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Robert Sharpe was a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1999 to 2020 and is currently Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence at the Faculty of Law. He graduated with the degrees of BA (University of Western Ontario, 1966), LLB (University of Toronto, 1970) and DPhil (Oxford University, 1974). He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1974 and practised with MacKinnon McTaggart (later McTaggart Potts) in the area of civil litigation.

In 1949, the establishment of the modern Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, under the leadership of Dean Cecil “Caesar” Wright, marked a transformative moment in legal education in Ontario.

When I first shared my goal of meeting 75 lawyers, I was balancing several new challenges. I had just started as a research assistant, was working part-time at a law firm and was adjusting to the pace of the Global Professional Master of Laws program.