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2013 - Into the Future

New Artist in Residence Fellowship program created. The LLM specializing in Canadian Common Law is established at the Osgoode Professional Development Centre. The Disability Law Intensive program is offered in conjunction with the ARCH...

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2013 - Into the Future

2011 - If I Had A Hammer

Madam Justice Andromache Karakatsanis ‘80 is appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Anti-Discrimination Intensive Program is launched under the academic direction of Professor Bruce Ryder. The Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS...

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2011 - If I Had A Hammer

2009 - The Last Court of Resort

The Innocence Project helps secure the release of Romeo Phillion, after 31 years of wrongful incarceration. The Hennick Centre for Business and Law opens. The professional LLM program in International Business Law is established. The...

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2009 - The Last Court of Resort

2008 - Back on Top

Osgoode is ranked the #1 law school in Canada by Macleans magazine. The Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL) celebrates its two year anniversary. IP Osgoode, the innovative Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Technology program...

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2008 - Back on Top

2007 - A Banner Year

The Law Commission of Ontario, which operates independently of the government to recommend law reforms, makes its home at Osgoode. Osgoode students sweep the mooting competitions and bring home the Arnup Cup, the Sopinka Cup, and the...

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2007 - A Banner Year

2006 - Service Before Self

Osgoode becomes the first Canadian law school to introduce a public interest graduation requirement, to promote the ethic of community service and public-mindedness. Students are required to complete forty hours of unpaid, law related...

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2006 - Service Before Self

2005 - A Good Apple

The Moot Court undergoes renovations. Osgoode hosts the Raoul Wallenberg Day International Human Rights Symposium. Osgoode announces a joint program with New York University School of Law. Under the program, students spend two years at...

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2005 - A Good Apple

2004 - Hail and Farewell

Osgoode sends a team to Vienna, Austria, to compete in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot against 42 other law schools from the world. The Osgoode team wins the competition, becoming the first Canadian law school...

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2004 - Hail and Farewell

2000 - You’ve Got Options

There is a major overhaul of the first-year curriculum that includes the introduction of a compulsory course in legal ethics. The Business Law Intensive is introduced. Osgoode expands its student exchange agreements to include law...

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2000 - You’ve Got Options

1998 - Knowledge to Share

York University Law Library becomes the Osgoode Hall Law School Library as the School assumes control of the administration. Peter Hogg becomes Dean of Osgoode. Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour, of the International Criminal Tribunal for...

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1998 - Knowledge to Share

1997 - In Pursuit of Justice

Professors Dianne Martin ’76 and Alan Young ’81 found Osgoode’s Innocence Project. Based on the original Innocence Project created by the Cardozo School of Law in New York City, Osgoode’s Innocence Project investigates cases of suspected...

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1997 - In Pursuit of Justice

1996 - Serving Toronto’s Communities

The Osgoode Business Clinic is founded. Staffed primarily by Osgoode Hall Law School student-volunteers, the clinic provides basic legal advice to individuals starting small enterprises who could not otherwise afford a lawyer. Parkdale...

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1996 - Serving Toronto’s Communities

1995 - Benvenuto

Dean Marilyn Pilkington spearheads a new Professional Development Program, which oversees the continuing legal education of law graduates by offering part-time graduate programs, non-credit courses, and various one or two day programs...

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1995 - Benvenuto

1994 - Fair and Equal Representation

The Aboriginal Intensive Program in First Nations Lands, Resources, and Governance is established as a pilot project by Osgoode graduate Susan Hare and Professor Alan Grant. Osgoode holds its first Flaming Feminist Cabaret and Cotillion...

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1994 - Fair and Equal Representation

1993 - Fostering Excellence

Marilyn L. Pilkington is appointed Dean of Osgoode. She is the first female dean of a law faculty in Ontario. The Osgoode Alumni Association creates the Mentor Program to help first-year students adjust to law school by matching them with...

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1993 - Fostering Excellence

1991 - Honourable Friends

As part of the Law School’s centennial celebrations, retroactive LLB degrees are offered to lawyers who were called to the bar before Osgoode Hall became a degree-granting institution in 1957. Among the 2000 recipients are Frederick...

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1991 - Honourable Friends

1990 - The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies opens at Osgoode

It is intended to encourage creative discussion and other initiatives concerning feminism and law among academics, students, and members of the legal profession. The Immigration and Refugee Law Intensive is introduced as a way for students...

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1990 - The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies opens at Osgoode

1989 - Reaching for Utopia

Osgoode Hall Law School celebrates its centennial. Dianne Martin ‘76 joins the Osgoode faculty. Three justices of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union visit and sit in on Trial Practice class, where they participate in a half-hour mock...

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1989 - Reaching for Utopia

1988 - The Boys (and Girls) of Summer

A national conference on the Free Trade Agreement is held at Osgoode. Osgoode student representatives take first place in the final round of the Niagara International Moot competition against the team from Dalhousie. A controversial ban...

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1988 - The Boys (and Girls) of Summer

1987 - La Belle Province

The Obiter Dicta celebrates its 60th anniversary. James Curry MacPherson is appointed Dean of Osgoode, while Louise Arbour becomes the Associate Dean. An exchange program between the new Centre for Research in Public Law and Public Policy...

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1987 - La Belle Province

1984 - Into the Future

The Osgoode Hall Law Journal is now run jointly by students and faculty. Faculty members actively solicit contributions and provide overall direction, while students oversee the daily work of the Journal. Editing is now done on a...

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1984 - Into the Future

1983 - You Can’t Hug Your Children with Nuclear Arms

The student group Lawyers for Social Responsibility is founded and holds a Disarmament Week in protest of the use of cruise missiles by NATO. The First Award of Excellence is given to John J. Robinette, Q.C. The award honours Osgoode Hall...

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1983 - You Can’t Hug Your Children with Nuclear Arms

1982 - The Free and Democratic Society

The Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association is inaugurated. John D. McCamus is appointed Dean of Osgoode. Osgoode students help process small claims court actions against the Metro Toronto Police Force for assault, as part of the...

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1982 - The Free and Democratic Society

1978 - Out at Osgoode

A Gay Caucus is formed at the Law School to provide support for LGBT individuals. In response to the raiding of the Pink Triangle’s offices in Toronto and the charging of the editorial staff with the criminal charge of obscenity, the Gay...

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1978 - Out at Osgoode

1977 - The Good Book

Stanley Beck becomes Dean. Professor Peter Hogg writes Constitutional Law of Canada, the single-most cited book in the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. Can you spot the famous politician in this picture? (Hint: look at the bottom...

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1977 - The Good Book

1976 - Who’s That Lady?

Louise Arbour and Mary Jane Mossman become the first women to teach as full-time faculty members of the Law School during the 1976-1977 school year. Osgoode adopts a comprehensive policy on admission for mature students, Aboriginal...

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1976 - Who’s That Lady?

1975 - One Planet, One Experiment

The Clinical Education Programme begins with the Intensive Programme in Criminal Law; and the LLB/Master of Environmental Science degree is introduced. This is a poster for the LLB/MES film series, 1970-1979.

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1975 - One Planet, One Experiment

1973 - Doing It For Themselves

It is recommended that women be added to the faculty to provide female students with role models and diminish the excessively masculine atmosphere of the Law School. Judy LaMarsh ‘50 becomes a visiting Professor of Law at Osgoode. This...

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1973 - Doing It For Themselves

1973 - Complementary Knowledge

The first issue of alumni magazine Continuum is printed. The curriculum is expanded to include a joint-degree leading to an LLB/MBA. The combined degree is the first of its kind in Canada. Osgoode’s timing couldn’t have been better. New...

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1973 - Complementary Knowledge

1972 - The Next Generation

Osgoode Hall Law School grants its first Bachelor of Laws degree. The Class of 1972 is the first to begin and complete their legal studies at York University. Harry Arthurs becomes the Dean of Osgoode. This is the Yonge and Finch plaza in...

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1972 - The Next Generation

1971 - Trouble in Paradise

A student-staffed community legal services clinic is established at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Professor Fred Zemans serves as its first director, and Professor Mary Jane Mossman is its first articling student. Members of the Law...

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1971 - Trouble in Paradise

1970 - The Unquiet Revolution

Osgoode forms a Clinical Training Committee to supervise the activities of the Community and Legal Assistance Services Programme (CLASP). The original committee includes Professors William Neilson, Garry Watson, Stephen Borins, and...

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1970 - The Unquiet Revolution

1969 - Books and Brutalism

The new Osgoode Hall Law School building and library opens at York University. Reviews are mixed, with the Toronto Star columnist Harvey Cowan calling the Brutalist-inspired architecture a piece of “visual indigestion.” This is the newly...

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1969 - Books and Brutalism

1968 - Not Your Baby

Cut-and-paste pin-ups would appear sporadically in the Obiter Dicta throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, until female law students fed up with the casual sexism of the newspaper would succeed in getting the feature removed.

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1968 - Not Your Baby

1968 - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Osgoode Hall Law School is officially affiliated with York University. The School will remain downtown for one more year until the building at York is ready. Osgoode becomes the first law school to allow upper-year students to choose their...

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1968 - Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

1966 - The Right to Counsel

The Community Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) is established. Under the supervision of practising lawyers, Osgoode students provide legal services to members of the community who would otherwise be unable to afford representation...

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1966 - The Right to Counsel

1965 - A New Home

The Benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada unanimously approve in principle the affiliation of the Law School with York University. York agrees to construct a new building and library and take the name ‘Osgoode Hall Law School.’ Here...

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1965 - A New Home

1959 - Hello Again

York University opens. Ironically, it is first located in Falconer Hall, directly across from the University of Toronto’s Law School.

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1959 - Hello Again

1958 - Blast from the Past

To accommodate the increased class sizes, a new wing of the Law School opens at the rear of the Osgoode Hall. It is full almost as soon as it opens. This is the newly renovated student cafeteria.

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1958 - Blast from the Past

1958 - Building Tradition

Herbert Allan Borden Leal is appointed Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. The first issue of the Osgoode Hall Law School Journal is published. This year also marks the end of the concurrent/part-time system (a combination of lectures and...

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1958 - Building Tradition

1957 - The Good Old Hockey Game

Professor Allan Leal coaches the Osgoode Hall hockey team throughout the decade. A young Roy McMurtry and future Professor R.J. Gray can be seen in this photo, one in from the right in the second row and bottom right, respectively. The...

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1957 - The Good Old Hockey Game

1957 - A Whole New World

Queen’s University and the University of Ottawa open their own law faculties, closely followed by Western University (Western Law School). The Law Society and universities agree that candidates to the Bar should have at least two years of...

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1957 - A Whole New World

1956 - Twist and Shout

Osgoode students host dances throughout the school year in Convocation Hall and annual At-Homes at the Royal York Hotel.

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1956 - Twist and Shout

1953 - An International Reputation

The Law Society receives numerous applications from recent immigrants seeking certification to practice law in Canada. The Law Society requires them to requalify by attending the Law School. By the end of the decade, the School would have...

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1953 - An International Reputation

1952 - Raising Morale

All Osgoode entrants now must have a bachelor’s degree. Despite the more rigorous admission requirements, classes will double in size by 1960. Three years later, the Society announces a $1.3 million investment to expand the Law School to...

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1952 - Raising Morale

1950 - “Fair Barristers”

Janet Boland and Judy LaMarsh graduate. The presence of women in a graduating class was frequently commented upon by the press, setting them aside for special comment. Women in the Law School were the exception rather than the rule. Roy...

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1950 - “Fair Barristers”

1950 - A Rocky Start

Osgoode is still reeling from the loss of its more experienced faculty members and looks to its young, full-time staff members like Allan Leal, Desmond Morton, and Donald Spence to pick up the slack. At least school spirit has improved...

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1950 - A Rocky Start

1949 - The Great Divorce

The Law Society’s Committee on Legal Education releases its majority report, recommending that office-based training be improved and that the benchers closely supervise the Law School. Blind-sided by the Society’s decision, Cecil Wright...

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1949 - The Great Divorce

1948 - A Mad Rush

Students scramble to find articling positions. Some firms take on extra students but have little for them to do, while others that are short on juniors or support staff use them as cheap labor. Some students and firms resort to sham...

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1948 - A Mad Rush

1948 - Here Comes Trouble

John Falconbridge announces his retirement. The brilliant and intimidating Cecil Wright is appointed Dean. Wright expects to make Osgoode Hall a full-time law school or complete arrangements to move the law program to the University of...

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1948 - Here Comes Trouble

1947 - Hanging from the Rafters

Enrolment at the law school swells to over 700 students, as returning veterans take advantage of the benefits offered by the Veteran’s Rehabilitation Act to receive a post-secondary education. Due to overcrowding, students are moved to the...

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1947 - Hanging from the Rafters

1945 - Small Class Sizes

Enrolment in the Law School dips to 450 students. Sidney Smith, a former law school lecturer and friend of Caesar Wright, returns to Ontario as the President of the University of Toronto. He tells a University of Toronto committee on legal...

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1945 - Small Class Sizes

1943 - Come On, Canada!

At home, Osgoode students continue to support their classmates despite their reduced numbers. The Obiter Dicta publishes lists of individuals serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, messages of encouragement from Dean Falconbridge...

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1943 - Come On, Canada!

1943 - Playing Catch-Up

Similar to the First World War, Osgoode Hall formed its own contingent of the Canadian Officer’s Training Corps. Here they are at Niagara Camp, 1940. The Law School agrees that unlike what was offered to returning World War I veterans...

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1943 - Playing Catch-Up

1942 - Long-Distance Education

The Law Society of Upper Canada forms the Special Committee on Wartime Educational Services. As a result, Osgoode Hall becomes one of the sponsors of an informal Commonwealth law school in overseas prison camps. Captain J.R. Turnbull...

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1942 - Long-Distance Education

1939 - Worst Exams Ever

The Law Society Committee on Legal Education institutes an elaborate test of how effectively students are learning from their articling experience. With practising lawyers acting as volunteer oral examiners, all graduating students are...

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1939 - Worst Exams Ever

1938 - Shiny and New

The Benchers agree to provide new lecture rooms, library space and an exam hall. Finally, robing facilities are created for both men and women. There are numerous renovations to Convocation Hall that turn it into a lecture theatre that is...

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1938 - Shiny and New

1937 - Fighting Back

The Phillips Stewart Library is expanded. Osgoode Hall students decide to form their own committee and report back on their concerns regarding legal education.

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1937 - Fighting Back

1935 - Ignoring the Results?

The Law Society’s Committee on Legal Education recommends that there be no expansion of the academic program and expresses regret that a university degree appears to be of more value than practical experience. Classroom hours are reduced...

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1935 - Ignoring the Results?

1933 - Academia vs. Practical Experience

The Law Society of Canada appoints a special committee in June to consider legal education. They commission submissions from the Osgoode Hall faculty, other law societies, students and practitioners, as well as local and national law...

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1933 - Academia vs. Practical Experience

1932 - Changing Admission Requirements

The minimum standard for admission as student-at-law returns to passing marks upon graduation from high school, plus either graduating from high school with Honours or the completion of the first year of university. View of Osgoode Hall...

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1932 - Changing Admission Requirements

1931 - Tough Times

The law firms that do not collapse in the stock market crash of 1929 cut back on staff. To make things worse, student fees have just been raised. Even students with articling positions are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table...

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1931 - Tough Times

1929 - Of Good Character

The Law Society makes character references mandatory for students applying to law school. Famed criminal lawyer J.J. Robinette and Frederick Catzman, author of the Bulk Sales Act of Ontario, graduate. Robinette wins the Gold Medal, while...

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1929 - Of Good Character

1927 - Newshawks

The first issue of the Obiter Dicta hits the presses. Cecil Wright, class of 1926, returns to Law School to teach. The Osgoode Hall Literary and Athletic Society, 1928-1929.

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1927 - Newshawks

1926 - How Much Should We Know?

The Law Society of Upper Canada adopts the Canadian Bar Association’s recommendation that two years of university training be a prerequisite to legal studies. York Street from the Osgoode gates, 1927.

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1926 - How Much Should We Know?

1925 - Champions

The Osgoode Hall football team makes a comeback in the Ontario Intercollegiate Union. The Osgoode Hall Intercollegiate football team, 1925.

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1925 - Champions

1923 - A New Era

John Delatre Falconbridge (1875-1968) is appointed the Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. Falconbridge would serve as Dean for twenty-five years, and is second only to Newman Wright Hoyles, who served for twenty-nine years. This is the...

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1923 - A New Era

1920 - A “Portia” Made Good

A second summer session is held for returning veterans. Convocation then suspends the veterans’ blanket exemption, stating that sufficient time had elapsed for veterans to seek to benefit from their service. Helen Kinnear, the first woman...

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1920 - A “Portia” Made Good

1919 - A Return to Normalcy?

After years of low enrolment, Osgoode is coping with its largest classes. The Law School creates a special summer session for returning veterans that allows them to complete an academic year in a few months. The Law Society of Upper Canada...

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1919 - A Return to Normalcy?

1919 - “… to encourage the interchange of ideas and co-operation between women with legal training.”

Laura Denton Duff and Helen Currie gather together a handful of young women lawyers and law students in the offices of Frank Denton, K.C., Laura's father. They create the Women’s Law Association of Ontario. Barred from professional...

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1919 - “… to encourage the interchange of ideas and co-operation between women with legal training.”

1917 - Doing Their Bit

The benchers vote to return the admission fees of all students killed in action to their families. In total, the Law Society of Upper Canada has invested $70,000 in Canadian Victory Bonds. This Victory Bonds poster was created by F. L...

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1917 - Doing Their Bit

1915 - The Lost

Ninety-seven students are on active service on the Western Front. One hundred and thirteen names are memorialized on a wall in Osgoode Hall’s Great Library. Those who survived often lived with terrible physical and psychological injuries.

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1915 - The Lost

1915 - In Uniform

A motion passed by the Benchers gives enlisted Osgoode students a passing grade for the year in which they were registered, while third-year students are automatically called to the Bar. They also suspend the rule that requires students to...

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1915 - In Uniform

1914 - The Fighting Lawyer

World War I has begun. Lecturer Holford Ardagh and other Toronto lawyers form the Osgoode Hall Rifle Association to train lawyers, clerks, and law students without previous military experience. Most of the Rifle Association’s training...

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1914 - The Fighting Lawyer

1906 - The “King Eddy”

The Ontario Bar Association is established. This dinner was held at the glitzy King Edward Hotel in 1910. It would play host to numerous Osgoode graduation parties over the next few decades.

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1906 - The “King Eddy”

1905 - Room for Rent: No Hot Water, Shared Bathroom Outside

Principal Hoyles asks Convocation to provide a student common room, ‘something like a club for men,’ to provide a gathering place for law students living in cramped boarding-houses without sitting-rooms. Overcrowding and sub-par living...

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1905 - Room for Rent: No Hot Water, Shared Bathroom Outside

1904 - Academic Legal Education

John Cleland Hamilton writes Osgoode Hall: Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar and makes the suggestion that legal education should be turned over to University of Toronto. The Canadian Law Review describes Osgoode as a ‘splendid...

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1904 - Academic Legal Education

1901 - Vote the Douglas Ticket!

The Legal and Literary Society becomes the official student society of the Law School. Students had to be elected to their positions. Cards like this one would have been handed out as part of a campaign strategy in 1891. Candidates under...

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1901 - Vote the Douglas Ticket!

1897 - “Banish All Maiden Mawkishness”

Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman in Canada to be admitted to the Bar, also making her the first female lawyer in the British Commonwealth, after the Law Society of Upper Canada unenthusiastically changes its rule to admit women.

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1897 - “Banish All Maiden Mawkishness”

1895 - Benchers Scandalized by the ‘Introduction and Consumption’ of Liquor at a Debate

The Osgoode Literary and Legal Society organizes annual “At-Home” balls, musical-literary evenings, debates, mock trials, and elaborate dinners at Webster’s Parlours. This dance card was handed out at one of the “At-Homes” in 1892. A...

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1895 - Benchers Scandalized by the ‘Introduction and Consumption’ of Liquor at a Debate

1892 - The Legalites

The Osgoode hockey team, “The Legalites,” become the Ontario champions. They are responsible for establishing the Ontario Hockey Association. The Osgoode football team, the creatively named “Legals,” win the Canadian Football Championship...

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1892 - The Legalites

1892 - A Generous Bequest

A "students' library" is established in Osgoode Hall. Called the Phillips Stewart Library in recognition of the bequest from Thomas Brown Phillips Stewart, a poet and student-barrister, registered in the first year of the new school in...

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1892 - A Generous Bequest

1889 - Not-So-Humble Beginnings

Although Osgoode Hall can trace its history back to the 1820s, and count such Canadian luminaries as Sir John A. MacDonald among its graduates, it is in 1889 that Osgoode Hall is reorganized and the Law Society of Upper Canada permanently...

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1889 - Not-So-Humble Beginnings
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Though Osgoode Hall Law School's history dates back to the 1820s, it was first permanently established in 1889 and the first class was held in October. Osgoode's 125th anniversary in the 2014-2015 academic year is an occasion for telling more of our stories to more communities. Enjoy these historical vignettes!
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  • 1906 - The “King Eddy” by Frank William Micklethwaite

    1906 - The “King Eddy”

    The Ontario Bar Association is established. This dinner was held at the glitzy King Edward Hotel in 1910. It would play host to numerous Osgoode graduation parties over the next few decades.

  • 1914 - The Fighting Lawyer

    1914 - The Fighting Lawyer

    World War I has begun. Lecturer Holford Ardagh and other Toronto lawyers form the Osgoode Hall Rifle Association to train lawyers, clerks, and law students without previous military experience. Most of the Rifle Association’s training takes place at the Toronto Armouries just behind Osgoode Hall or at other military facilities. Here, men practice with bayonets at the Toronto Armouries.

  • 1915 - In Uniform

    1915 - In Uniform

    A motion passed by the Benchers gives enlisted Osgoode students a passing grade for the year in which they were registered, while third-year students are automatically called to the Bar. They also suspend the rule that requires students to wear barristers’ robes for the call to the Bar ceremony, allowing them to appear in military uniform.

  • 1915 - The Lost

    1915 - The Lost

    Ninety-seven students are on active service on the Western Front. One hundred and thirteen names are memorialized on a wall in Osgoode Hall’s Great Library. Those who survived often lived with terrible physical and psychological injuries.

  • 1917 - Doing Their Bit by F. L. Nicolet

    1917 - Doing Their Bit

    The benchers vote to return the admission fees of all students killed in action to their families. In total, the Law Society of Upper Canada has invested $70,000 in Canadian Victory Bonds. This Victory Bonds poster was created by F. L. Nicolet in 1918.

  • 1919 - A Return to Normalcy?

    1919 - A Return to Normalcy?

    After years of low enrolment, Osgoode is coping with its largest classes. The Law School creates a special summer session for returning veterans that allows them to complete an academic year in a few months. The Law Society of Upper Canada waives school and articling requirements for veterans, students receive one year of law school credit in recognition of their service.

  • 1919 - “… to encourage the interchange of ideas and co-operation between women with legal training.”

    1919 - “… to encourage the interchange of ideas and co-operation between women with legal training.”

    Laura Denton Duff and Helen Currie gather together a handful of young women lawyers and law students in the offices of Frank Denton, K.C., Laura's father. They create the Women’s Law Association of Ontario. Barred from professional organizations, the WLAO’s monthly meetings provided the sole source of continuing legal education for women lawyers. This is a toast card from a dinner held in 1927.

  • 1920 - A “Portia” Made Good by Park Brothers

    1920 - A “Portia” Made Good

    A second summer session is held for returning veterans. Convocation then suspends the veterans’ blanket exemption, stating that sufficient time had elapsed for veterans to seek to benefit from their service. Helen Kinnear, the first woman in the British Commonwealth to be appointed King’s Counsel, and John Robert Cartwright, future Chief Justice of Canada, graduate.

 

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