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The University of Toronto Faculty of Law (U of T Law, UToronto Law) is the law school of the University of Toronto. Originally founded in 1887, the Faculty is one of the oldest law faculties in Canada, although it was not until 1958 that the Faculty was officially recognized as an accredited institution by the Law Society of Upper Canada when the Society relinquished its monopoly on legal education. The Faculty's small size and prestige make its admissions process the most selective of any law school in Canada. Currently, the Faculty offers the JD (formerly LLB), LLM, SJD, MSL, and GPLLM degrees in law. The Faculty has consistently been ranked as the top law school in Canada by Maclean's since it began to publish law school rankings.
Among its alumni are one Canadian Prime Minister, three leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada, three Chiefs of Staff to the Prime Minister, two Premiers of Ontario, two Mayors of Toronto, and thirteen Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, including three of the nine currently-sitting Justices (Rosalie Abella, Russell Brown, and Michael J. Moldaver) - more than any other law school. The deans of Canada's top ranked law schools (Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Queen's) are all Toronto Law graduates. Additionally, the deans of Oxford Law Faculty (top-ranked in Britain), Columbia Law School, and the University of Alberta Faculty of Law are all currently U of T Law alumni.
The current Dean of the Faculty of Law (as of January 1, 2015) is Professor Edward Iacobucci, who studied economics at Queen's, law at Toronto, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. His father, Frank Iacobucci, is a former Dean of the law school and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.