University of Victoria Faculty of Law
| University of Victoria Faculty of Law | |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Let there be light" & "A multitude of the wise is the health of the world" |
| Established | 1975 |
| School type | Public |
| Parent endowment | $140.7 million |
| Dean | Jeremy Webber |
| Location | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Enrollment | 375 |
| Faculty | 62 |
| Website | www.law.uvic.ca |
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The University of Victoria Faculty of Law is a law school at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The school grants JD, LLM, and PhD degrees in law.
The school was consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in Canada by Canadian Lawyer Magazine's Report Card on Canadian Law Schools before the magazine reformed the report card to cease ranking schools, being ranked #1 in Canada for the years 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005.dead link:Maclean's 2013 ranking of Canadian common law schools placed the school seventh out of 16.
About 105 students are enrolled each year. The LSAT is required for admission to the school. 55% of the students are women, and 29% are visible minorities.
Additionally, the UVic Law School was also behind the first run of the Akitsiraq Law School, the only law school program to operate in Nunavut. The program involved University of Victoria professors spending rotating semesters in Iqaluit to teach a full curriculum of law school classes. The first run of the program graduated 11 Inuit lawyers in 2005, significantly increasing the number of lawyers in Nunavut.
The Environmental Law Centre, created in 1995, provides legal information and assistance to local, provincial and national environmental groups including the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, the David Suzuki Foundation, the West Coast Environmental Law and Probe International. On account of its focus on environmental law and sustainability issues, Uvic Law was ranked by Corporate Knights magazine as the second-best law school in Canada in terms of its integration of environmental and social issues into the law school experience.
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