(For the downtown Toronto building that originally housed the law school, see Osgoode Hall.) Osgoode Hall Law School is a law school in Toronto, Ontario. While it was founded by the Law Society of Upper Canada, it now serves as the faculty of law of York University. It is named after William Osgoode, an Oxford University graduate and barrister of Lincoln's Inn who was the first to serve as the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and then later Lower Canada. Although it can trace its origins to the 1820s, Osgoode Hall Law School was officially established on-site in the Osgoode Hall building, which still houses the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, on Queen Street West in 1889. Following a provincial decision that every law school be affiliated with a university, O