Peter A. Allard School of Law

It was renamed from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 2015 to honour a $30,000,000 gift from Peter Allard, an alumnus, which followed a 2011 gift from him of about $12,000,000. • Illustration — Aerial view of Allard Hall, home of Peter A. Allard School of Law, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)

• Name — Peter A. Allard School of Law • Motto — Fiat justitia ruat cœlum • Motto Eng — Let justice be done though the heavens fall • Type — Public Law School • Head Label — Dean • Head — Bruce MacDougall (pro tem) • City — Vancouver • State — British Columbia • Country — Canada • Students — 600 (2013) • Website — https: allard.ubc.ca

UBC offered lectures in law from 1920, but the university's faculty of law was established in 1945, and was served by George F. Curtis (1906–2005) as the founding dean, until he retired in 1971. Because it lacked adequate infrastructure, the law school used army huts from World War II, until a permanent structure was built in 1951, which was named after Curtis; it was replaced by Allard Hall in 2009. In recognition of a donation from UBC law alumnus Peter A. Allard, the law school was renamed the Peter A. Allard School of Law, on 22 January 2015; previously, it had been named University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Allard is the son of one-time Edmonton Oilers co-owner, Dr. Charles "Chuck" Allard, who also brought the SCTV sketch comedy television series to Edmonton.

In 2023, both QS World and Times Higher Education ranked Allard the second-best common law school in the Canada, ranking behind the University of Toronto. Academically, the school is amongst the most selective in the nation, with a median LSAT score of 166, or the 91st percentile, for the entering class of 2022. In 2024, the Times Higher Education ranked Allard the third-best law school within Canada, and the 37th in the world. At least five of Allard's current faculty are former Rhodes scholars, with many more serving as former law clerks at the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Illustration — UBC Allard Law Building The school is located at the University of British Columbia's campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2011 it moved out of its former building, a Fred Hollingsworth designed brutalist-style building with malfunctioning heating and cooling and into a new building that had recently been completed. The building cost around $56,000,000; the university used $21,000,000 of its own funds and the rest came from donations, including $12,000,000 from The Law Foundation of B.C. In 2011 shortly before students and faculty began moving in, Peter Allard, an alumnus, donated about $12,000,000 to the school, with about $10,000,000 of it going to complete the capital campaign; the building was named after him.

The University of British Columbia Law Review is the school's official law review and is published by the UBC Law Review Society. Similar to the Harvard Law Review, the editorial process and business of the Society is run by Juris Doctor students, while manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed by professors with specialized knowledge of the subject matter. It was first published in 1949 as a collection of legal essays entitled the UBC Legal Notes. In 1959, it officially became the UBC Law Review. It was incorporated as a non-profit society in 1966. The UBC Law Review is a top ranking scholarly publication in Canada and globally, alongside the University of Toronto Law Journal and McGill Law Journal.

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• Donald Brenner, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia • Kim Brooks, dean of both law and management at Dalhousie University • Kim Campbell, first woman prime minister of Canada • Joe Clark, former prime minister of Canada withdrew after first-year at Allard School of Law. • Ujjal Dosanjh, 33rd premier of British Columbia • Ed Fast, former minister of international trade, Member of Parliament for Abbotsford since 2006 • Lance Finch, former Chief Justice of British Columbia. • Thomas Martin Franck, international law scholar and NYU law professor emeritus, former editor-In-chief of the American Journal of International Law. • Frank Iacobucci, former Supreme Court of Canada justice and former dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. • Ted Lee, former diplomat and historian, former governor of Canada to the International Atomic Energy Agency. • Mark Okerstrom, 2004 president/CEO of Expedia Group • Bud Smith, former attorney general of BC • Ari Taub (born 1971), Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler • Jody Wilson-Raybould, former attorney general of Canada Minister of Justice, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville