Okay. I think the work in law is perhaps less relevant to the work of the committee than the second aspect of your question is, so let me be as brief as I can on the legal dimension.
My expertise, as I said, is in private law, comparative law, law of contracts, civil procedure, and law of wrongdoing, which is kind of remote from the conversation that we're having today, but nonetheless, as I mentioned, I have a significant interest in constitutional law. This was the focus of my graduate studies at Harvard Law School. I've kept up to date as much as I could, and also worked in some depth in constitutional law, in particular in my three years at the Supreme Court with Chief Justice McLachlin.
Very briefly, on the work of the dean and the ways in which this involves consideration of files, there are multiple aspects of academic life that require assessment of files, everything from admission of students to the process of promotion of professors and assessment of external institutions. Over the past seven years that I've been dean, I've assessed countless files with regard to promotion within my own faculty as well as several files from outside of my faculty. I've also done assessments and written letters of recommendation in a variety of contexts, both academic and professional. These were either to recommend university promotions and awards or to give professional recognition through such things as awarding the distinction of Advocatus Emeritus.