Manitoba Law Journal

In 1999, a gift to the University of Manitoba created the Asper Chair in International Business and Trade Law in the Faculty of Law. From the beginning, there was a commitment to have the Chair provide an outlet for research within its mandate. From the year 2000 forward, the Asper Chair has done this through the vehicle of the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. For the first 22 years of its existence, the Asper Review functioned independently of any other publication, both in the Faculty of Law and elsewhere, under the editorship of Dr. Bryan Schwartz. While, in later years, others would share the title of Co-Editor-inChief, Dr. Schwartz, as the Asper Chair throughout, has been the driving force behind the Asper Review since its inception, and remains so today.