Seventy-five years of legal education and scholarship at the ‘modern’ Faculty of Law

This is an introduction to ‘Looking Forward by Looking Back,’ a special issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal dedicated to the proceedings of a conference celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The introduction begins by reviewing Cecil A ‘Caesar’ Wright’s writings about the nature and purpose of a modern law school and, following the issue’s themes, suggesting how looking back to Wright’s insights can help us look forward to the future of legal education. Following this, we briefly introduce each of the other articles in the special issue

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