Mandate
The Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba came into existence by joint action of the Law Faculty Council and the University Senate and Board of Governors in the spring of 1968. The Institute was created upon the recommendation of a special committee which included members representing the Faculty of Law, the Government of Manitoba and the Law Society of Manitoba.
The Institute was created as a vehicle within the Faculty of Law to aid in the scholarly mission of the University to create, preserve and communicate knowledge. While the Institute's home is the Faculty of Law, it is also an organization with a mandate to serve all scholars engaged in legal research at the University, and the Institute reports to the Senate Committee on Institutes and Inter disciplinary Research Groups. Specifically, the Institute was created:
- to stimulate and facilitate legal research by academic staff at the Faculty of Law and within the University generally;
- to facilitate interdisciplinary contacts;
- to obtain research funding
- to undertake research on commission for any provincial or national law reform commissions;
- to coordinate the hiring of research assistants for projects;
- to sponsor conferences, workshops and seminars on legal topics;
- to communicate research results by way of publication of papers and texts;
- to give publicity to the research activity of academic staff.
The work of the LRI is divided into two categories. First, the LRI directly engages in various research projects, holds seminars and conferences, and undertakes various publications. Secondly, the LRI also receives grant applications from individual professors and graduate students, mostly from the Faculty of Law, and supports projects by granting funds, most often to hire research students to aid in the projects. Scholars at the University of Manitoba who are engaged in research relevent to law are encouraged to contact Michelle Gallant, Director of the LRI for application forms for grants from the LRI. The LRI receives an annual operating grant from the Manitoba Law Foundation.
LRI Board
