The University of Toronto Faculty of Law (U of T Law, UToronto Law, or Toronto Law) is the law school of the University of Toronto. Originally founded in 1887, the Faculty is one of the oldest law faculties in Canada, although it was not until 1958 that the faculty was officially recognized as an accredited institution by the Law Society of Upper Canada. The modern law school was reborn in 1949, thereby ending the Law Society of Upper Canada's monopoly on legal education in the Province of Ontario. The Faculty of Law is particularly renowned in the areas of corporate law, international law, law and economics, and legal theory.The law school has been ranked the first law school in Canada by Maclean's for every year in which the magazine has published law school rankings, which started in 2007. The median undergraduate GPA of students accepted into the J.D. program is 3.9, and the median Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score is 168 (96th percentile), making the law school the most selective in Canada, and one of the most selective in North America. It is the only Canadian law school regarded as among the American Top 14 law schools, being one of the only law schools that top American global law firms hire from outside of the US. It has an acceptance rate of 13.5% and a yield rate of 70.1%, making it more selective and chosen than Harvard Law School and second only to Yale Law School in North America. The Faculty of Law offers its students Canada's most extensive internship program in pro bono work and international human rights law, and supports a range of legal clinics staffed by students as well as practitioners.The Faculty of Law has close to 60 full-time faculty members, and 600 undergraduate and graduate students, giving it a student-faculty ratio of approximately 10:1, "the best in North America, matched only by Yale". Its "Distinguished Visitors" program brings 15-25 short-term visiting professors from the world's leading law schools to teach at the school each year. For 2012-13, visiting professors include: Zhenmin Wang, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tsinghua University; Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel; and David M. Malone, former Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations.The Faculty of Law lies at the geographic centre of the University of Toronto. It is located at the corner of Queen's Park Crescent and Hoskin Avenue, south of the Royal Ontario Museum and slightly north of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.Among its alumni are two Canadian Prime Ministers, three leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada, three Chiefs of Staff to the Prime Minister, two Premiers of Ontario, two Mayors of Toronto, and seven Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, including three of the nine currently-sitting Justices (Louis LeBel, Rosalie Abella, and Michael J. Moldaver).The current Dean of the Faculty of Law is Professor Mayo Moran, who was reappointed for a second five-year term as Dean beginning January 2011. Dean Moran announced that she would be leaving the office of Dean of Toronto Law School on April 30, 2014 and would be taking up the office of Provost of Trinity College, Toronto on July 1, 2014. Jutta Brunnee was appointed Interim Dean and will take over on May 1, 2014 until April 30, 2015 or until the appointment of the new Dean.
Endowment ($)
6.8E7
Faculty size
160
Number of students
640
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