University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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Established in 1887, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is one of the oldest professional faculties at the University of Toronto.
The University of Toronto Law school is considered by many to be the best in Canada, especially in corporate law, and it provides many of the employees to Toronto's leading Bay Street law firms. Tuition fees for entering Juris Doctor students are set at C$16,000 in 2003-04. It is the first and only law school in Canada to offer the Juris Doctor instead of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B). This degree, however, is viewed as identical to an LL.B. degree offered by the other Canadian law schools. It is not accredited by the American Bar Association.
Today, has 57 full-time faculty members and 25 short-term visiting professors from the world's leading law schools, as well as 500 undergraduate and graduate students.
The school is located in the middle of the University of Toronto at the corner of Queen's Park Crescent and Hoskin St., just south of the Royal Ontario Museum.
In May 2005, longtime Law School dean Ronald J. Daniels was named Provost of the Ivy-League University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.