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Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval
Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval | |
Motto | Deo favente haud pluribus impar (With God's help, to no one equal) |
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Parent school | Université Laval |
Established | 1852 |
School type | Public |
Dean | Anne-Marie Laflamme |
Location | Quebec City, QC, CA |
Enrollment | 1000 |
Faculty | 45 (See List) |
Annual tuition | |
Website | www.fd.ulaval.ca |
Outlines | 0 (See List) |
The Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval is the law school of Université Laval. Founded in 1852, it is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in North America. It hosts more than 1,000 students in its curriculum of first, second, and third years, with more than 45 lecturers teaching and supervising research projects in most areas of law. The research activity is particularly intense in the field of human rights and public freedoms in light of legal issues, economic law, environmental law, public law, and private international trade.
Teaching and research are based on a law library with more than 200,000 documents, which receives subscriptions of several hundred legal periodicals from Quebec, Canada, and internationally.
Specializations
The Laval Faculty of Law allows for specializations in:
- Public law
- Commercial law
- International law
- Corporate law (Template:Lang-fr)[1]
- Tax law
- Judicial law
- Criminal law
- Labour law
Programs of study
- Certificate of Law (Template:Lang-fr)[2]
- Bachelor of Laws (Template:Lang-fr) (LL. B.)[3]
- Doctor of Law (Template:Lang-fr)[4]
- Master of Laws (LL. M.) (Template:Lang-fr)[5]
- Master of Notarial Law (LL. M.) (Template:Lang-fr)[7]
Alumni
The Laval Law School has educated many prominent Canadians. Many alumni have distinguished themselves in English and French Canada, most notably, in the fields of the civil service, politics, the judiciary, and business.
Numerous public figures, including Prime Ministers of Canada, Premiers of Quebec, Supreme Court Justices, federal Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Lieutenant-Governors attended the Laval Faculty of Law.
Supreme Court of Canada justices
- Henri Elzéar Taschereau — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Sir Charles Fitzpatrick — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Robert Taschereau — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Louis-Philippe Pigeon — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Yves Pratte — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Julien Chouinard — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Louis LeBel — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Claire L'Heureux-Dubé — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Suzanne Côté — Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Politicians
- Louis St. Laurent — Prime Minister of Canada
- Brian Mulroney — Prime Minister of Canada
- Jean Chrétien — Prime Minister of Canada
- Pierre Duchesne — Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
- Edmund James Flynn — Premier of Quebec 1896-1897
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau — Premier of Quebec 1920-1936
- Jean Lesage — Premier of Quebec 1960-1966
- René Lévesque — (did not graduate) Premier of Quebec 1976-1985
- Lucien Bouchard — Premier of Quebec 1996-2001, Leader of the Bloc Québécois
- Michael Meighen — Senator
- Michael Fortier — Senator
- Raymond C. Setlakwe — Senator
Royalty
- Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Monarch of Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000
Business
- Conrad Black — former media magnate
- Peter White
- William John Jacques Demers
Entertainment
See also
References
- ↑ Maîtrise avec Essai en Droit de l'Entreprise (Company Law) at Université Laval,
- ↑ Certificat en droit : Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval,
- ↑ Baccalauréat en DROIT (LL. B.) : Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval,
- ↑ Doctorat en droit : Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval,
- ↑ Maîtrise en droit - avec mémoire (LL. M.) : Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval,
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Université Laval, LLM GUIDE – Master of Laws Programs Worldwide
- ↑ Maîtrise en droit notarial (LL. M.) : Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval,
External links
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