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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%.
Université de Montréal, Faculty of Law. Complete an additional year at Osgoode Hall Law School to earn a JD in common law. University of Montreal has its own JD program that can be taken in the third year of the LL.B. studies. Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Law. Complete an additional year to earn a JD in common law and transnational law
For nearly 60 years [when?], the Faculty has published the Revue Juridique Thémis de l'Université de Montréal which was ranked by the Washington and Lee University School of Law as Canada's first primarily French-speaking journal, along with the University of Toronto Law Journal for English-speaking Canada and the Harvard Law Review for the United States.
The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, branded as Western Law since 2011, [2] is the law school of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.Founded in 1959, its first Dean was former Supreme Court of Canada justice, the Honourable Ivan Cleveland Rand, who saw the school as developing "in the minds of its students the habit of thinking in terms of the dynamic tradition, in the ...
Each year approximately 250 law students from the Faculty of Law volunteer with Student Legal Services, a student-managed, non-profit society dedicated to helping low income individuals with legal issues in the Edmonton area. Student Legal Services was founded in 1969 and is one of the largest legal clinics in Canada. [18]
The Faculty of Law has, by far, the highest tuition fees of any law school in Canada. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] It also has a financial aid program, which 48% of students qualified for in 2015-2016, with the average first-year student who qualified for aid receiving a $9,132 bursary.
Maclean's magazine last released its annual law school ranking on September 19, 2013, and has not released any rankings for law schools since then. In that evaluation, Ottawa's common law program was ranked 10th overall in Canada, scoring particularly well (3rd overall) in the category for Supreme Court clerkships. [13]
TRU Faculty of Law officially opened to students on September 6, 2011, with a first year class of 75 students and 10 faculty members. [1] The ceremonial opening was attended by several dignitaries, including the Honourable Chief Justice Lance Finch, former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, Q.C., and CBA BC Chapter President Sharon Matthews, among many others.