Information for Students
As a student at the Schulich School of Law's Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq Initiative, you'll receive a first-class legal education that prepares you for a variety of careers.聽 Over 270 Black and Indigenous graduates have gone on to pursue careers with private law firms, Indigenous and Black organizations, government legal departments, businesses, and the judiciary. They have assumed various leadership roles across Nova Scotia and beyond.
Our students and alumni give life to the IB&M Initiative mandate, which is to reduce structural and systemic racism and discrimination in the legal profession by increasing the representation of African Nova Scotian (Indigenous Blacks) and Mi鈥檏maq, as well as other Black and Indigenous students. Our students and alumni are leaders and catalysts for change beyond the legal profession.
A Student Perspective
As a student in the IB&M Initiative, I want to use my future legal career to work on issues of equality and equity, to meaningfully support my community."
MUKISA KAKEMBO (JD CANDIDATE '21)