<York Calendars<Undergraduate Calendar 2001-2002<Osgoode Hall Law School

Osgoode's Mission

The Law School provides an excellent university education in law, for students intending to pursue careers in the legal profession and for those who seek to study law in an interdisciplinary context. The curriculum offers opportunities to develop technical and professional competence, but is broadly based and pluralistic. Students are encourages to explore the complex relationship between law and society and to consider the role of the legal system in, and responsibility of the legal profession for, achieving social justice. The Law School seeks to provide both generalist and specialist education in law, to play a creative and leading role in research and in the development of the law and legal institutions and to foster public service and social justice.