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The Faculty of Law has adopted a modified honours-pass-fail grading system for new JD students starting September 2012. Students already in the JD program will continue to be graded according to the former grading system.

The Faculty of Law, after extensive consultation with faculty and students, revised the system to offer  more informative feedback to students, to enhance the information value of  transcripts for employers, courts and graduate schools, and to promote greater consistency in grades distribution.

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has once again landed the top spot on Maclean’s magazine annual Law School Rankings, posted online today. The rankings look at graduate quality, hiring rates to elite law firms, national scope of law alumni, number of Supreme Court of Canada clerkships, and faculty hiring, quality and number of journals citations.

The Faculty of Law was first in elite firm hiring rates, faculty hiring/quality and number of journal citations. The law school ranked second in number of SCC clerkships.

JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman has written an article in Maclean's magazine looking at the way many important issues facing the country are being tackled not by Parliament, but by the courts ("Harper v. The Judges," August 21, 2012).

Read the full article on the Maclean's website.

Prof. Anver Emon has published a new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law (Oxford University Press, 2012).

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