Platformsafrica
Rofeequr Adeola-Yusuf
Thursday June 2, 2022
Dean of Law, University of Calgary, Canada, Professor Ian
Holloway has declared with excitement that all the nine Law Graduates with LLM
at University’s 2022 Convocation are Nigerians.
Professor Holloway who disclosed this on Twitter, shared the
names of all the students.
‘This is cool. We have 9 students graduation with their LLMs
today. All are Nigerian!’ – Ian Holloway, Dean of Law, University of Calgary, Canada,”
he wrote on Twitter.
The U of C Faculty of Law has approximately 31 full-time
faculty and 300 students in the JD program. With 130 first year spots and
approximately 1200 applicants per year, this law school has an acceptance rate
of less than 10%
The U of C is consistently ranked among the top 200 law
schools in the world
Calgary College opened the first Faculty of Law in Calgary
in 1913. However, the college permanently disbanded at the outbreak of World
War I in 1914 . The only law school in Alberta for the next 62 years was the
Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
In 1971 an ad hoc committee with representation from the
Bench and the Bar strongly recommended creating the Faculty of Law at the U of
C. In 1973, a government committee made the same recommendation to the Alberta
Minister of Advanced Education.
Both the Calgary Bar and the City of Calgary sought ways to
make significant financial contributions for the development of a law library.
In September 1974, the Ministry of Advanced Education gave its final approval
to the proposal for the establishment of the Faculty of Law.
The Faculty of Law opened in 1976 with a first-year class of
sixty students and nine faculty members. In 2017, the Faculty of Law launched
its new five-year strategic plan, Energy-Innovation-Impact.
The University of Calgary is ranked fifth among Canada’s top
research universities in Re$earch Infosource Inc.’s latest Top 50 Research
Universities list released on Jan. 25, 2022. UCalgary is the youngest
university to have reached the top five.
“When we announced our Eyes High vision to become recognized
as a top-five research university, we knew it was an ambitious goal — but we
also knew it was achievable,” says Dr. Ed McCauley, president and
vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary. “I am thrilled that this
recognition is starting to be realized by objective ranking systems. I
congratulate the campus community on this achievement. It was a collective
effort, and we share in this success and all that will come next.”
UCalgary’s fifth-place rank among Canadian universities is
based on the $457 million of sponsored research income generated in 2019-20.
Since the submission of this data, UCalgary has also publicized the
institution’s 2021 sponsored research income total of $504 million — a 10.3 per
cent increase over 2019-20.
“This increase in funding demonstrates that our research is
highly relevant, and pursuing bold new solutions to society’s complex
challenges,” says McCauley. “Research dollars also create opportunities: jobs
and training, experiential learning, access to cutting-edge facilities and an
expanded innovation ecosystem.”