Law
Faculty of Law
Bienvenue à la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill!
McGill’s distinctive legal education is one of the best in the world. It crosses boundaries of language, jurisdiction, legal tradition, discipline, and culture. It equips jurists with the critical knowledge, skills, and ethical grounding to excel as problem solvers and architects of social order. It prepares graduates for a world where boundaries are porous and shifting—where people, goods, and ideas move further and faster than ever.
Our double-degree program explores legal traditions from a unique comparative and integrated perspective. Consistent with the Faculty of Law’s location on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka people and with the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, our double-degree program increasingly includes Indigenous legal traditions. Within our graduate program’s vibrant community, our master’s and doctoral students receive dedicated attention from a diverse group of leading researchers. Our doctoral students receive a preparation for law teaching that has no equal.
La Faculté de droit est située au cœur de Montréal, une métropole francophone caractérisée par un environnement culturel dynamique et pluraliste. Cet environnement cosmopolite a guidé notre mission fondamentale. L’enseignement et la recherche s’y déroulent en anglais et en français, en droit civil comme en common law.
The Faculty is outward-looking and international, recruiting professors from around the world. The BCL/JD class entering in 2019 included students born in 29 countries and speaking 15 mother tongues, and our graduate student population is drawn from five continents.
We earned our extraordinary reputation with our unique program and path-breaking research. Our professors are deeply committed to our students’ success. And we’re taking steps to be more inclusive towards a broad range of learners—and to better represent our diverse society, including Canada’s indigenous peoples.
Legal Education at McGill
We do legal education like nobody else
Proudly bilingual, rigorously pluralistic, the McGill Law program breaks the mould for legal education in our fast-paced, globalized world. No other law program reaches further. The McGill program ensures that students gain a cosmopolitan understanding of the law that is not confined to specific jurisdictions or legal traditions.
Legal education at McGill explores concepts and ideas through a comparative, integrated lens that is unique around the world.
The McGill curriculum features multiple opportunities for problem-based learning, translation of knowledge into action, and the development of skills that are critical to engaged, effective, and enlightened jurists.
An integrated education
- Designed to work across the traditional boundaries of first-year coursework.
- Offered in French and English.
- That builds on an expertise in the civil law and common law, broadened to include other legal traditions, including better understandings of Indigenous law, as well as cutting-edge scholarship in alternate dispute resolution.
A focus on problem-solving
- Students work in small groups to tackle issues in legal methodology and ethics, empirical research, and policy analysis.
- A revised semester timetable makes space for one-week intensive teaching on specialized topics during the fall and winter terms.
Innovative pedagogy that flips the script and
- Allows you to take the lead in your own education.
- Uses technology in modernized classrooms to enhance participation and critical reflection.
The original and critical vision that characterizes legal education at McGill is a springboard for those whose ideas will inspire legal leadership for global challenges.
Above all, the Faculty prides itself on developing agile thinkers, conscientious citizens, and globally oriented, forward-looking jurists for the 21st century.
McGill Law. It's a world-class move.
Location
Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Montreal QC H3A 1W9
Telephone: 514-398-6666
Website: mcgill.ca/law
Undergraduate Admissions
New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street, Room 418
Montreal QC H3A 1W9
Telephone: 514-398-6602
Email: admissions.law@mcgill.ca