William Ralph Lederman, (January 6, 1916 – July 26, 1992) was a

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constitutional scholar and the first dean of

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. Born in

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, he received a LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1940. He served in the Royal Canadian Artillery from 1941 to 1945, serving with a light anti-aircraft regiment in the United Kingdom and Northwest Europe. He was a

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and a Vinerian Scholar where he received a B.C.L. From 1949 to 1958 he taught at

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. In 1958, he became the first Dean of the

. He was in this post until 1968 and continued to teach in the faculty until the 1980s. He was constitutional adviser to Ontario Premier

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between 1965 and 1971. In 1981, he was made an Officer of the

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