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The civil law section was ranked 3rd in Canada among other civil law schools (the majority being in the province of Québec). [14] In 2019, the law school was ranked 5th in Canada according to University Magazine. [15]
Lakehead University, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law: Ontario (Thunder Bay) 2013 McGill University, Faculty of Law: Quebec 1968 Queen's University, Faculty of Law: Ontario 1957 Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law: British Columbia 2011 Toronto Metropolitan University, Lincoln Alexander School of Law: Ontario 2019
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 Parliament of Canada entered the field with the passage of the Business Profits War Tax Act, 1916 [17] (essentially a tax on larger businesses, chargeable on any accounting periods ending after 1914 and before 1918). [18] It was replaced in 1917 by the Income War Tax Act, 1917 [19] (covering personal and corporate income earned from 1917 ...
It followed many law schools in the United States, which had phased out the LLB over the 20th Century. The JD designation is intended to reflect the fact that the vast majority of the school's graduates enter the law school with at least one university degree. (In fact, approximately one quarter enter with one or more graduate degrees.)
The Revised Statutes of Ontario (RSO; Quebec French: Lois refondues de l'Ontario, LRO) is the name of several consolidations of public acts in the Canadian province of Ontario, promulgated approximately decennially from 1877 to 1990. [1] [2]
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 ...
It is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. A variety of J.D. LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available. The law school's alumni include three Canadian prime ministers, three Attorneys General, eight premiers of Ontario, four Mayors of Toronto, eleven Justices of the ...