This re-conception of legal education has proven to be the enduring key to our success and has carried our Faculty to pre-eminence among law schools in Canada and into the ranks of the very best law schools in the world.
This year, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the modern Faculty of Law and its founding vision of academic legal education. We celebrate a distinctive scholarly ethos and approach to legal education, fuelled by rigorous, analytical, critical, cross-category and cross-disciplinary thinking, undergirded by a strong sense of community.
We kicked off our celebratory year with a gala event on Saturday, September 14:
Inspired by the "Law Follies" tradition — poking fun at the quirks of law school and the legal profession — students, alumni, professors and former deans took to the stage, in what proved to be a night of uproarious laughter and nostalgic reflection. A special thanks to the night's master of ceremonies, Bob Rae (LLB 1977), Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN.
Truly a unique celebration and an unforgettable homage to the past, present and future of U of T Law!
Keep an eye on your inbox for upcoming Law 75 event invitations:
Law 75
Women in Law Photo exhibit at the Faculty Grand Mooters Reunion Dean's Cecil A. Wright Key Reunion
Named Lectures
November 18, 2024 John Ll. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture Senator Kim Pate, CM: "Reconciliation requires us to decolonize, decriminalize and decarcerate"
January 9, 2025 David B. Goodman Lecture Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy, Georgetown Law
January 30, 2025 John A. Tory Lecture The Hon. Frank Iacobucci, Senior Counsel, Torys LLP Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Dean Emeritus of U of T Law
April 2, 2025 Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture Professor Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, NYU School of Law
Conference
Our 75th anniversary year will culminate in our second Law in a Changing Worldconference, March 27-28, 2025.
Current Faculty members will engage the conference theme “looking forward by looking back,” reflecting on pivotal contributions to scholarship and legal development over the last seven decades by former faculty.
