University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law
| University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law | |
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Ludlow Hall
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| Established | 1892 |
| School type | Public |
| Location | Fredericton, NB, Canada |
| Enrollment | 258 |
| Faculty | 35 |
| Website | http://law.unb.ca |
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The University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law is the second oldest university-based common law Faculty in the Commonwealth. It is located in New Brunswick's capital city, Fredericton, and is one of two law schools located in the province, the other being the French language Faculty at l'Université de Moncton.
The current Dean of the Faculty is Prof. John R. Williamson. Former Justice of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, Hon. Joseph T. Robertson is the Jurist in Residence.
The UNB Faculty of Law is housed in Ludlow Hall, which was built in 1968. The hall is named after George Duncan Ludlow, the first Chief Justice of New Brunswick.
In 1892, the King's College Law School was established in Saint John, New Brunswick, in the Provincial Building at the intersection of Princess Street and Canterbury Street in the city's central business district. This building housed the offices of various Provincial civil servants as well as the Saint John Law Society. The parent institution of the King's College Law School was King's College, which was located at that time in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Windsor, a port located on the Bay of Fundy, had developed strong commercial connections with Saint John during the 19th century.
In 1912, the King's College Law School entered into a partnership with the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, whereby undergraduates in arts at UNB became able to take first-year law courses on the campus in Fredericton. A disastrous fire swept through the King's College campus in Windsor on February 3, 1920, placing the future of the institution in doubt. An offer by the Carnegie Foundation to fund moving King's College from Windsor to Halifax, where it would be located adjacent to and integrated with Dalhousie University, was accepted in 1922; as a result, King's College was renamed as the University of King's College.
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