The Faculty of Law at Laval University, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in North America. It hosts more than 1,000 students in its curriculum of first, second and third years, with more than 45 lecturers teaching and supervising research projects in most areas of law. The research activity is particularly intense in the field of human rights and public freedoms in light of legal issues, economic law, environmental law and public law and private international trade.

Teaching and research are based on a law library with more than 200,000 documents, which receives subscriptions of several hundred legal periodicals from Quebec, Canada, and abroad.

Specializations

The Laval Faculty of Law allows for specializations in:

• Public law
• Commercial Law
• International Law
• Corporate Law
• Taxation Law
• Judicial Law
• Criminal Law
• Labour Law
• Commercial Law

Alumni

The Laval Law School has educated many prominent Canadians. Many alumni have distinguished themselves in English and French Canada, most notably, in the fields of the civil service, politics, the judiciary, and business.

Numerous public figures, including Prime Ministers of Canada, Premiers of Quebec, Supreme Court Justices, federal Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Lieutenant-Governors attended the Laval Faculty of Law.

Politicians:

• Louis St. Laurent
  Louis St. Laurent
  Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC , was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957....
  
   - Prime Minister of Canada
• Brian Mulroney
  Brian Mulroney
  Martin Brian Mulroney, was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S...
  
   - Prime Minister of Canada
• Jean Chrétien
  Jean Chrétien
  Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien , known commonly as Jean Chrétien is a former Canadian politician who was the 20th Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the position for over ten years, from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003....
  
   - Prime Minister of Canada
• Pierre Duchesne
  Pierre Duchesne
  Pierre Duchesne is the 28th and current Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and former secretary general of the National Assembly of Quebec.-Biography:A licentiate in Law from Université Laval, Pierre Duchesne had been a notary in Sept-Îles in 1966....
  
   - Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
• Edmund James Flynn
  Edmund James Flynn
  Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian politician and the tenth Premier of Quebec.-Background:Flynn, the son of Jacques Flynn and Elizabeth Tostevin, was born at Percé on November 16, 1847. He studied law at the Université Laval in Quebec City from 1871 to 1873, obtaining his degree with distinction. On...
  
   - Premier of Quebec 1896-1897
• Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
  Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was a the 14th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1920 to 1936. He was elected four times, the first in 1900, in the riding of Montmorency. He was also a member of the Parti libéral du Québec...
  
   - Premier of Quebec 1920-1936
• Jean Lesage
  Jean Lesage
  Jean Lesage, PC, CC, CD was a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the 19th Premier of Quebec from 22 June 1960, to 16 August 1966...
  
   - Premier of Quebec 1960-1966
• René Lévesque
  René Lévesque
  René Lévesque was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, , the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec...
  
   - (did not graduate) Premier of Quebec 1976-1985
• Lucien Bouchard
  Lucien Bouchard
  Lucien Bouchard, is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, politician and former Minister of the Environment of the Canadian Federal Government. He was the Leader of Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1996, and the 27th Premier of Quebec from January 29, 1996 to March 8, 2001...
  
   - Premier of Quebec 1996-2001, Leader of the Bloc Québécois
• Louis LeBel
  Louis LeBel
  Louis LeBel is a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.LeBel was born in Quebec City. He was the son of lawyer Paul LeBel, Q.C. He went to school at the Collège des Jésuites, graduating with a BA in 1958 from College des Jesuites. He earned his law degree at Université Laval in 1962 and...
  
   - Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Michael Meighen
  Michael Meighen
  Michael Arthur Meighen, QC is a Canadian senator, lawyer and cultural patron. A litigation and commercial lawyer who has practiced in Montreal and Toronto, he is a member of the Bars of both Ontario and Quebec....
  
   - Senator
• Michael Fortier
  Michael Fortier
  Michael M. Fortier, PC is a former Canadian Minister of International Trade and a former Conservative senator from Quebec...
  
   - Senator
• Raymond C. Setlakwe - Senator

Business:

• Former media magnate Conrad Black
  Conrad Black
  Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...
  
  
• Peter White
• William John Jacques Demers

Entertainment:

• Ben Mulroney
  Ben Mulroney
  Benedict Martin Paul "Ben" Mulroney is a Canadian television host, and is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.-Early life:...
  
  - television presenter

External links

• Faculté de droit, Université Laval (in French)