Precedent and Place: Envisioning a New Home for the Lincoln Alexander School of Law
- Date
- September 25, 2025
- Time
- 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
What do the physical spaces of law school reveal about the priorities and purposes of legal education? What does a law school building communicate about law and what it means to be a lawyer? In this talk, Professor David Sandomierski will draw on his interdisciplinary research on the architecture of law schools to discuss how North American law school buildings convey a range of ideas, and will suggest how the Lincoln Alexander School of Law community can learn from these precedents to envision its new home at 277 Victoria Street.
Dr. David Sandomierski is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University, a Teaching Fellow at Western University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College. He holds an SJD from the University of Toronto, where his doctoral dissertation received the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal. He also holds degrees in civil and common law from McGill University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal. In 2008-09 he served as law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin. Dr. Sandomierski's book, Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education, examines the relationship between realism and formalism, and theory and practice, in contemporary legal education. His research focuses on the role that law schools play in cultivating critical and engaged citizens.