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Students in the National Program pay $10,077.70 for their extra year of study. [11] Students enrolled in the Dual J.D. program with an American law school pay what the University of Ottawa has termed "regular Canadian law student rates during the entire program," meaning the regular common law tuition fees at the school.
Prior to getting called to the bar in one of Canada's provinces or territories, degree-holders must complete bar exams and articling terms (professional apprenticeships with practising lawyers) or the equivalent thereof. [6] For graduate academic study in law, the master's level designation is the Master of Laws (LL.M., Legum Magister in Latin).
The Faculty offers four LLM programs for students: one general LLM program, and three specialized LLM programs in Air and Space Law, Environment, and Bioethics. Except for the LLM Bioethics program, all programs have thesis and non-thesis options. [10] The non-thesis Master's of Law option prioritizes course work and can be completed in twelve ...
Following a multi-year effort spearheaded by John Borrows and Val Napoleon, the Faculty became the first law school in Canada to offer a program which integrates a study of the Canadian common law and of indigenous legal traditions. The Joint Juris Doctor and Juris Indigenarum Doctor (JD/JID) program admitted its first cohort in the fall of 2018.
Louis LeBel (LLM 1966) - Puisne Justice of Supreme Court of Canada, (2000–2014) Rosalie Silberman Abella (1970) - Puisne Justice of Supreme Court of Canada (2004–2021) Michael J. Moldaver (1971) - Puisne Justice of Supreme Court of Canada (2011–2022) Russell Brown (2003) - Puisne Justice of Supreme Court of Canada (2015–2023)
A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: Magister Legum or Legum Magister) is a postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in another subject.
After completing the Juris Doctor (J.D.), a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), or a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), students must article for about a year (in Quebec, the six-month stage is the equivalent to articling); this can be a challenge for those with lower grades, as there are often a shortage of articling positions, and completion of articles ...
The Schulich School of Law is the law school of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1883 as Dalhousie Law School, it is the oldest university-based common law school in Canada. [2] It adopted its current name in October 2009 after receiving a $20-million endowment from Canadian businessman and philanthropist Seymour ...