McGill University Faculty of Law

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McGill University Faculty of Law
Faculté de droit de l'université McGill  (French)
TypePublic
Established1848; 173 years ago (1848)[1]
DeanRobert Leckey
Academic staff
109 [2]
Students875[3]
Location
Montreal
,
Quebec
,
Canada
CampusUrban
Languages
  • English
  • French (limited)
Websitemcgill.ca/law Edit this at Wikidata
Old Chancellor Day Hall in the foreground (and New Chancellor Day Hall in the background) is one of the buildings which house the Faculty of Law of McGill University.

The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada, and continually ranks among the best law schools in the world. The faculty is known for its holistic approach though highly selective and competitive process for admission. Only 180 candidates are admitted for any given academic year and the acceptance rate is generally at 11%.[4][5][6] Its civil law degree is ranked as the best in Canada,[7] and consistently outranks Europe, Asia, and Latin America's top civil law schools.[8][9][10]

Academics[]

Bachelor of Civil Law and Juris Doctor program[]

The McGill Faculty of Law offers a combined Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and Juris Doctor (JD) program. The BCL/JD program emphasizes a transsystemic and polyjural approach that integrates common law and civil law, sometimes within a single class.[11] More recently, the Faculty has incorporated Indigenous law into its curriculum in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations for Canadian law schools.[12]

In 2016, the Faculty reviewed its curriculum and added Integration Week: an introductory week of group work and lectures for first-year students.[13] They also added two Focus Weeks—one in fall and one in winter—that allow students to take intensive one-week courses.

The duration of BCL/JD program is somewhat flexible: the program can be completed in 3, 3.5, or 4 years. Students who opt for a minor, major, or honours program generally require 4 years to complete their degree. Majors are offered in International Human Rights and Development and in Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.[14]

The Faculty of Law, in collaboration with the Desautels Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Art's School of Social Work, offers joint programs that combine the BCL/JD program with either a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or a Master of Social Work (MSW).[15] A joint program takes 4 to 5 years to complete.

The Faculty of Law’s Admissions Office has an acceptance rate of 12.8%.[16]

Master of Laws (LLM)[]

The Faculty offers four LLM programs for students: one general LLM program, and three specialized LLM programs in Air and Space Law, Environment, and Bioethics. Except for the LLM Bioethics program, all programs have thesis and non-thesis options.[17] The non-thesis Master’s of Law option prioritizes course work and can be completed in twelve months. The thesis option prioritizes research; it can be completed in sixteen to twenty-four months. Student in the LLM Bioethics program write a thesis.[18]

Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)[]

The Faculty offers three DCL programs in General Law, Comparative Law, and Air and Space Law.[19] Students generally complete the DCL program in 3 to 4 years.

Graduate Certificates[]

The Faculty offers graduate certificates in Comparative Law and in Air and Space Law. Graduate certificates are awarded upon completing a set number of credits. Certificates are based on coursework, and no thesis is required.

History[]

Angus McIntyre House

The Faculty of Law was officially created in 1853, after a petition signed by young men studying law in Montreal was made to McGill in 1848.[1] With the incoming class of 1969, the Faculty added a stand-alone common law degree, suitable to the practice of law in other Canadian provinces, which could be taken individually or jointly with the traditional Civil Law curriculum. The joint degree was then referred to as the National Programme, and taught common law and civil law in separate courses, but combined their study in a year-long introductory "Foundations" course and in some upper-year seminars.[20] In 1951, McGill inaugurated its first post-graduate law program with the creation of its Institute of Air & Space Law.[21] The Institute was founded by John Cobb Cooper, who had served as a senior official in Pan American World Airways, and the International Air Transport Association.[22] Canada's only United Nations organ, the International Civil Aviation Organization, is also headquartered in Montreal.[23][circular reference]

With the incoming class of 1999, the Faculty eliminated its civil, common, and national programs, and replaced them with a single program, which includes some mandatory first-year courses and some upper-year courses which integrate both common and civil law. This joint and bilingual degree, which all students must take, is now referred to as the transsystemic program.[24] This program underwent slight revisions during a curriculum renewal unrolled in 2016. Under the newly revised program, criminal and property law are taught differently; incoming students also undergo two "integration weeks" (one in the fall and winter).[25]

The Transsystemic program was created under the direction of former Dean Stephen Toope, whereby every student graduates with degrees in both civil law and common law. This means that, from the first year, courses now explore civil and common law concepts in close comparison. Students analyse and critically evaluate the two traditions, their histories, and their social, political, and cultural contexts.[26] Undergraduate students may participate in international exchange programs, and in the International Courts and Tribunals Program, which in 2006 received a Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization.[27]

Since 1976, the Faculty of Law's Institute of Air and Space Law, has annually published the first and only bilingual journal in the field of air and space law, the .[28] Other Faculty of Law bilingual publications include the McGill Law Journal and the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law.[29]

Nahum Gelber Law Library (side profile)

The Buildings[]

Old Chancellor Day Hall and New Chancellor Day Hall are the names of two joined building at McGill University’s downtown campus that house the Faculty of Law. Old Chancellor Day Hall was designed by noted architect Bruce Price for businessman James Ross. New Chancellor Day Hall was completed in 1967 by architecture firm Bland, Lemoyne, Edwards, and Shine. The Old and New Chancellor Day buildings are connected by an underground passage and by an atrium, which also connects to the Nahum Gelber Law Library. Today, Old Chancellor Day Hall is used for administrative and faculty offices. New Chancellor Day Hall includes all classrooms, a moot court room, student spaces, law student services, and administrative and faculty offices.

Old Chancellor Day Hall[]

In 1892, Canadian civil engineer, businessman, and philanthropist James Ross hired architect Bruce Price (whose other masterworks included Windsor Station and Château Frontenac) to design a château-style mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, on Peel Street.[30] Built largely of yellow sandstone from New Brunswick, the James Ross House was one of the most expensive private homes built in Canada during the nineteenth century. The house was a social centre for the Golden Square Mile.[31]

His son John Kenneth Leveson Ross, a noted bon vivant and sportsman, inherited both the house and the Ross fortune.[32] In the 1919, J.K.L. Ross hired architects Trowbridge and Livingstone to undertake $600,000 of renovations that affected every room in the house.[33] The renovation included adding a private bathroom to each bedroom, covering up a skylight, and putting in windows to create a library/reading room in what is now the Common Room. [34] John Ross declared bankruptcy in 1928, and the James Ross House was sold at auction in 1929 for a mere $51,000. The mansion was subsequently purchased by J.W. McConnell in 1948 as a gift to McGill University.[35]

While the University may have initially planned to use it for a student residence, the Faculty of Law officially moved into the mansion in a ceremony attended by many members of the judiciary and the Montreal Bar on February 9, 1950. At the ceremony, McGill’s Chancellor, Orville S. Tyndale, declared on behalf of the Board of Governors that the mansion would be named Chancellor Day Hall in honour of McGill’s first Chancellor, Charles Dewey Day. The opening ceremony was held in the students’ handsomely furnished common room, a gift from Maurice Pollack.[36]

On July 9, 2014, Old Chancellor Day Hall closed for 14 months for renovations to upgrade the building’s heating, electrical systems, plumbing, windows, and more. Thirty-four staff and faculty members were relocated to New Chancellor Day Hall and to temporary offices on McGill College Avenue. [37][38]

In December 2017, representatives of the Clan Ross Association of Canada and members of the Faculty of Law unveiled a plaque commemorating James Ross. The plaque is located near the main entrance. [39]

New Chancellor Day Hall[]

New Chancellor Day Hall was built in 1967 to address the Faculty of Law’s growing program and increased enrolment.[40] A six-storey precast concrete tower designed by architectural firm Bland, Lemoyne, Edwards, and Shine was erected just west of Chancellor Day Hall and connected to it by a corridor, at the cost of $1.825 million.[41] This extension was named New Chancellor Day Hall and blended with the adjacent Stewart Biological Sciences Building. New Chancellor Day Hall included additional classrooms, study spaces, and a moot court. Prior to the construction of the Gelber Law Library, the top floors of New Chancellor Day Hall housed the library.[42][43]

The building was inaugurated on January 21, 1967. During the bilingual ceremony, the Faculty of Law awarded seven honorary degree, including degrees to Chief Justice Robert Taschereau of Canada, Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United States, and Lord Denning of Great Britain.[44] Following the inauguration of the Gelber Law Library in 1998, the empty floors of New Chancellor Day that had previously been used as the library were used by McGill University to house various small research units attached to different faculties.[45] In 2005, all student services at the Faculty of Law were consolidated on the fourth floor of New Chancellor Day Hall.

From 2008 to 2009, New Chancellor Day Hall underwent major renovations. The project overhauled the third, fifth, and sixth floors. New architectural features included adding a massive skylight above a staircase between the fifth and sixth floors, piercing windows on the sixth floor, and creating partially frosted glass partitions between offices to allow natural light inside interior offices. The third floor is devoted to student spaces – accommodating a multimedia classroom with movable walls and a seminar room. The third floor is also home to multiple student clubs, student-run law journals, and the graduate students’ lounge. The fifth and sixth floors feature a conference room, and house some of the Faculty’s research units, as well as offices for professors, staff, graduate students, and visiting scholars.[46]

Nahum Gelber Law Library[]

The Nahum Gelber Law Library is one of the 13 branches of the McGill University Library and houses over 220 000 volumes of statutes, regulations, law reports, treatises, books, journals and other legal material. Designed by Dan Hanganu, the Nahum Gelber Law Library was inaugurated September 1998.[47] The building was designed to link to New and Old Chancellor Day Halls via a two-level atrium for socializing and studying.[48]

The Gelber Library is home to the Wainwright Collection, which was established in 1958 with the acquisition of several hundred volumes dedicated to the history of French law.[49] The collection is primarily composed of early French jurists on general civil law before the Codification of 1804 and was the personal library of French legal historian François Olivier-Martin.[50] Over the years, the Wainwright fund has allowed the Library to expand the collection beyond the classic vision of civil law, centred on France, to reflect the global influence of civil law across languages and continents. Today, the collection consists of 800 works comprising 1200 volumes and is conserved in controlled atmospheric conditions in the Peter M. Laing Room, located on the second floor of the Gelber Law Library.[51]

Reputation[]

Graduates of the Faculty consistently account for one quarter of Canada's Supreme Court clerkships,[52][53][54][55] more than any law school in Canada.[56] One of the small number of elite law schools internationally that may submit International Court of Justice (ICJ) clerkship applications, it also consistently places graduates at the ICJ,[57][58] and has a better placement record than any other Canadian law school.

Its flagship law review, the McGill Law Journal, is the most cited law faculty review by Canada's Supreme Court, and was ranked the best overall student-run law journal in the world outside of the United States. It also publishes the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, the standard reference work for almost all Canadian law reviews, Canadian law schools, and courts.

The McGill University Faculty of Law has consistently placed as the top ranking law school in Canada and has the highest acceptance requirements. The alumni from McGill University's law school consist of a diverse group of distinguished leaders on a global scale. It has historically placed in the top ~20 law schools globally on multiple ranking systems.[59] It was recently ranked the 22nd best law school worldwide in the 2019 QS World Ranking.[59] It was ranked the 16th best law school in the world in the 2021 Times Higher Education World Rankings, marking consistent showings for McGill in the top 20 worldwide in the ranking.[60]

University rankings
Global rankings
QS World[61]22
Times World[62]16
Canadian rankings

Controversies[]

In 2018, the Faculty, along with the McGill Office for Students with Disabilities, were sued by a blind law student who alleged that he was systematically denied access to accommodation measures. His lawsuit was covered by local and national media outlets.[63][64][65]

Notable people[]

Notable alumni include Prime Ministers John Abbott and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, thirteen Justices of the Supreme Court (Including the most recent appointments, Mahmud Jamal and Nicholas Kasirer), as well as numerous Members of Parliament. Three members of the current Cabinet of Canada are graduates of the Faculty: Catherine McKenna, David Lametti, and Marc Miller.

Current faculty members[]

  • Adelle Blackett, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, former member of the International Labour Organization.
  • Allison Christians, holder of the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law.
  • François Crépeau, former director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, holder of the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.
  • Armand de Mestral, Jean Monnet Chair in the Law of International Economic Integration.
  • Mugambi Jouet, expert on criminal justice.
  • Robert Leckey, dean and holder of the Samuel Gale Chair.
  • Stephen Allan Scott, professor emeritus and leading scholar on the Canadian Constitution.
  • Stephen A. Smith, scholar of contractual and remedial law.
  • Colleen Sheppard, professor and expert in human rights and discrimination
  • Daniel Weinstock, holder of the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy
  • Peer Zumbansen, Business law professor, co-founder of the German Law Journal

Past faculty members[]

  • Payam Akhavan, former UN prosecutor at The Hague.
  • Irwin Cotler (BCL 1961, LLD 2019), human rights lawyer, former MP for Mount Royal and former Canadian Minister of Justice
  • Julius Grey (BCL 1971), Quebec human rights lawyer
  • Ralph Simmonds Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
  • John Cobb Cooper (LLD 1952), founded the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University
  • Paul-André Crépeau, responsible for drafting the new Civil Code of Quebec
  • James Mallory – for many years Canada's leading constitutional scholar
  • Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion, Canadian lawyer, professor, and Canadian cabinet member
  • Charles Joseph Doherty (BCL 1876, Hon. LLD 1913) – Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 1911–1921
  • H. Patrick Glenn, comparative legal scholar and author of "Legal Traditions of the World".
  • Patrick Healy (BCL 1981), judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal.
  • John Peters Humphrey (BCL 1929, LLB 1976), founding Director of the United Nations Human Rights division and principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Daniel Jutras, former Dean of McGill Law and current Recteur of Université de Montréal
  • David Johnston (LLD 2000), fourteenth Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, and former Governor General of Canada
  • Nicholas Kasirer (BCL 1985, LLB 1985), scholar of civil law, comparative law, and law and language, Dean of the faculty 2004-2009, Supreme Court of Canada judge
  • Donald James Johnston (BCL 1958, LLD 2003), 4th Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Attorney General of Canada from 1984 to 1988.
  • David Lametti (BCL 1989, LLB 1989), MP for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, Canadian Minister of Justice, and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade
  • W. C. J. Meredith, special federal prosecutor at the trial of Fred Rose, for whom the Meredith Memorial Lectures are named
  • Roderick A. Macdonald, Dean of the faculty (1984-1989) influential law reformer, scholar, teacher, mentor and Founding President of the Law Commission of Canada[66]
  • Yves-Marie Morissette, civil and comparative law scholar, Quebec Court of Appeal judge.
  • Margaret Somerville, ethicist and former Samuel Gale Professor of Law.
  • William Tetley, maritime law scholar, Quebec MNA for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Cabinet Minister.
  • Stephen Toope (BCL 1983, LLB 1983, LLD 2017), international law scholar, vice-chancellor of Cambridge University and former President of the University of British Columbia.

Alumni[]

Justices of the Supreme Court[]

  • Douglas Abbott (BCL 1918), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1954, previously Minister of National Defence and Minister of Finance[67]
  • Louis-Philippe de Grandpré (BCL 1938), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1974, formerly president of the Canadian Bar Association[68]
  • Marie Deschamps (LLM 1983), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2002, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal[69]
  • Morris Fish (BCL 1962), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2003, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal[70]
  • Clément Gascon (BCL 1981), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2014, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal[71]
  • Désiré Girouard (BCL 1860), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1895, previously member of Parliament[72]
  • Charles D. Gonthier (BCL 1951), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1989, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal[73]
  • Mahmud Jamal (BCL’93, LLB’93), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2021, previously a Judge on the Court of Appeal for Ontario[74]
  • Nicholas Kasirer (BCL 1985, LLB 1985), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2019, previously a Judge on the Quebec Court of Appeal[75]
  • Gerald Le Dain (BCL 1949), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1984, previously a Judge on the Federal Court of Appeal[76]
  • Sheilah L. Martin (BCL 1981, LLB 1981), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 2017, previously judge of the Court of Appeal of Alberta[77]
  • Pierre-Basile Mignault (BCL 1878), puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1918, previously President of the Bar of Montreal[78]
  • Thibaudeau Rinfret (BCL 1900), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — appointed to the Court in 1924, previously a Judge on the Superior Court of Quebec[79]

Jurists and legal professionals[]

Political figures[]

  • John Abbott (BCL 1854),[81] 3rd Prime Minister of Canada.
  • Warren Allmand (BCL 1952) – served variously as Solicitor General, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs between 1972 and 1979.
  • Will Amos (BCL/LLB 2004), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of Pontiac.
  • W. David Angus (BCL 1962), former Canadian senator.
  • Albert Joseph Brown (BCL 1886) – Senator for Wellington, 1932–1938.
  • Brooke Claxton (BCL 1946) – Minister of Health, 1943–1946; Minister of National Defence, 1946–1954.
  • John Joseph Curran (LLB 1862) – first Solicitor General of Canada.
  • Henry Joseph Cloran (BCL 1883) – Senator for Victoria, Quebec, 1903–1928.
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee (BCL 1861),[82] Member of Parliament, Minister of agriculture, immigration and statistics, and Father of Canadian Confederation.
  • Charles Dewey Day Chancellor of McGill University 1864-1884, political figure in Canada East.
  • Charles Drury (BCL 1936) – Minister of Finance, Defence, Public Works, Industry, President of the Treasury Board
  • Ken Dryden (LLB 1973), cabinet minister, MP for York Centre, and Hockey Hall of Fame member.
  • Brian Gallant (LLM 2011), former Premier of New Brunswick.
  • Yoine Goldstein (BCL 1958), former Canadian senator.
  • Stanley Hartt (BCL 1963), lawyer, businessman and chief of staff to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
  • Arnold Heeney (BCL 1927) – ambassador to the United States and NATO.
  • Véronique Hivon (BCL 1994, LLB 1994), member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Joliette.
  • Balarama Holness (JD/BCL 2021), rights activist, former Canadian Football League (CFL) player, candidate for mayor in the 2021 Montreal municipal elections[83]
  • Anthony Housefather (BCL 1993, LLB 1993), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of Mount Royal.
  • John Peters Humphrey (BCom’25, BA’27, BCL’29, PhD’45, LLD’76), first director of the UN’s Human Rights Division, principal author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Samuel William Jacobs (BCL 1893) – Member of Parliament for George-Étienne Cartier, Quebec.
  • Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (BCL’50, LLD’97), first woman to become a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, lawyer and judge.
  • Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen (BCL 1914), Canadian lawyer and senator.
  • Rodolphe Laflamme (BCL 1856, DCL 1873), 5th Attorney General of Canada
  • David Lametti (BCL 1989, LLB 1989), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, Canadian Minister of Justice, and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade.
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier (BCL 1866),[84] 7th Prime Minister of Canada.
  • Joël Lightbound (BCL/LLB 2011), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of Louis-Hébert.
  • Hillel Neuer (BCL 1997, LLB 1997), international lawyer, writer, and executive director of UN Watch.
  • Alan Macnaughton (BCL 1927) – former Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons.
  • Joni Madraiwiwi (LLM 1989) – former acting president and vice-president of the Republic of Fiji and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Nauru
  • Catherine McKenna (LLB 1999), Liberal politician, MP for the riding of Ottawa Centre, and Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.
  • Marc Miller (BCL/LLB 2001) Lawyer and MP for the Liberal current Canadian Minister of Indigenous Services.
  • Frederick Debartzch Monk (BCL 1877) – Minister of Public Works, 1911–1912
  • Thomas Mulcair (BCL 1976, LLB 1977), former leader of the NDP of the Official Opposition, MP for Outremont, former Quebec MNA for Chomedy and Minister of Environment.
  • Joe Oliver (BCL 1964), former MP for Eglinton—Lawrence, Minister of Finance and Minister of Natural Resources.
  • Narcisse Pérodeau (BCL 1876), a Quebec politician and the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
  • Jim Peterson (DCL 1970) – Minister of International Trade, 2003–2006.
  • Sydney David Pierce (BCL 1925, LLD 1956) – Olympic hurdler and ambassador to Brazil, Belgium, Luxembourg, Mexico, and the OECD.
  • Lazarus Phillips (BCL 1918), Canadian lawyer and Senator.
  • John Rankin (LLM 1984) – current
  • Greg Rickford (BCL/LLB 2005) – Minister of Natural Resources, 2014–2015.
  • Alexander Cameron Rutherford (BCL 1881), first premier of Alberta, founder of the University of Alberta.
  • Larry W. Smith (BCL 1976), former Canadian senator, nine season running back for Montreal Alouettes and 8th commissioner of the CFL.
  • Francis R. Scott (BCL 1927, LLD 1967), constitutional rights lawyer, civil libertarian, poet, founder of the first social democratic party and the NDP
  • Kathleen Weil (BCL 1982, LLB 1982), member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
  • Nick Whalen (LLB 2011), Lawyer and former MP for the Liberal

Other Alumni[]

  • David P. O'Brien (BCL 1965), Canadian businessman, currently as chairman of Royal Bank of Canada
  • Peter Blaikie (BCL 1965), Quebec lawyer, politician, co-founder of Heenan Blaikie
  • Leonard Cohen, prominent singer-songwriter (who only did a year of Law before dropping out)
  • Chuck Comeau, the drummer for Simple Plan (studied law but ultimately dropped out)
  • James Creighton (BCL 1880) "father of organized hockey"
  • Mary Dawson (BCL 1963), civil servant, former Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner of Canada.
  • Yves Fortier (BCL 1958, LLD 2005), Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council.
  • Michael Goldbloom (BCL 1978, LLB 1979), Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec; former publisher of the Toronto Star
  • Shaul Gordon (BCL/JD 2019, LLM 2021), award-winning competitive fencer, Olympic athlete (Tokyo 2020)
  • Roy Heenan (BCL 1960, LLD 2008), Labour lawyer, academic, and co-founder of Heenan Blaikie
  • Hubert Lacroix (BCL 1976), former CEO and President of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  • David Lawee (BCL 1993), tech executive, founder of Google Capital.
  • Annie MacDonald Langstaff (BCL 1914), the first woman to earn a law degree in Quebec, a legal activist, supporter of women's suffrage and an early woman aviator.
  • Hilmi M. Zawati (LLB 1978, MA 1986, PhD 1994, LLM 1997, DCL 2010), International Criminal Law Jurist, and Chair of Centre for International Accountability and Justice (CIAJ).
  • Don Meehan (LLB 1975), founder of Newport Sports agency, which represents several hockey players in the NHL.
  • Mayo Moran (LLB 1990), Dean of University of Toronto Faculty of Law 2006-2014, first female dean.
  • Pierre Péladeau (BCL 1950), founder of Canadian media company Quebecor Inc.
  • Richard Pound (BCL 1962, LLD 2009), Canadian swimming champion, lawyer and prominent spokesman for ethics in sport.
  • Jennifer Stoddart (BCL 1980, LLD 2015), civil servant, sixth Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  • Frank Shoofey (BA 1961, BCL 1964), prominent criminal lawyer.
  • Christopher Waters (LLM 1998, DCL 2002), Dean of University of Windsor Faculty of Law 2006-Present
  • Mortimer Zuckerman (BCL 1961), Canadian-American billionaire media magnate, co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties

Deans of the Faculty[]

The study of law at McGill began in 1844 when William Badgley was appointed lecturer in law within the Faculty of Arts. While informal classes began earlier, the Faculty of Law was officially established at McGill in 1853, with William Badgley appointed its first dean. Over the years, the following people have served the Faculty of Law as deans.[85][86][87][88][89]

  • 1853-1855 William Badgley, DCL 1870
  • 1855-1876 Sir John Abbott, BCL 1854, DCL 1867
  • 1876-1881 William W.H. Kerr, BCL 1872 (Acting Dean)
  • 1881-1888 William W.H. Kerr, BCL 1872
  • 1888-1896 Norman W. Trenholme, BCL 1865, DCL 1887
  • 1896-1897 Leonidas Davidson, BCL 1864
  • 1897-1914 Frederick Parker Walton, LLD 1915
  • 1914-1915 Charles Peers Davidson, BCL 1863, DCL 1875, LLD 1912 (Acting Dean)
  • 1915-1921 Robert Warden Lee, DCL 1877
  • 1921-1923 Robert A.E. Greenshields, BCL 1885, LLD 1929 (Acting Dean)
  • 1923-1928 Robert A.E. Greenshields, BCL 1885, LLD 1929
  • 1928-1936 Percy Ellwood Corbett, DCL 1961
  • 1936-1946 C. Stuart Lemesurier, BCL 1912
  • 1946 John P. Humphrey, BCL 1929, PhD 1945, LLD 1976 (Dean Designate)
  • 1946-1949 C. Stuart Lemesurier, BCL 1912
  • 1949 Gérald Fauteux, LLD 1955
  • 1950 A. Sydney Bruneau, BCL 1917
  • 1950-1960 William C.J. Meredith
  • 1960-1961 Maxwell Cohen, LLD 1994 (Acting Dean)
  • 1961-1964 F.R. Scott, BCL 1927, LLD 1967
  • 1964-1969 Maxwell Cohen, LLD 1994
  • 1969-1974 John W. Durnford, BCL 1952
  • 1974-1979 John E.C. Brierley, BCL 1959
  • 1979-1980 William Foster (Acting Dean)
  • 1980-1984 John E.C. Brierley, BCL 1959
  • 1984-1989 Roderick A. Macdonald
  • 1989-1994 The Hon. Yves-Marie Morissette
  • 1994-1999 Stephen Toope, BCL 1983, LLB 1983, LLD 2017
  • 1999-2003 Peter Leuprecht
  • 2003-2009 The Hon. Nicholas Kasirer, BCL 1985, LLB 1985
  • 2009 Shauna Van Praagh (Acting Dean)
  • 2009-2010 Daniel Jutras (Acting Dean)
  • 2010-2016 Daniel Jutras
  • 2016- Robert Leckey, BCL 2002, LLB 2002

See also[]

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