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The Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval is the law school of Université Laval.Founded in 1852, it is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in North America.It hosts more than 1,000 students in its curriculum of first, second, and third years, with more than 45 lecturers teaching and supervising research projects in most areas of law.
A loophole in provincial law was discovered by René Arseneault after he, in 1992, opposed taking the oath before being admitted to the bar. He argued successfully in court that the law did not permit the Court of Appeal to refuse his application to the Law Society until he recited the oath.
In 2018, the Faculty was ranked by Times Higher Education as the best francophone law school in the world [1]. In addition to its civil law degree , the Law School offers a one-year J.D. in common law for Quebec civil law graduates that enables them to take the bar exam in other Canadian provinces and in New York, Massachusetts and California.
Prior to 1947, Canadian law continued to refer to Canadian nationals as British subjects, [4] despite the country becoming independent from the United Kingdom in 1931. As the country shared the same person as its sovereign with the other countries of the Commonwealth, people immigrating from those states were not required to recite any oath upon immigration to Canada; those coming from a non ...
After 1867, the Parliament of Canada acquired exclusive jurisdiction over the criminal law, [2] including the law of bail. The first major federal legislation with respect to bail was included in the criminal legislation package of 1869. [3] [4] In that law, the federal government made bail discretionary for all offences. [5]
Admission requirements to law school vary between those of common law jurisdictions, which comprise all but one of Canada's provinces and territories, and the province of Quebec, which is a civil law jurisdiction. For common law schools, students must have already completed an undergraduate degree before being admitted to an LLB or JD programme ...
Quebec law schools, including the dual-curriculum, bilingual McGill University Faculty of Law, do not require applicants to write the LSAT, although any scores are generally taken into account; nor do the French-language common-law programs at the Université de Moncton École de droit and University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. All of Canada's ...
On January 12, 2016, the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law announced Angelique EagleWoman, an Indigenous law scholar, as the new Dean of Law. [4] [7] Her tenure, which began in May 2016, made her the first Indigenous law dean in Canada. In April 2018, EagleWoman decided to resign her position by June 2018, citing systemic racism in the law school.