Hugh Kindred and the Teaching of International Law in Canada

The casebook, International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada under the general editorship of Hugh Kindred, which first appeared in 1987, was a milestone in the teaching of international law in Canada. It was an important teaching tool that made international law accessible to students. Seeing international law through the eyes of Canadian practice, Canadian materials and Canadian experience, the book was an introduction to the fundamentals of the field and to the developments and debates of contemporary international law. Engaging on the editorial board Canadian academics from different law schools, Hugh Kindred has been able to provide a book that over the years has become a mirror for understanding how Canadian international lawyers think about international law, as well as a basic introduction to some important Canadian international legal scholarship. Occupying a central position in the teaching of international law in Canada, the book is an important part of Hugh Kindred's legacy to the field of international law.Le recueil de jurisprudence International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada (Le droit international tel qu'il est interprete et applique au Canada,), sous la direction de Hugh Kindred, publie pour la premiere fois en 1987, est a bien des egards un incontournable dans l'enseignement du droit international au Canada. C'est un outil didactique important qui met le droit international a la portee des etudiants. Le livre place le droit international dans la perspective de la pratique au Canada, dans le contexte canadien et a la lumiere de l'experience canadienne, et il presente les elements fondamentaux du domaine ainsi que les developpements et les debats du droit international contemporain. Faisant appel, pour composer le comite de redaction, a des universitaires canadiens de differentes facultes de droit, Hugh Kindred a pu offrir un ouvrage qui, au fil des ans, est devenu essentiel pour comprendre comment les avocats canadiens qui pratiquent le droit international pensent au droit international; il sert aussi d'introduction a d'importantes recherches en droit international au Canada. Le livre occupe une place centrale dans l'enseignement du droit international au Canada; c'est une importante partie de l'heritage que laisse Hugh Kindred au domaine du droit international.In 1969, two graduate students met at a function at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. One was studying at Cambridge and the other at the University of London. Apart from the fact that they were both studying international law what they had in common was that they were both going to the United States the following year to further their studies. It was a chance encounter and something that was unlikely to be repeated. Yet, barely three years later, in 1972, they met again, in Ottawa at the first annual conference of the new Canadian Council on International Law. By this time, Hugh Kindred was teaching at Dalhousie Law School and I was teaching at the University of British Columbia.In short, after our studies in the United States, both Hugh Kindred and I ended up teaching international law in Canada where we have both remained and continued our careers in the field of international law. Thus, our acquaintance and professional association go a long way back, and they have continued through regular meetings at the annual conferences of the Canadian Council of International Law, at law of the sea meetings in Halifax and elsewhere, and through work on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law. Our common interest in the law of the sea has made that association closer, although we have never taught at the same institution or collaborated in common research endeavours.Hugh Kindred and I arrived in Canada on the eve of an explosion in legal teaching and scholarship in common law Canada. At that time there was not the range of either casebooks or monographs focusing on Canadian statute law and judicial decisions that one finds today, and English or American materials were often used in classrooms. …

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