Maclean’s first-ever ranking of Canada’s law schools
Law has always been among the most competitive of professional schools. So how do Canada's law schools compare?
Common Law Schools ranking
Canada’s law schools have been evaluated according to three measures of student/graduate quality, worth 50 per cent, and one measure of faculty quality, also worth 50 per cent. All measures were calculated relative to the size of each school. Elite Firm Hiring is worth 25 per cent; National Reach, a measure of how widely employed a school’s graduates are, is worth 15 per cent; and Supreme Court Clerkships is weighted at 10 per cent. Faculty Citations is a measure assessing how often other academics cite each school’s professors.
Civil Law Schools ranking
Sixteen of Canada’s law schools are common law schools, the law of the Anglo tradition, and of most provinces. But five schools are civil law schools. Civil and common law schools were evaluated according to the same criteria. Ottawa is the only civil law school located outside of Quebec; the University of Ottawa’s faculty of law offers two distinct streams, civil and common. McGill offers both common and civil law training, but in one program. The Université de Moncton, though operating entirely in French, is also a common law school.
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