FEATURE – EXCERPT FROM THE JANUARY 2005 RICHARDSON –

LAW SCHOOL BOUND NEWSLETTER - 2005 CANADIAN LAWYER LAW SCHOOL SURVEY

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Canadian Lawyer Magazine conducts an annual survey of Canadian

law schools. The results were written up by Kirsten McMahon in

the January 2005 issue of Canadian Lawyer.

As usual (as long as law schools exist this will be the issue)

many students complained that the law schools should focus more

on practical skills training and less on theory. On the other

hand the author quotes one University Of Windsor student as

saying:

"There just be some reason that they call it law school and not

lawyer school."

It was also interesting to note that some students expressed

concern about the quality of their fellow students. The

suggestion is that the law schools should look for more well

rounded students in the admissions process and place less

emphasis on grades and LSAT scores (I can think of a lot of

people who would agree with this).

In any case, here are the results in order (to put these in

context you should read the article):

1. University Of Victoria - Final Grade B+

2. University Of Toronto - Final Grade B

3. University of New Brunswick - Final Grade B

4. Osgoode Hall - Final Grade B

5. University Of Western Ontario - Final Grade B

6. University Of Alberta - Final Grade B

7. University Of Saskatchewan - Final Grade B

8. Queen's University - Final Grade B

9. University Of Ottawa - Final Grade B-

10. University Of Manitoba - Final Grade B-

11. University Of Windsor - Final Grade B-

12. Dalhousie University - Final Grade B-

13. University Of British Columbia - Final Grade C+

The results were compiled from a survey and were based on the

following criteria:

Curriculum, faculty, Caring Profs, Students, Testing, Facilities,

Practice Relevance, Percent of students who recommend the school.

The following schools did not get sufficient responses to be

included:

Civil Law Schools - University of Quebec at Montreal; University

of Sherbrooke; University of Laval

Common Law Schools - University Of Calgary; University of Moncton

(French common law)

Joint Civil and Common Law Degree - McGill

Those interested in seeing the survey methodology can visit: