Osgoode Hall Law School
Faculty Abbreviation
LW
Faculty Description
Our three-year Juris Doctor (JD) program provides a rich, innovative and interdisciplinary experience that exposes our students to a broad array of perspectives. Throughout our curriculum, theory is integrated with practice, so students can build upon a solid foundation in legal reasoning with hands-on experience in putting that reasoning to work. Our full-time professors and part-time faculty of practising lawyers and judges are the country’s top legal thinkers. We prepare our students to enter the legal profession with a unique combination of thoughtful and practical skills.
Programs Unique to Osgoode:
- Osgoode Public Interest Requirement, which emphasizes the importance of community service
- Requirement that at least one course/program has an experiential component
- 18 clinical and intensive programs including our student-staffed legal aid clinic
- World-class legal research centres
Joint & Combined Degree Programs:
- JD/MBA with Schulich School of Business
- JD/MES with the Faculty of Environmental Studies
- JD/MA (Philosophy) with the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
- JD/BCL with the Université de Montréal
Faculty Machine Name
osgoode
Faculty URL
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