Building Justice

Shauna Van Praagh is a professor of law at McGill University where she has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in Law. She is an active member of several transdisciplinary research teams and centres at McGill and Université de Montréal and has taught as a visitor at Hebrew University and the University of Barcelona. She is a past recipient of McGill’s John W. Durnford Prize for Teaching Excellence and has served as President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers.

"Few are the justices of a nation’s highest court whose most significant work is done after they leave the bench. Fewer still are those magnanimous enough not to seek credit for it. Justice Frank Iacobucci, the man whose labors were instrumental to the creation of Canada’s newest federal holiday—National Day for Truth and Reconciliation— is such an individual, Shauna Van Praagh tells us in this biography.Van Praagh, who considers Justice Iacobucci a consummate mentor in her life, infuses the book with many stories told—and, crucially, retold—by and about her subject both to bring us into particular conversations and to try to immortalize his perspectives and experiences." - Charles Bartlett, University of Miami (Italian Americana)

• Prologue: Foot Fragments and the CathedralPart I. Cutting Stone: Welcome to Law1. The Dean’s Speech2. Frank’s Facts3. Prelude to a Legal Education: Frank’s Stories4. Law School5. Legal Education ContinuedPart II. Five Dollars a Day: Lawyering in the World6. Farewell to Law School7. You Will Keep Learning: Frank Iacobucci and the Law of Corporations8. You Will Lead: Frank Iacobucci as Playmaker9. You Will Pursue Justice: Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court10. Less than Five Dollars a Day: Nancy Iacobucci as Lawyer11. Beyond the CourtPart III. Building a Cathedral: Called to Action12. The Third Worker13. The Law Class Reunion14. Cathedral as Project: Residential Schools and Reconciliation15. Cathedral as Congregation: Mentorship and the Extended Family16. Cathedral as Identity: Community and Belonging17. Individuals and the Cathedral: The Maker’s MarkEpilogue: The Work of Building and the Journey of Justice