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The University of Calgary Faculty of Law, at the University of Calgary (U of C). is a law school in Calgary, Alberta. UCalgary Law has approximately 31 full-time faculty and 400 students in the JD program. With 130 first year spots and approximately 1,300 applicants per year, this law school has an acceptance rate of less than 10%
York University, Osgoode Hall Law School. Complete an additional year at Université de Montréal, Faculty of Law to earn a B.C.L. in civil law. University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. Complete 3 years through the Canadian Law Program (PDC Programme de droit canadien) to earn a common-law (JD) and civil (LL.L.) simultaneously.
Admissions to the Faculty of Law have become increasingly more competitive in recent years as the profile of the school has expanded and as more students seek application to Canadian law schools. Each year around 2000 applications for the J.D. program at Windsor Law are received for the 165 places in the first-year class, an acceptance rate of 8%.
In 2018, the Times Higher Education ranked the Faculty the 10th best law school in the world. [18] In 2022, the Times Higher Education ranked the Faculty the 16th best law school in the world. [19] The Faculty of Law has high admission criteria with an acceptance rate of 13.5% and a yield rate of 70.1% for 2011–12. [20]
In 2023, both QS World and Times Higher Education ranked Allard the second-best common law school in the Canada, ranking behind only the University of Toronto. [12] Academically, the school is amongst the most selective in the nation, with a median LSAT score of 166, or the 91st percentile, for the entering class of 2022. [13]
Law school GPA curve University of Akron School of Law: 3.0 first year, 3.1 upper years. [2] University of Alabama School of Law: 3.20 [3] Albany Law School: 3.0 [4] American University Washington College of Law: No mandatory curve; 3.1 to 3.3 mean for 1L courses, except First-Year Rhetoric. 3.25 to 3.45 mean for most upper-level courses. [5]
Gerald Lebovits, New York City Civil Court judge, law professor at Columbia Law School, Fordham University School of Law & NYU School of Law (LL.L '79) Lise Maisonneuve, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice (LL.B '89) Marc Noël, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal (Canada) (LL.L '74; LL.B '75)
The alumni from McGill University's law school consist of a diverse group of distinguished leaders on a global scale. It has historically placed in the top ~20 law schools globally on multiple ranking systems. [46] It was recently ranked the 22nd best law school worldwide in the 2019 QS World Ranking. [46]