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Lederman, William Ralph
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1916-1992
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William Ralph Lederman was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and educated at the University of Saskatchewan (LLB 1940), and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He made a name for himself as one of Canada's leading constitutional lawyers while teaching at Dalhousie University (1949-1958). In 1958, he was invited to become the first Dean of Law in the third iteration of Queen's University at Kingston's Faculty of Law, a post he held until 1968, He continued to teach in the Faculty until the 1980s. W.R. Lederman was constitutional adviser to then-Ontario Premier John Robarts, between 1965 and 1971, and was a mentor to many other constitutional scholars in Canada. William Ralph Lederman died in KIngston, in 1992.
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- English