Juris Doctor / Master of Business Administration MBA / JD

Program Overview & Highlights

For more than 50 years, Windsor Law has offered dynamic and innovative learning through a people-centered approach to legal education. We use law as an adaptive tool for social impact and offer a comprehensive and rigorous legal education.
Our focus on Access to Justice and Transnational Law shapes our approach. We provide a broad curriculum and unique opportunities to learn practical justice skills in a supportive environment that nurtures lifelong relationships and varied career paths.

At Windsor Law, our greatest asset is our people who are committed to helping you explore and achieve your dreams. Our professors are engaged in important research about current and significant legal and social issues. Our staff is dedicated to the betterment of the student experience and our students work together to form a vibrant intellectual and social community. Your personal and professional success is our priority.

The integrated JD/MBA program offers two powerful degrees through a condensed, four-year curriculum. This program promotes the integration of law and business through an interdisciplinary curriculum offered by Windsor Law and the Odette School of Business.

Windsor Law sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy, which is comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We are committed to ensuring Indigenous legal traditions and perspectives are fully acknowledged and respected in our teaching, research and community engagement.

25+ Indigenous events per year
40+ Faculty-led events per year
50+ Student-led events per year
7000+ Alumni worldwide

Learn More About Our Program

15+
EXTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES and growing every year
50+
CLINICAL PLACEMENTS and growing every year

What Lancers Are Saying

Aya El-Hashemi
My time at Windsor Law has felt like coming full circle. I did my BHSc and MSc right here at the University of Windsor, so choosing to stay for my JD wasn't really a hard decision. This city and this university have shaped so much of who I am, and I wanted my legal career to grow out of the very city I am committed to serving. What's stood out most is how much law school has pushed me to think about law as service. Through my work with the National Council of Canadian Muslims, coordinating our Legal Volunteer Support Program, I've been privileged to see firsthand how legal knowledge becomes meaningful when it's put in service of a community. And beyond the academics, this community has just been home. Windsor is a small enough city that the relationships you build in law school actually last. I'm articling here after graduation, at Miller Canfield, and that decision came directly out of wanting to keep building in the community that built me.

Aya El-Hashemi

JD, 2027
Leonardo Lombardi
Enrolling in law school at the University of Windsor has been a life changing experience for me as well as a dream come true. I have gained not only a valuable legal education in the classroom, but also crucial professional competencies from participating in the numerous volunteer and extracurricular opportunities offered at the school. It is thanks to the University of Windsor and the Faculty of Law that I had access to these incredible opportunities to set me up for my future career.

Leonardo Lombardi

JD, 2028

Admission Requirements

High School Student from Canada

Admissions Policy: No one single factor is solely determinative of admission to the law school. The Admissions Committee assesses applications in light of the criteria set out below and the chief source of information about applicants is that which is provided by them in their Personal Profile. Applicants should take care to present a full and rounded view of themselves in their Personal Profile. The admissions criteria and procedures for the current entering class are set out below.

Objective: The objective of the admissions policy is to select students who will excel in the study of law and who have the potential to contribute creatively and meaningfully to the law school and the community.

Criteria: The majority of applicants are considered by the Admissions Committee in the framework of the following criteria:

  1. University Program: This category comprises undergraduate average and academic performance trends in light of relevant considerations; awards and prizes; the nature and content of the program taken; the level of any degree(s) or diplomas obtained.
  2. Work Experience: Part-time, summer and full-time work experience is analyzed for signs of organizational and administrative skills as well as initiative. Vocational, professional or other special qualifications will be considered.
  3. Community Involvement: Contribution to the community (city/town; university; religious; etc.) will be assessed for indications of commitment to the community. Factors examined include the nature of the applicant’s participation in service clubs, community service organizations, religious, athletic, and social organizations.
  4. Personal Accomplishments: Factors can include extracurricular activities, hobbies and special accomplishments; artistic and athletic accomplishments; communication skills and languages spoken.
  5. Career Objectives: The applicant’s career objectives, including how and where the legal education will be employed, are considered.
  6. Personal Considerations: Personal factors affecting the applicant are recognized in this section. Any personalfactors such as illness, bereavement, unusual family responsibilities or other such circumstances which may have some bearing on the applicant’s qualifications will be noted.
  7. Law School Admission Test Scores: All applicants must write the Law School Admission Test (LSAT).

 

Admission Deadlines


November 1: First-Year Entry

April 15: Dual JD Entry

May 1: Upper-Year Entry

Language Requirements

Academic Calendars

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