University of Toronto Faculty of Law | |
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Established | 1949 (in current state) |
School type | Public |
Dean | Jutta Brunnée |
Location | Toronto, Canada |
Enrollment | 815[1] |
Faculty | 125 [2] |
Website | www.law.utoronto.ca |
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law (U of T Law, UToronto Law) is the law school of the University of Toronto. Maclean's has consistently assessed the Faculty as the highest ranked common law school in Canada and the highest ranked in terms of faculty journal citations.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The Faculty offers the JD, LLM, SJD, MSL, and GPLLM degrees in law.
Among its alumni are four Canadian Prime Ministers, 14 Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, including one of the nine currently-sitting Justices, Sheilah Martin, five Nobel Prize Laureates, three Chiefs of Staff to the Prime Minister, two Premiers of Ontario, and two Mayors of Toronto. A number of deans of law schools around the world—Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Manitoba, and Queen's Faculty of Law—are University of Toronto Law graduates.[10]
The current Dean of the Faculty of Law (as of January 1, 2021) is Jutta Brunnée, an international and environmental law scholar.