Université de Montréal Faculty of Law
Faculty of law at Université de Montréal
The Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal in Canada was officially founded in 1892. In 2018, the Faculty was ranked by Times Higher Education as the best francophone law school in the world. In addition to its civil law degree (LL.B.), the Law School offers a one-year J.D. in common law for Quebec civil law graduates that enables them to take the bar exam in other Canadian provinces and in New York, Massachusetts and California.
UdeM Faculty of Law is bilingual. The languages of instruction are French for LL.B. and most LL.M. programs, with the J.D. and LL.D. program being bilingual French-English and some programs (such as the LL.M. in Business Law in a Global Context) being in English only.
History
The Faculty was originally a branch of Québec City's Université Laval in Montréal. It became part of the Université de Montréal upon its foundation in 1920. Between 1895 and 1942, the Faculty was located on St. Denis St. in Montréal.
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