The Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba was created as a vehicle within the Faculty of Law to aid in the scholarly mission of the University to create, preserve and communicate knowledge. While the Institute’s home is the Faculty of Law, it is also an organization with a mandate to serve all scholars engaged in legal research at the University, and the Institute reports to the Senate Committee on Institutes and Inter disciplinary Research Groups. The work of the LRI is divided into two categories. First, the LRI directly engages in various research projects, holds seminars and conferences, and undertakes various publications. Secondly, the LRI also receives grant applications from individual professors and graduate students, mostly from the Faculty of Law, and supports projects by granting funds, most often to hire research students to aid in the projects.