Programs

The Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM) is a graduate program at Canada’s top law school that enables a diverse body of both lawyers and non-lawyers to learn with the country’s leading legal minds. For one calendar year, students immerse themselves in studying the common law, and they emerge with an ability to use the lens of legal analysis in tackling issues relevant to the clients, businesses organizations, and agencies they serve. They are enriched by strong, new professional networks and membership in an alumni body that provides numerous and ongoing opportunities.

The GPLLM is comprised of three concentrations. The Canadian Law concentration is primarily directed at individuals who have already obtained legal training in civil or international jurisdictions, who engage with the GPLLM as part of their journey to qualify as legal practitioners in Ontario. The other two concentrations – Innovation, Law and Technology, and Business Law – allow professionals with extensive work experience to enhance their conversance in the law’s application to the complex matters they confront on a daily basis. 

Over the course of eleven months, students complete ten courses, including five courses from within their concentration. Students who have more than five years of full-time professional work experience can take the other five courses from any of the concentrations. Students who are admitted to the Canadian Law concentration with fewer than five years of work experience, will only be able to take courses from that concentration.

Those students who do not wish to complete the program in the regular timeline of eleven months (three consecutive academic terms) have the option of enrolling in the extended full-time program. The GPLLM extended full-time program allows students to complete the program requirements over two years (six sessions with a Fall/Winter/Summer/Fall/Winter/Summer registration sequence). Students in the GPLLM extended full-time option must register in at least one course per session (i.e., Fall, Winter and Summer) and must take a total of 5 courses each academic year.