University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
| Motto | Latin: Fiat justitia ruat coelum |
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Motto in English
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Let justice be done though the heavens fall |
| Type | Public Law School |
| Dean | Catherine Dauvergne |
| Students | 600 (2013) |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
The Peter A. Allard School of Law is the law school of the University of British Columbia. It offers a three-year Juris Doctor (JD) program and the graduate degrees of Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Laws Common Law (LLMCL) and doctorate (PhD) degrees. Among other things, the faculty has courses emphasizing Pacific Rim issues, business law, tax law, environmental and natural resource law, indigenous law, and feminist law. It was renamed from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 2015 to honor a $30M gift from Peter Allard, an alumnus, which followed a 2011 gift from him of about $12M.
UBC offered lectures in law from 1920, but the university's faculty of law was established in 1945, and was served by George F. Curtis (1906-2005) as the founding dean until he retired in 1971. Because it lacked adequate infrastructure, the law school used army huts from World War II until a permanent structure was built in 1951, which was named after Curtis. It was replaced by Allard Hall in 2009. In recognition of a donation from UBC law alumnus Peter A. Allard, the law school was renamed the Peter A. Allard School of Law on January 22, 2015; it had been known as the "University of British Columbia Faculty of Law".
The school was ranked 3rd in Canada and 31st in the world in the 2016 QS World University Rankings of law schools. It was fifth among Canadian law schools in Maclean's 2013 rankings.
The school is located at the University of British Columbia's campus near Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2011 it moved out of its former building, a brutalist-style building with malfunctioning heating and cooling and into a new building that had recently been completed. The building cost around $56M; the university used $21M of its own funds and the rest came from donations, including $12M from The Law Foundation of B.C. In 2011 shortly before students and faculty began moving in, Peter Allard, an alumnus, donated about $12 million to the school, with about $10M of it going to complete the capital campaign; the building was named after him.
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