Our Law & Justice Program
We approach the study of law, legal decision-making, and justice from a variety of viewpoints. Our program incorporates diverse legal traditions into the curriculum and investigates law from historical, social and philosophical perspectives.
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Our law and justice program is one of few such programs in Canada. Those that do exist often focus on criminology, rather than on legal traditions, institutions, and practices in their various current and historical forms and concepts. Criminology is the study of the anatomy of crime, specifically its causes, consequences, and costs. Law and justice, however, goes far beyond criminology, and provides students with a more well-rounded and holistic degree.
In our four-year program, students will acquire knowledge of the pattern of legal institutions required to regulate our political, social, and economic relations. Students will examine topics such as civil, criminal, family, corporate, constitutional, and contract law. They will study conventional, traditional, and alternative forms of justice and dispute resolution, as well as comparative, theoretical, and historical perspectives. The program helps students to understand law as a multidimensional and complex social phenomenon.
Within the program, students will develop a wide range of skills that apply beyond the study of law and justice. After completing a degree in law and justice, many of our students gain admission to law school and graduate programs, and also diploma programs at the college level. Students are also opened up to an array of career paths and opportunities, such as lawyer, paralegal, law enforcement, criminal investigator, forensic scientist technician, clerk, legal secretary, education (primary and secondary, colleges and universities), researcher, Indigenous researcher, immigration and border patrol services, civil servant, politics and policy, entrepreneur, and many more.
In all Canadian provinces, students are required to complete three years of an accredited law school AFTER their undergraduate degree, i.e., students cannot go directly from secondary school (high school) to law school. Admission to Canadian law schools is very competitive; students need a combination of a very high GPA in their undergraduate degree and a very high score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), among other requirements. An undergraduate degree in any major is acceptable to apply for Law School. Law School admission committees look for solid academic skills such as critical thinking, academic reading and writing, research, and problem solving developed throughout the candidates’ undergraduate studies. Algoma University’s Law and Justice programme, while not the only option for an undergraduate degree, provides a sound preparation for law school education with its well-rounded liberal arts curriculum, its broad-based view of the law, and its focus on the development of strong academic skills.
What You Can Expect
Hands-on learning, a close-knit campus community, and caring faculty.
Our Courses
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“The great thing about Algoma U is how well you get to know your professors because of the small class sizes. I’ve been able to get to know each of them really well over the last four years. All of them have been extremely helpful. While other larger universities can also offer you an excellent education, you may get lost in the crowd — that won’t happen at Algoma U. Algoma has provided me with a great undergraduate degree and has put me in a position to excel in law school.”
Ethan Campbell
BA, Law and Justice
“The law and justice program’s small class sizes provided mentorship with faculty that is not available at other schools. With this mentorship, I developed my own understanding of law, legal issues, and the mechanisms available to address them. The diversity of opportunities in the law and justice program prepared my classmates and I to move forward with careers in the legal profession, as well as public service, policy analysis, and program management.”
Nathan Chevalier
BA Hons, Law and Justice
“I valued the one-on-one experience with professors – they know you by name and not by a number. I also appreciated learning about the Anishinaabe culture, and the history of this site as a former residential school.”
Pauline E. Danquah
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