Bernard Hibbitts

Bernard J. Hibbitts is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and publisher currently teaching in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Originally trained as a legal historian whose McLuhanistic 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, the Webby 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 Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for the late Justice Gerald Le Dain, Hibbitts is a graduate in law of Oxford University (B.A. Juris 1983), Dalhousie University (LL.B. 1984), the University of Toronto (LL.M. 1986), and the Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1988). In 1995 he received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, the University of Pittsburgh'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 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hibbitts was a member of the 1975 Canadian national championship team on Reach for the Top, 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 in 1983.

External links

* [http://www.law.pitt.edu/faculty/profiles/hibbittsbj Bernard Hibbitts website]
* [http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/ctos.htm Coming to Our Senses: Communication and Legal Expression in Performance Cultures] , "Emory Law Journal" (1992)
* [http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/ctos.htm Making Sense of Metaphors: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse] , "Cardozo Law Review" (1994)
* [http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/lastrev.htm Last Writes? Re-assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace] (1996)
* [http://www.uakron.edu/law/lawreview/w96v30n2.php Symposium Issue on "Last Writes?"] "Akron Law Review" (1996)
* [http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/akron.htm Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes and the Demise of Law Reviews] "Akron Law Review" (1996)
* [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_7/hibbitts/index.html E-Journals, Archives and Knowledge Networks] "First Monday" (1997)
* [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/17.2/hibbitts.html Changing Our Minds: Legal History Meets the World Wide Web] "Law & History Review" (1997)
* [http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1032128570565 Innovative Instruction] , "National Law Journal" (2002)
* [http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ JURIST]
* [http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/lisa.htm 'Unconventional' Methods Earn Hibbitts University Teaching Award] University of Pittsburgh School of Law "Law Notes" (1995)
* [http://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/summer2006/feature2.html The People's Law] , "Pitt Magazine" (2006)
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/information/internet-publishing-broadcasting/4090967-1.html Interview with Bernard Hibbitts] , "Information Today" (2006)