Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of

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, Ontario, Canada. The law school is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the '' Osgoode Hall Law Journal''. A variety of LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available. Its alumni include two Canadian prime ministers, eight premiers of Ontario, and ten

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of the Supreme Court of Canada, four of whom were Chief Justices. The current dean of the law school is Mary Condon.

History

Osgoode Hall was named for

William Osgoode William Osgoode (March 1754 – January 17, 1824) was the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada (now known as Ontario, Canada). Life and career He was born William Osgood in London, England, in 1754 to William Osgood (died 1767). His family wa ...

, an

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graduate and barrister of Lincoln's Inn who was the first to serve as the chief justice of

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. Osgoode Hall can trace its history back to the 1820s, and count the first Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald among its graduates. In 1889, it was reorganized and the Law Society of Upper Canada permanently established the Law School on the site now known as

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. At the time, Osgoode Hall was the only law school in Ontario and this remained true until the establishment of the

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in 1949. Ontario lawyers were originally required to attend Osgoode Hall in order to practise in the province. The Law Society began requiring members to attend lectures given at

(the building) in 1855. In 1862, a law school opened in that building, only to close in 1868. It frequently opened and closed throughout the late 19th century. The law school at Osgoode Hall was only titled "Osgoode Hall Law School" in March 1924, when the Law Society of Upper Canada formally assigned it that name. The school signed an agreement of affiliation with York University in 1965 following a decision by the provincial government requiring all law schools to be affiliated with a university. The minister ( Ministry of University Affairs) responsible for the decision, Bill Davis, was an Osgoode graduate in 1954. It was originally located at

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, which also houses the headquarters of the Law Society, and relocated to York University's

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in 1969.

Rankings and reputation

1st year class - Osgoode Hall Law School - Toronto Ont - 1944

Osgoode Hall is one of the most elite law schools in Canada. Times Higher Education ranked Osgoode Hall Law School as a top-50 law school in the world in 2022. Its long and distinguished history has led to a lay prestige that is unmatched by any other Canadian law school. In 2022, Osgoode's joint JD/MBA program with the

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was named among the top 10 business and law programs in North America by FIND MBA. In its most recent rankings, ''

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'' magazine has ranked Osgoode second amongst Canadian law schools. In the 2008 rankings published by ''Canadian Lawyer Magazine'', Osgoode was ranked first in Canada, and was awarded high marks for the quality of its professors, flexible curriculum, and the diversity and relevance of course offerings. The faculty has been described as the "strongest in the country," and rank number one in Canada for faculty journal citations. In the 2022-2023 year, 3600 applicants applied for the 290 spots available in the first year program, resulting in an acceptance rate of around 8%. The only North American law school with a lower rate of acceptance is

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Original building and current facilities

For its first eight decades, Osgoode Hall Law School was located at Osgoode Hall at the corner of Queen Street and University Avenue. The structures at Queen and University (the earliest dating from 1832) are still known as Osgoode Hall. They remain the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada and house the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Currently, the law school is located on the Keele Campus of

, in the Toronto suburb of North York. In May 2007, Dean Monahan announced plans for an extensive renovation and extension of Osgoode Hall Law School involving a renovation of the existing building, and the addition of an additional wing. The building was designed by architect Jack Diamond with the construction of the renovated building beginning in the summer of 2009. The project had been majorly funded by a $2.5 million gift by Ignat Kaneff, and the building has been renamed in his honor. The law school is referred to by York as its faculty of law. Osgoode's Professional Development offices and classrooms are based at 1 Dundas Street West in Downtown Toronto, overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square.

Student life

The Legal & Literary Society, Osgoode Hall Law School's official student society, coordinates student activities both on and off campus. The organization also funds over fifty student clubs, as well as the student newspaper, ''Obiter Dicta''. Osgoode hosts Professional Development Programs (OPD) which are located in downtown Toronto at 1 Dundas Street near the original Osgoode Hall building.

Notable alumni

Supreme Court of Canada justices

* John Robert Cartwright, former Chief Justice * Peter Cory, former

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and former Chancellor of York University *Sir Lyman Duff, former Chief Justice * Frank Joseph Hughes, former Puisne Judge * Wilfred Judson, former Puisne Judge * Andromache Karakatsanis, current Puisne Judge *

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, former Chief Justice * Bora Laskin, former Chief Justice * Malcolm Rowe, current Puisne Judge * Wishart Spence, former Puisne Judge

Other judges

* John Arnup, Moderator for United Church of Canada, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal * George Ethelbert Carter * Kim Carter, Chief Military Judge of the Canadian Forces * (Jack Sydney George) Bud Cullen, Judge at

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* Charles Dubin, former Chief Justice of Ontario * Daniel Dumais ( LL.M.), Emeritus Lawyer distinction from

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, Puisne Judge of

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* Asher Grunis, President of the Supreme Court of Israel * Sydney Harris (judge), activist lawyer and judge, President of the Canadian Jewish Congress * Bill Hastings, Chief Justice of Kiribati, Chief Censor of New Zealand, District Court Judge of

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* Russell G. Juriansz, first South Asian appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal * Harry S. Laforme, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal * Patrick LeSage, Chief Justice of Ontario Superior Court of Justice *

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, Chief Justice of British Columbia * Mark MacGuigan, Attorney General of Canada, Justice of the

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, QC, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal * Roy McMurtry, Chief Justice of Ontario, Attorney General of Ontario, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom * James Chalmers McRuer, Ontario Court of Appeal, Chief Justice at High Court of Justice of Ontario * Charles Terrence Murphy, Judge at Ontario Superior Court, President of

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, former Chief Justice of Kenya * Dennis O'Connor, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario * George Bligh O'Connor,

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from 1950 to 1956 * James O'Reilly, Federal Court Judge * Coulter Osborne, arbitrator, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario * John Richard, NAFTA Adjudicator, Chief Justice of the

* Lorne Sossin, Justice at the Ontario Court of Appeal * Charles Allan Stuart, Justice of the

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, Justice at the Ontario Court of Appeal * Karen M. Weiler, past Judge

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, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal * Sharon A. Williams, Judge ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia * Warren Winkler, Chief Justice of Ontario

Prime Ministers

* Sir John A MacDonald * William Lyon Mackenzie King

Premiers

* Bill Davis, 18th Premier of Ontario * George Drew, 14th Premier of Ontario *

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, 23rd Premier of Ontario *

Howard Ferguson George Howard Ferguson, PC (June 18, 1870 – February 21, 1946) was the ninth premier of Ontario, from 1923 to 1930. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 to 1930 who represented the eastern provinci ...

, 9th Premier of Ontario * Leslie Frost, 16th Premier of Ontario * William Howard Hearst, 7th Premier of Ontario *

Rachel Notley Rachel Anne Notley (born April 17, 1964) is a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Alberta from 2015 to 2019, and has been the leader of the Opposition since 2019. She sits as the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for ...

, 17th Premier of Alberta *

John Robarts John Parmenter Robarts (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Early life Robar ...

, 17th Premier of Ontario

Government

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, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canadian Senator and founding partner of Aird & Berlis LLP * Lincoln Alexander, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario * Daniel J. Arbess, member of Council on Foreign Relations * Oliver Mowat Biggar, co-founder of Smart & Biggar, first Chief Electoral Officer of Canada *

Leonard Braithwaite Leonard Austin Braithwaite (October 23, 1923 – March 28, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Liberal Party from 1963 to 1975. He was th ...

, member of Ontario Parliament * Lionel Chevrier, Attorney General of Canada, President of

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, High Commissioner to the UK * Ward Elcock, Director of

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Gordon Fairweather Robert Gordon Lee Fairweather, (March 27, 1923 – December 24, 2008) was a lawyer and Canadian politician. Fairweather was born in Rothesay, New Brunswick, the son of J.H.A.L. Fairweather and Agnes C. McKeen. Fairweather was educated at Ro ...

, Attorney General of New Brunswick, first Chief Commissioner of the

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* Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance of Canada *

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, Attorney General of Canada, Minister of National Defence *

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, former Ambassador of Canada to the

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* Ron Irwin, former Ambassador to Ireland * James Kelleher, Solicitor General of Canada, Member of the Canadian Senate *

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, Secretary of State for Canada, broadcaster *

Allan Leal Herbert Allan Borden Leal, (June 15, 1917 – October 12, 1999) was a Canadian civil servant and academic. He was Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, and chancellor of McMaster University. Born in Beloeil, Que ...

, President of the

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, Rhodes Scholar *Sir

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, Calgary businessman and Government Leader in the Canadian Senate *

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, Attorney General of British Columbia, Judge *

John Matheson John Ross Matheson, (November 14, 1917 – December 27, 2013) was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and judge who helped develop both the national flag of Canada and the Order of Canada. Early life John Matheson was born in Arundel, Quebec, t ...

, M.P., Justice of Ontario, helped develop Canada's flag and the

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* John Pallett, Chief Gov't Whip, leader of Canadian delegation to

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* Lawrence Pennell, Solicitor General of Canada * Lionel Perez (politician), Montreal city councilor and member of Union Montreal * Richard Rohmer, aviator, Air Force General, lawyer, author, Honorary Advisor to Chief of Defense Staff * Dianne Saxe, environmental lawyer and scholar, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario * Ian Scott, constitutional lawyer, Attorney General of Ontario * Jagmeet Singh, Canadian politician, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada * Sinclair Stevens, banker,

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* John Tory, 65th and current Mayor of Toronto, Former President and CEO of Rogers Media Inc., Former Chairman of the CFL * George Stanley White, former

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* James Worrall, Chair of IOC Commission on The Olympic Charter, President of the

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Law

* Austin Cooper (lawyer), criminal lawyer, defended

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in Toronto * Marlys Edwardh, civil rights * Fraser Elliott, founder of Stikeman Elliott, President of the

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Edwin A. Goodman Edwin A. Goodman, (1918 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadians, Canadian lawyer and political figure. Goodman graduated from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School in 1947 and was one of the founding partners of Goodmans, Goodmans LLP, a Toronto law fir ...

, founding partner of Goodmans *

Randal Graham Randal Graham is a Canadian law professor, novelist, and the Goodmans LLP Faculty Fellow in legal ethics at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law. Early life and education Originally from Peterborough, Ontario, Graham earned a Bachel ...

, law professor, novelist * Edward Greenspan, criminal lawyer * Gordon Henderson, President, Canadian bar association, Chancellor,

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* Marie Henein, criminal lawyer, defended Jian Ghomeshi *

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, refugee law, war resisters * Gord Kirke, sports and entertainment lawyer * M. David Lepofsky, disability and human rights lawyer * John Rosen, criminal lawyer * Stuart Alexander Henderson, successfully defended Gunanoot

Business

*Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway * Marshall A. Cohen, Director at Barrick Gold Corporation &

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, member Trilateral Commission *Dame Moya Greene, Former CEO of

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, Former CEO of Royal Mail *

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, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles * Charles Peter McColough, CEO and Chairman of Xerox Corporation, member of Council on Foreign Relations * Jagoda Pike, former publisher of the ''

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'' *

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, Chairman of Bank of Nova Scotia, director of

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* Kathleen Taylor, Chair of Royal Bank of Canada * John S. D. Tory, founder of Torys and Director of A.V. Roe Canada

Arts

Morley Callaghan Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality. Biography Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 192 ...

, novelist * Murray Cohl, co-founder of the

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* Daniel Iron, film and TV producer * Jerry Levitan,

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nominee * Tom MacInnes, poet *

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Science/medicine

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, Ontario Minister of Labour, became a neurosurgeon after becoming a lawyer

Scholarship

* Payam Akhavan, international human rights *

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, legal scholar and historian, President of the American Society of Legal History * Deborah Coyne, constitutional law and international relations * Giuseppina d'Agostino, intellectual property * Michael Geist, internet and privacy law * Colleen Hanycz, principal of

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from 2008-2015, current university president of La Salle University * James C. Hathaway, international refugee law * Michael Mandel, law professor, international criminal law * Lyal S. Sunga, international humanitarian law, international human rights law,

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. * Paul C. Weiler, Emeritus Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Sportspersons

George Dudley George Samuel Dudley (April 19, 1894 – May 8, 1960) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator. He joined the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) executive in 1928, served as its president from 1934 to 1936, and as its treasurer from 1936 to 1960 ...

, inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame and executive for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association

Notable professors

* Jean-Gabriel Castel, private international law, decorated member of French Resistance *

Peter Hogg Peter Wardell Hogg (12 March 1939 – 4 February 2020) was a New Zealand-born Canadian legal scholar and lawyer. He was best known as a leading authority on Canadian constitutional law, with the most academic citations in Supreme Court jurisp ...

, Canadian constitutional law, authored most-cited book at Supreme Court of Canada * Gord Kirke, sports and entertainment lawyer * Obiora Chinedu Okafor, international and human rights law, also UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity * David Vaver, intellectual property law, also Emeritus Professor at

References

Footnotes

*Footnote
Lorne Sossin
Accessed October 13, 2012. *Footnote
Dean of Osgoode 2010
Accessed October 2012.

External links

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