Prospective Students
Contact Information
Fauteux Hall
57 Louis Pasteur St
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5

Tel.:
(613) 562-5794
Fax:
(613) 562-5124

General Information: clawgen@uOttawa.ca
Admission: comlaw@uOttawa.ca

Upper Year Applicants

National Program Applicants

Le Programme national de la Section de common law de l’Université d’Ottawa vise l’immersion des juristes de formation civiliste diplômés d’une faculté de droit canadienne dans la tradition de common law, pendant huit mois, afin d’obtenir le grade de LL.B. – Programme national.

En raison de son héritage unique, le Canada est constitutionnellement bijuridique et bilingue. L’objet du Programme national est depuis toujours la formation de « juristes nationaux », qui comprennent et apprécient pleinement la richesse des diverses traditions juridiques canadiennes.

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Transfer Applicants

Transfer applications into the 2nd year of the LL.B. program will be accepted only from students who have successfully completed the first year of the LL.B. program in a Canadian Common Law School. Students who have undertaken or completed their legal studies outside Canada cannot apply in this category.

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Letter of Permission Applicants

Students who wish to complete one semester or one full year of their law studies at the University of Ottawa as visiting students, with the permission of their law school, can apply in this category.

 

 

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Lawyers Trained Outside Canada and National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) Applicants

Persons with a completed law degree from Quebec or from a foreign jurisdiction who wish to be admitted to the practice of law in a Canadian common law jurisdiction can apply to the National Committee on Accreditation for an assessment of the equivalency of their legal studies (established by the Council of Canadian Law Deans and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada). For further information on the accreditation process please contact the NCA directly.  More information can be found on the NCA web site at www.flsc.ca, under the Foreign Lawyers heading.

 

 

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Continuing Education and Special Students

Lawyers, who are members of the bar of a Canadian province or territory, may apply to take 2nd or 3rd-year courses in order to expand their knowledge in specific areas of the law.

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