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Osgoode Hall Law School Moves Part-Time Studies to New Downtown Toronto Campus
The Osgoode Professional Development Centre -- located on the 26th floor of a high-rise office building at 1 Dundas Street West, at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets ñ will be the new home of the law school's part-time Master of Laws (LLM) degree programs and Continuing Legal Education courses, administered by the school's Professional Development Program. (The school's full-time undergraduate and graduate programs will continue to be offered at York University.)
In conjunction with the opening of the new professional development facility, Osgoode is launching Canada's first national part-time LLM specializing in E-Business Law.
Starting in January, classes in E-Business Law will be available to lawyers in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa (and possibly Montreal) using the latest in audio-visual and videoconference technology as well as teachers in each of the cities.
"The new Professional Development Centre has the tremendous advantage of being close to downtown Toronto law firms and public sector lawyers," says Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Peter Hogg. "We want to help lawyers to develop their knowledge of law at an advanced level. Our new part-time LLM program in E-Business Law is a good example of how Osgoode is responding to a rapidly changing economy."
The Professional Development Centre, which will host an Open House on Monday, October 30 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., has four professionally-designed learning spaces with excellent acoustics and lighting, comfortable furniture and modern teaching tools including a videoconference system. The Centre will also serve as the downtown home of York University's distance education initiative known as the Technology Enhanced Learning Project.
John Claydon, director of Osgoode's Professional Development Program, says the program is unique because it caters to both LLM and non-degree continuing education students. "That enables us to take advantage of synergies in the continuum of professional legal education. For example, we can enhance the quality of our Continuing Legal Education courses by involving our LLM students." Classes in both the degree and non-degree programs are taught by faculty from Osgoode and other institutions.
In the case of the new E-Business Law specialization, the regional directors are "some of the best people we could find right across the country," Claydon says.
They include national coordinator Edward Belobaba of Gowlings in Toronto and regional directors Robert Fashler of Davis & Company in Vancouver; Martin Kratz of Bennett Jones in Calgary; George S. Takach of McCarthy TÈtrault in Toronto; Roger TassÈ and Domenic Crolla of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Ottawa; and Michel Racicot of McCarthy TÈtrault in Montreal.
More than 300 students are enrolled in Osgoode's part-time LLM degree programs, of which there are 13 different areas of specialization including E-Business Law. Courses are generally taught one evening a week over a two-year period.
Osgoode also presents 40 Continuing Legal Education courses every year. Those courses run anywhere from one to eight days and cover every area of law.
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University is one of Canada's leading law schools with some of the country's most innovative law programs.
It was founded in 1889 when 50 students enrolled in classes that were held at Osgoode Hall at Queen St. and University Ave. in Toronto. The law school became affiliated with York in 1968, and moved into a new building on the university campus in 1969.
The Professional Development Program, which began in 1995, was offered at various locations throughout the Greater Toronto Area until this year when Osgoode opened its new downtown Toronto campus.
For further information, please contact:
Virginia Corner, Communications Manager
Barbara Tong, Assistant Director
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