Windsor, a port located on the Bay of Fundy, had developed strong commercial connections with Saint John during the 19th century.

A disastrous fire swept through the King's College campus in Windsor on February 3, 1920, placing the future of the institution in doubt.

These events saw various suggestions made as to the future of the orphaned King's College Law School, still located in Saint John.

In 1948, the newly installed Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick, Lord Beaverbrook, who had registered at the King's College Law School in the 1890s but did not attend the institution, registered shock upon seeing the condition of the instructional space used by the law school in Saint John's Provincial Building.

Starr on Coburg Street with the intention of creating a joint-use reception centre for the law school and the Saint John City Council, however, this plan was subsequently scrapped.

[4][6][7] According to the book "Quiet Campus" by Dr. Peter McGahan of UNBSJ (ISBN 1896775101), the Saint John Law School moved from Saint John as a result of a report on the status of legal education in Canada by Professor Maxwell Cohen of McGill University.

Built with the support of Sir Max Aitken and the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation, it was expanded in 1984 to its current size.

These relationships and linkages create opportunities for multi-disciplinary study that make UNB Law an exciting place to learn and grow.