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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]
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]
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.
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
In 1985, the school merged with the San Fernando Valley College of Law; [6] however, the two operated as independent entities within the University of La Verne until 2002, when the University of West Los Angeles purchased the San Fernando Valley College of Law campus. [7] In 2001, the law school relocated to Ontario, California. [8]
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 modern law school was founded in 1957 with James Corry, Stuart Ryan and Daniel Soberman as the founding members of the faculty. In 1958, William Lederman, the pre-eminent constitutional law scholar of his era, became the first dean of the new law school.
Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 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.