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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.
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%
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]
According to the Faculty of Law LSAC page, the English-language common law program received 2637 applications in 2019, of which 320 were admitted; an admission rate of 12%. The French-language common law program, including the Programme de droit canadien , received 185 applications in 2019, of which 80 were admitted.
It also publishes the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, the standard reference work for almost all Canadian law reviews, Canadian law schools, and courts. The McGill University Faculty of Law has consistently placed as the top ranking law school in Canada and has the highest acceptance requirements.
The law school traces its origins back to the 1820s, and it counts the first Canadian prime minister (Sir John A. Macdonald) among its graduates. [5] It was reorganized in 1889, and the Law Society of Upper Canada permanently established the law school on the site now known as Osgoode Hall . [ 5 ]
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%.
The LSAT is required for admission to the school. 55% of the students are women, [4] and 29% are visible minorities. [5] Additionally, the UVic Law School was also behind the first run of the Akitsiraq Law School, the only law school program to operate in Nunavut. The program involved University of Victoria professors spending rotating ...