The Master of Studies in Law (MSL) program is designed for scholars with no prior training in law who wish to acquire a legal education and knowledge of law in order to add a legal dimension to scholarship in their own discipline.
The international reputation of the law school’s faculty, their breadth of interests and approaches, and the intensive intellectual atmosphere, create outstanding opportunities for graduate students pursuing advanced degrees.
Law faculty members are some of the finest doctrinal and theoretical legal scholars in public and private law. The diversity of research interests amongst the faculty allows them to supervise graduate research in almost all areas of legal scholarship. The pluralistic academic community invites a variety of approaches to legal scholarship including, but not limited to, feminism and the law, law and economics, legal history, law and society, analytical jurisprudence, and critical legal theory. Over a third of the faculty are cross-appointed to other units — a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship which encourages students to position their legal research within a broader, interdisciplinary context.
Expected September 2024
University of Toronto
St. George Campus,
27 King's College Circle,
TORONTO,
Ontario (ON),
M5S 1A1, Canada
Applicants must have completed at least a master's degree, and preferably a doctorate, from a recognized university with a demonstrated high level of scholarship in a discipline related to law. Applicants must have a least a B+ average in their final year of study. Preference will be given to applicants who have maintained this average throughout their studies.
Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English must show evidence of having taken one of the following tests:
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with the following minimum scores:
Paper-based TOEFL: minimum overall score of 600, and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE)
Internet-based TOEFL: minimum overall score of 100/120, and 24/30 on each section.
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS), Academic module, with an overall score of 7.5 with at least 7.0 in each component.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.