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Degree Planning & Course Selection
Examinations
Majors and Minors
Honours Program
Essay Forms
Clerkships, Moots, Legal Clinic
Exchanges and feedback
Prizes and Scholarships
Attestation Letters
Miscellaneous


Feedback for the SAO?

Did you recently visit the SAO? Let us know about your experience!

SAO Feedback Form [web]

Degree Planning & Course Selection

Verify your degree requirements (degree audit) according to your year of admission.

File BCL JD Program Degree Audit (2024)NEW!

*The new Degree Audit form can be used by any Faculty of Law student who began the program as of the 2020-2021 cohort year.

PDF icon Degree Audit 2023
PDF icon Degree Audit (2022)
PDF icon Degree Audit 2021
PDF icon Degree Audit 2020
PDF icon Degree Audit 2019
PDF icon Degree Audit 2018
PDF icon Degree Audit 2016 and 2017

The brochures below also provide an at-a-glance overview of the BCL/JD (previously BCL/LLB) program requirements. Please select the one relating to your admission year:

2024-2025 (Coming Soon)
2023-2024 (Coming Soon)
PDF icon 2022-2023
PDF icon 2021-2022
PDF icon 2020-2021
PDF icon 2019-2020
PDF icon 2018-2019
PDF icon 2017-2018

As a Comité des Equivalence student

Microsoft Office document icon Bar Equivalence - Course Selection

As a Transfer or Advanced Standing student

Microsoft Office document icon Transfer Student or Advanced Standing Student - Course Selection Form

As a Exchange or Visiting student

Microsoft Office document icon Exchange Students and Visiting Students - Course selection form

Become a Group Assistant.

File Group Assistant Application Form

Take a graduate level course as an undergraduate or graduate student. MINERVA course form [.pdf]

Take an outside course (Law or Non-Law), students can now apply via the Minerva Exchange/Study Away menu.

Processing time is normally 5 to 10 working days of submission.

If approved, student will be issued a Letter of Permission (downloadable from Minerva) and the student's 鶹AV record will be updated to “Term Away” (summer term).

  • Go to: : Student Records Menu > Exchange/Study Away Menu > .
  • Follow the steps and refer to the provided information text and/or help keys.
  • After completing the Study Away request, student must also complete the linked in the same sub menu.

Request registration/change to a course (add/drop) a course (only if Minerva cannot be used to add/drop).

Important: Be aware of the impact of a course withdrawal. See our note in the Registration Guide.

Course Registration Request Form [web]

You are a non-Law 鶹AV Graduate student who wants to take a course at the Faculty of Law. Course Registration Request Form [web]

Examinations & Assignments

Extension Requests for Non-Exam Assessments (i.e. In-term or final assignments, etc.) Extension Request Form [web]
Report a conflict in your examination dates.

Exam Conflict Report Form [web]

Deferred examinations

*1L (Fall midterms)or LLM students only*

BCL/JD students must put the request through Minerva

*Deferral of a Final Examination Request Form [web]

S/U grading switch for deferred exams S/U grading for exams deferred to summer 2021 [web]
Exam viewing

Examination Viewing Request Form [web]

Exam viewing feedback survey [web]

Grade Review Request [Microsoft Form]
Extension Requests for Non-Exam Assessments (i.e. In-term or final assignments, etc.) Extension Request Form [web]
Sign an exam confidentiality agreement.

File Exam Confidentiality Agreement

Majors and Minors

Apply for a Minor at 鶹AV's Faculties of Arts or Science. PDF icon Application to enroll in a minor program (Law)
Apply for one of the two Major programs at 鶹AV Law, which are offered in Commercial Negotiation, and in International Human Rights and Development. Microsoft Office document icon Application to enroll in a Major Concentration (Law programs)

Honours Program

Apply for the Law Faculty's Honours Program. Honours application form [.doc]
Complete Thesis Proposal and Literature Review Honours Thesis I (WRIT 450) Report [.doc]
Complete Thesis Research Report Honours Thesis II (WRIT 451) Report [.doc]
Complete Honours Thesis. Honours Thesis III (WRIT 452) Report [.doc]

Essay Forms

Use the Faculty of Law cover page for your written work.

File Standard Cover Page for Written Work (not anonymous)

File Standard Cover Page for Written Work (anonymous)

Apply to write a Term Essay (WRIT 491, 492, 493, 494, 495)

When deciding on the subject of your term essay, look at essay contests posted on this site and elsewhere.

A supervisor for a Term Essay MUST be a full-time Faculty member only. See their research areas.

Both the student and the supervisor must agree to meet to discuss the research and writing progress for a minimum of three separate dates before the final submission deadline.

Please note that there is a maximum of 3 Term Essays throughout the entire BCL/JD Program

Term Essay Authorization form [web].

Please make sure to have your outline, bibliography and table of contents ready in a single file to send to your supervisor when submitting your application.

Apply for a one-credit Writing and Drafting Project (WRIT 520) Open to Graduate Students only File WRIT 520 Writing and Drafting Project

Clerkships, Moots, Legal Clinic

Apply to student clerk at a court or administrative tribunal, or at one of the Montreal Courts. Student Clerkship
Apply to participate in a Moot Competition Competitive Mooting
Apply for the Legal Clinic Course.

PDF icon MLCC Booklet 2024/2025

Prizes and Scholarships

Nominate yourself or a fellow student for a prize or scholarship. Discretionary prizes online application form [web]
Apply for a post-graduate scholarship or travelling fellowship. (students will need to provide an updated CV with a projected budget, and get two respondents to email PDF letters of recommendation) Post-graduate scholarships online application form [web]
Apply for the Johnston Medal for outstanding contribution (graduating students). Students who graduate in the top 10% of their cohort are encouraged to submit this application form. Principal David Johnston Medal for Contribution online application form [web]

Exchanges and Feedback

Attach this Agreement to your Exchange Application (for Exchanges after Summer 2025) PDF icon Law Outgoing Exchange Advisory Agreement
You are a 鶹AV Law student who went out on exchange, and has some feedback to share.

Exchange Feedback: 鶹AV Students going abroad [web]

You are a student from another university who came to 鶹AV on exchange, and has some feedback to share.

Exchange Feedback: Students coming to 鶹AV [web]

Attestation Letters

Request an attestation letter from the SAO. Attestation Letter Request Form [web]
Request an attestation letter for a licensing body (e.g.LSO, QC, LSCBC, NY BOLE). - Current Students Bar Attestation Letters [web]
Request any attestation letter (including for licensing bodies) - Alumni

[MS Forms]

Miscellaneous

Book aroom at the Faculty of Law. (For requests from members of the 鶹AV Law Community)

Please reach out to the Conferences & special events team at the Faculty of Law, via events.law [at] mcgill.ca.
Apply for after-hours access to 鶹AV Law buildings.

File After Hours Access Request Form - Law 2024-2025

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