University Of Calgary Faculty Of Law
The Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary was officially opened in 1976 with a first-year class of sixty students and nine faculty members. Currently, there are 21 faculty and approximately 300 students in total, giving the school one of the smallest class sizes of the Canadian law schools. Calgary has a large legal community, and boasts a diverse legal profession. The Faculty of Law has a strong connection with the Calgary legal community.
In the 2011 QS World University Rankings, the University of Calgary's law school is ranked in 39th position, the fourth highest ranked law school in Canada behind McGill University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia.
Read more about University Of Calgary Faculty Of Law: History of The Law School, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Law Deans, JD Program, LLM Program, Other Program Offerings, Student Services, Student Life and Activities, Canadian Institute of Resources Law, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, Facilities, Lest We Forget
Famous quotes containing the words university of, university, faculty and/or law:
“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
—Slogan by Czech university students in Prague, November 1989. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 26, 1989)
“The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“No law is sufficiently convenient to all.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)