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JU
LY/AUGUST
1991
International Award
for J ohn F. Buckley
Each year the American Law
Institute-American Bar Association
Committee on Continuing Pro-
fessional Education invites nomina-
tions for the FRANCIS RAWLE
AWARD for outstanding contribu-
tions in the field of post-admission
legal education. The award, named
in honour of a former ABA
President, is a highly prestigious
one. It includes a purse of $2,500
and an inscribed medallion plaque
and is publicly and formally an-
nounced at the Annual ALI-ABA
Luncheon for its authors and
lecturers, this year to be held on the
11th August 1991 during the ABA's
annual meeting in Atlanta.
The
Gazette
is proud to an-
nounce that this year John F.
Buckley, long-term Chairman of the
Society's Continuing Legal Edu-
cation Sub-Committee and,
inter
alia,
a member of the Gazette
Editorial Board, is to be the
recipient of the award. Enhancing
the honour done to John Buckley is
the fact that this is the first time
the award has been made to
someone from outside the United
States.
In the joint written nomination of
Professor L.G. Sweeney, Director of
Training in the Society's Law
School, and of Mr. Frank Harris,
Director of Minnesota State Bar
Continuing Legal Education, (the
latter having worked with him in a
number of the areas addressed in
the nomination), John's work was
considered in the four phases of
post-admission legal endeavour
wh i ch fell to be addressed:
publishing, lecturing, programme
creation and administration. John's
record allowed wide scope for
elaboration of the major contri-
bution he has made in all four
spheres, not only nationally but
with a substantial international
dimension.
Included in the nomination are
references to the following:-
1. In publishing, John Buckley's
work on the Publications
Committee of the Law Society
in addressing the problem of the
absence of Irish texts on Irish
Law and his work as Section
Publications Officer and Chair-
man of General Practice Section
of the International Bar
Association;
2. In lecturing, his period of office
as Lecturer in Conveyancing
and Land Law to the Society in
the decade up to 1972, his
contributions to C.L.E. pro-
grammes in the areas of
Commercial Property Law and
Arbitration and Defamation, in
particular, his major address to
the Joint Conference held in
Washington in July 1985 bet-
ween the Association for
Continuing Legal Education
Administrators and the IBA.
That conference was designed
to merge the interest and
resources of continuing legal
education and the schools of
applied law in the common-law
countries of the world in
addressing the most difficult
and challenging of all the
aspects of continuing legal
education-skills training. The
Washington conference is be-
lieved to have had a major effect
in increasing the emphasis on
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