Osgoode Hall Law School

Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school was originally founded by the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario),^[1] and named for William Osgoode, an Oxford University graduate and barrister of Lincoln's Inn who was the first to serve as the Chief Justice of Upper Canada.^[2][3] 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.

It was originally located at Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto, which also houses the headquarters of the Law Society, and relocated to York University's Keele Campus in 1969.^[4]

The law school is home to the Law Commission of Ontario and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Osgoode also hosts Professional Development Programs (OPD) which are located in downtown Toronto at 1 Dundas St. near the original Osgoode Hall building.^[5] A variety of LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law are available. Its alumni include three Canadian Prime Ministers and ten Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, four of whom were Chief Justices.

The current dean of the law school is Mary Condon.^[6]

Rankings and reputation

The first year class of Osgoode Hall Law School in 1944

QS world university rankings 2018 places Osgoode Hall Law School in the bracket of 51st to 100th top law schools in the world.^[7]

Maclean's magazine has ranked Osgoode second amongst Canadian law schools in 2011, 2012 and 2013.^[8][9][10] In the 2008 rankings published by Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Osgoode was ranked first in Canada,^[11] and was awarded high marks for the quality of its professors, flexible curriculum, and the diversity and relevance of course offerings.^[11]

The Original Osgoode Hall Building and the Law School's Current Facilities

The law school is housed in a building named in honour of donor Ignat Kaneff.

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 York University, in the Toronto suburb of North York.^[12] 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.^[13] 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.

Notable alumni

Osgoode Hall Law Library - lower level stacks

Supreme Court of Canada justices

• John Robert Cartwright, former Chief Justice^[14]
• Peter Cory, former Puisne Judge and former Chancellor of York University^[15]
• Sir Lyman Duff, former Chief Justice^[16]
• Frank Joseph Hughes, former Puisne Judge^[17]
• Wilfred Judson, former Puisne Judge^[18]
• Andromache Karakatsanis, current Puisne Judge^[19]
• Patrick Kerwin, former Chief Justice^[20]
• Bora Laskin, former Chief Justice^[21]
• Malcolm Rowe, current Puisne Judge^[22]
• Wishart Spence, former Puisne Judge^[23]

Other judges

• John Arnup, Moderator for United Church of Canada, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal^[24]
• George Ethelbert Carter^[25]
• Kim Carter, Chief Military Judge of the Canadian Forces^[26]
• (Jack Sydney George) Bud Cullen, Judge at Federal Court of Canada^[27]
• Charles Dubin, former Chief Justice of Ontario^[28]
• Daniel Dumais (LL.M.), Emeritus Lawyer distinction from Barreau du Quebec, Puisne Judge of Superior Court of Quebec^[29]
• Asher Grunis, President of the Supreme Court of Israel^[30]
• Sydney Harris (judge), activist lawyer and judge, President of the Canadian Jewish Congress^[31][32][33]
• Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand, District Court Judge of New Zealand^[34]
• Russell G. Juriansz, first South Asian appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal^[35][36]
• Harry S. Laforme, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal^[37]
• Patrick LeSage, Chief Justice of Ontario Superior Court of Justice^[38]
• Malcolm Archibald Macdonald, Chief Justice of British Columbia^[39]
• Mark MacGuigan, Attorney General of Canada, Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal^[40]
• Goldwyn Arthur Martin, QC, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal^[41]
• Roy McMurtry, Chief Justice of Ontario, Attorney General of Ontario, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom^[42]
• James Chalmers McRuer, Ontario Court of Appeal, Chief Justice at High Court of Justice of Ontario^[43]
• Charles Terrence Murphy, Judge at Ontario Superior Court,^[44] President of North Atlantic Assembly^[45]
• Dennis O'Connor, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario^[46]
• James O'Reilly, Federal Court Judge^[47]
• Coulter Osborne, arbitrator, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario^[48]
• John Richard, NAFTA Adjudicator,^[49] Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal^[50]
• Charles Allan Stuart, Justice of the Supreme Court of Alberta^[51]
• Michael Tulloch, Justice at the Ontario Court of Appeal^[52]
• Karen M. Weiler, past Judge Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, Justice at Ontario Court of Appeal^[53]
• Sharon A. Williams, Judge ad litem at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia^[54][55]
• Warren Winkler, Chief Justice of Ontario^[56]
• Willy Mutunga, former Chief Justice of Kenya^[57]

Prime Ministers

• William Lyon Mackenzie King^[58][59][60]
• Arthur Meighen^[61][62][63]

Premiers

• Bill Davis, 18th Premier of Ontario^[64][65][66]
• George Drew, 14th Premier of Ontario^[67]
• Ernie Eves, 23rd Premier of Ontario^[68]
• Howard Ferguson, 9th Premier of Ontario^[69]
• Leslie Frost, 16th Premier of Ontario^{[70][71][72][73]}
• William Howard Hearst, 7th Premier of Ontario^[74]
• Rachel Notley, 17th Premier of Alberta^[75]
• John Robarts, 17th Premier of Ontario^[76]

Government

• John Black Aird, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canadian Senator and founding partner of Aird & Berlis LLP^[77]
• Lincoln Alexander, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario^[78]
• Daniel J. Arbess, member of Council on Foreign Relations^[79]
• Oliver Mowat Biggar, co-founder of Smart & Biggar, first Chief Electoral Officer of Canada^[80][81]
• Leonard Braithwaite, member of Ontario Parliament^[82]
• Lionel Chevrier, Attorney General of Canada, President of Privy Council of Canada, High Commissioner to the UK^[83]
• Ward Elcock, Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service^[84]
• Gordon Fairweather, Attorney General of New Brunswick, first Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission^[85][86]
• Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance of Canada^[87][88]
• Heather Grant, Ambassador of Canada to Sweden^[89]
• Hugh Guthrie, Attorney General of Canada, Minister of National Defence^[90][91]
• Ross Hornby, former Ambassador of Canada to the European Union^[92]
• Ron Irwin, former Ambassador to Ireland^[93]
• James Kelleher, Solicitor General of Canada, Member of the Canadian Senate^[94]
• Judy LaMarsh, Secretary of State for Canada, broadcaster^[95][96][97]
• Allan Leal, President of the Empire Club of Canada, Rhodes Scholar^[98]
• Sir James Alexander Lougheed, Calgary businessman and Government Leader in the Canadian Senate^[99][100]
• Alexander Malcolm Manson, Attorney General of British Columbia, Judge^[101][102]
• John Matheson, M.P., Justice of Ontario, helped develop Canada's flag and the Order of Canada^[103]
• John Pallett, Chief Gov't Whip, leader of Canadian delegation to NATO
• Lawrence Pennell, Solicitor General of Canada^[104][105]
• Lionel Perez (politician), Montreal city councilor and member of Union Montreal^[106][107]
• Richard Rohmer, aviator, Air Force General, lawyer, author, Honorary Advisor to Chief of Defense Staff^[108][109]
• Dianne Saxe, environmental lawyer and scholar, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario^[110][111]
• Ian Scott, constitutional lawyer, Attorney General of Ontario^[112][113]
• Sinclair Stevens, banker, President of the Treasury Board^[114][115]
• George Stanley White, former Speaker of the Canadian Senate^[116][117]
• John Tory, 65th and current Mayor of Toronto, Former President and CEO of Rogers Media Inc., Former Chairman of the CFL
• James Worrall, Chair of IOC Commission on The Olympic Charter, President of the Canadian Olympic Committee^[118][119]

Law

• Austin Cooper (lawyer), criminal lawyer, defended Keith Richards in Toronto^[120]
• Marlys Edwardh, civil rights^[121]
• Fraser Elliott, founder of Stikeman Elliott, President of the Art Gallery of Ontario^[122]
• Edwin A. Goodman, founding partner of Goodmans^[123]
• Edward Greenspan, criminal lawyer^[124]
• Marie Henein, criminal lawyer, defended Jian Ghomeshi ^[125]
• Jeffry House, refugee law, war resisters^[126]
• Gord Kirke, sports and entertainment lawyer^[127]
• M. David Lepofsky, disability and human rights lawyer ^[128]
• John Rosen, criminal lawyer^[129]

Business

• Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway^[130]
• Marshall A. Cohen, Director at Barrick Gold Corporation & Toronto-Dominion Bank, member Trilateral Commission ^[131]
• Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles^[132]
• Charles Peter McColough, CEO and Chairman of Xerox Corporation, member of Council on Foreign Relations^[133]
• Jagoda Pike, former publisher of the Toronto Star^[134]
• Arthur Richard Andrew Scace, Chairman of Bank of Nova Scotia, director of Canadian Opera Company^[135][136]
• Kathleen Taylor, Chair of Royal Bank of Canada^[137][138]
• John S. D. Tory, founder of Torys and Director of A.V. Roe Canada^[139]

Arts

• Morley Callaghan, novelist^[140]
• Murray Cohl, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival^[141]
• Daniel Iron, film and TV producer^[142]
• Tom MacInnes, poet^[143]
• Jerry Levitan, Oscar nominee^[144][145]
• Aaron Schwartz (Canadian actor)^[146][147]

Science/medicine

• Robert Elgie, Ontario Minister of Labour, became a neurosurgeon after becoming a lawyer^[148]

Scholarship

• Payam Akhavan, international human rights^[149]
• Constance Backhouse, legal scholar and historian, President of the American Society of Legal History^[150]
• Deborah Coyne, constitutional law and international relations^[151]
• Giuseppina d'Agostino, intellectual property^[152]
• Michael Geist, internet and privacy law^[153]
• James C. Hathaway, international refugee law^[154]
• Colleen Hanycz, principal of Brescia University College from 2008-2015, current university president of La Salle University
• Michael Mandel, law professor, international criminal law^[155]
• Lyal S. Sunga, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law.^[156][157]
• Paul C. Weiler, Emeritus Professor of Law, Harvard Law School^[158]

Sportspersons

• George Dudley, inductee of the Hockey Hall of Fame and executive for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association^[159]

Notable professors

• Jean-Gabriel Castel, private international law, decorated member of French Resistance^{[160][161][162]}
• Peter Hogg, Canadian constitutional law, authored most-cited book at Supreme Court of Canada^{[163][164][165]}
• Gord Kirke, sports and entertainment lawyer^[127]
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, international and human rights law, also UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity^[166]
• David Vaver, intellectual property law, also Emeritus Professor at Oxford University^[167][168]
• Poonam Puri, recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40TM award and Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award^[169]

See also

• List of law schools in Canada

References

Footnotes

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

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