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Bernard J. Hibbitts is a Canadian
Canada
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 lawyer
Lawyer
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, professor
Professor
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, and publisher currently teaching in the United States
United States
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 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law was founded in 1895, and became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900...

. Originally trained as a legal historian
Legal history
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 whose McLuhanistic
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...

 early work focused on the historical relationship between law, media and the senses, he wrote a series of controversial articles in the mid-1990s on the future of law reviews and scholarly publishing in the then-just-emerging age of the Internet. He is best known today as the founder and publisher of JURIST
JURIST
JURIST is an online legal news service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, powered by a staff of more than 40 law students working in Pittsburgh and other US locations under the direction of founding Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Professor Bernard Hibbitts, Research Director Jaclyn...

, the Webby
Webby Awards
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 award-winning online legal news service, established in 1996. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of JURIST Legal News and Research Services, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

A Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk
Law clerk
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 at the Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court of Canada
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 for the late Justice Gerald Le Dain
Gerald Le Dain
Gerald Eric Le Dain, CC was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who sat on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1984 to 1988....

, Hibbitts is a graduate in law of University College, Oxford
University College, Oxford
.University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...

 (B.A. Jurisprudence 1983), Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...

 (LL.B. 1984), the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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 (LL.M. 1986), and the Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
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 (LL.M. 1988). In 1995 he received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
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's highest teaching honor. His work has been printed in the New York University Law Review, the McGill Law Journal, Law & History Review, American Ethnologist, and Wired Magazine.

Representing Queen Elizabeth High School
Queen Elizabeth High School (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Queen Elizabeth High School was established in September 1942, at the corner of Bell Road and Robie Street, on Camp Hill, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "QEH" was always known for its high academic standards, competitive sports teams and distinguished extra-curricular activities such as the annual Model...

 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
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, Hibbitts was a member of the 1975 Canadian national championship team on Reach for the Top
Reach for the Top
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, the long-running CBC-TV high school quiz show. He received the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award as goaltender for the Oxford Blues ice hockey team
Oxford University Ice Hockey Club
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 in 1983.

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