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From humble beginnings in 1848. Although informal law lectures were being held at McGill College as early as 1829, the oldest law faculty in Canada wasn't officially created until 1848, as a response to a petition from 23 young men who had been studying independently for the Quebec Bar, and wanted their work rewarded with a formal legal degree.
The Faculty of Lawis one of the professional graduate schoolsof McGill Universityin Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada. 180 candidates are admitted for any given academic year. For the year 2021 class, the acceptance rate was 10%.
Dean Badgley – Law’s First Dean. William Badgley (D.C.L. 1843), a prominent Montreal lawyer, was appointed as the first lecturer of law at McGill in 1844. In 1846, he became a full professor and in 1853, with the establishment of the Law Faculty, he became the first Dean. Badgley authored the pamphlet Representation against the title of the ...
Law at McGill: Past, Present and Future Stanley Frost* and David L. Johnston** Introduction The senior professional schools at McGill University are those of medicine and law. Teaching in medicine commenced at the Montreal Medical Institution in 1823 and the McGill Faculty of Medicine was established in 1829. Legal education did not get its start … Continued
Feb 5, 2012 · In many other ways the Québec schools have gone through the same experiences and problems as the common-law schools. The first faculty of law in Canada was established in 1853 at McGill, which now gives a common law as well as a civil law degree (as does U of O). Laval's law faculty was founded in 1854 and that of U de M is over 100 years old.
The period of 1953-1967 was a time of seminal change and advancement, during which the McGill Faculty of Law achieved many firsts for Quebec and for Canada. F.R. Scott led the first successful lawsuit against a sitting head of government at the Supreme Court of Canada; Marie-Claire Kirkland became the first woman elected to the […]
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Feb 24, 2014 · John Hobbins (BA’66, MLS’68), who retired in 2009 as Head Librarian of the Nahum Gelber Law Library, drew on his original research into the history of McGill’s Faculty of Law to deliver a definitive account of its origins as the first university-based Faculty of Law in Canada. He took evident delight in communicating outrageous quotations ...
