Rethinking Admissions by Numbers: Race Conscious Approaches to Law School for Black Applicants

​Black people in Canada are underrepresented in the legal profession and the judiciary. Yet, as gatekeepers of the profession, several Canadian law schools have not adopted race conscious approaches to admissions that could increase these numbers and reverse decades of historical discrimination Black Canadians have experienced. In this panel, speakers from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University will describe three different approaches to race conscious admissions pursued at their respective institutions. Hear their insights to learn more about what other Canadian law schools can do.

​This is a hybrid event, held both in person (Allard Hall, 104) and zoom.

​Pizza provided for in-person participants. Contact cfls@allard.ubc.ca for questions.

​This event is co-sponsored by the Anti-Racism and the Law Initiative, the Black Law Students' Association, and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.

​We respectfully acknowledge that this event is organized and held on traditional, ancestral, and unceded Coast Salish homelands including the territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations—where many of us are settlers and uninvited guests