THE WELDON TIMES

Each year, law students across the country suit up, polish their resumes, and enter one of the most intense processes of their legal careers. This article offers steps and advice on how to make the most of your recruit process from those who have learned firsthand. 

Come with me to the Halifax Brewery Market Saturday morning. Farmers, bakers, florists, and crafters, painters, makers, chefs, and baristas – rain or shine, year after year – travel with their vans packed to the brim before dawn from The Valley and South Shore and set up on Lower Water Street to prepare displays that charm eyes and satiate curious tastes.

Few students know the Weldon Law Building’s namesake, but his legacy continues to echo through our halls through the Weldon Tradition of unselfish public service and, of course, The Weldon Times. The latter was founded in 1975 – or so we thought. Until last year, the thick fog of time enshrouded The Weldon Times’ beginning. A light pierced through, and that light was Doug Shatford. He reached out, we were dazzled, and he (quite humbly) allowed me to interview him on his ex

You have really done it this time. After trash-talking beekeeping on social media again, you received a stern e-mail from Dean Harding summoning you to her office. Resigned to your fate, you close your eyes, take a deep breath, and softly open her door. If you don't complete this chess puzzle you could end up killed – or worse, expelled.

Intrepid connoisseur, Nicole McLuhan, details her summer journey across the Halifax hot dog landscape. Ten dogs, all alike in company, In fair Halagonia, where we lay our scene, From ancient goal break to new glizzy-dom, Where hot dog stuff makes civil hands unclean.

Early on, I decided, “I would never pursue law.”    That is what I would tell my mom anytime she floated the idea of me becoming a...

For this Retrograde edition of The Weldon Times, Weird Weldon is jumping back in time to a pre-Charter criminal case involving a hypnotic police interrogation. Although once a genuine concern, Canadians no longer have to worry about resisting against subliminal manipulation from the police (see R v Trochym, 2007 SCC 6).

When I was eight, university felt impossibly far away. As a kid, just a week felt like a year. But as the weeks turned into months, and months into years, my undergrad came and went in a flash. So much life happens between point A and point B, and yet we look back and wonder how things flew by so quickly. Even during undergrad, the idea of being a working lawyer felt like a lifetime away.

Climate change has been a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads for over 40 years now. The changes predicted in the late 1970s are materializing at home and in remote areas of the world. One of the most notably impacted regions is the Arctic. The melting of glaciers, disappearance of polar caps, and recession of perma-ice have wreaked havoc on the lives of animals and plants inhabiting the North. Unfortunately, new challenges have arisen.

As we step into the new academic year, I am thrilled to welcome both new and returning students to our law school community. To the incoming class of 2028, huge congratulations and welcome! You are about to begin an incredibly exciting and transformative journey. Law school will challenge you in ways you may not yet expect.

Welcome to a new year at Weldon and another year of Domus! Domus Legis has been part of Dal Law since 1965, and I’m so excited for what the Domus executives have in the works for our 51st year. You can expect the classic events we all know and love, but we’re also adding new themes and venues to make the 2025/2026 year unforgettable.

Who better to pen a few words on a theme about the past than a dean whose history with this law school dates back to the 1980s? I’m always shocked to learn that fashions from the 80s and 90s are retro. Personally, I can’t imagine returning to padded shoulders and puffy hair. Aside from fashion – a subject on which no one would trust me – but in line with the theme of looking back, readers might be interested to learn more.