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Course Selection (Graduate and Postdoctoral Law Programs)

Course Selection (Graduate and Postdoctoral Law Programs)

It should be noted that not all courses are offered in each year. Students wishing to pursue research topics outside of these particular fields are welcome to do so, subject to the availability of appropriate thesis supervisors.

The graduate-level Law courses are grouped into four inter-related concentrations.

Legal Traditions and Legal Theory

Legal Traditions and Legal Theory

This concentration combines two areas of strength: the coexistence of diverse legal traditions, particularly (but not exclusively) the civil and common law, and the awareness of the importance of theoretical approaches to law as a means of understanding both the internal dynamic of legal phenomena and their relationship to other social phenomena.

Courses offered within this concentration may include:
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
Advanced Criminal Law
Advanced Jurisprudence
Canadian Legal History
Canon Law
Civil Law Perspectives
Common Law Perspectives
Comparative Modern Legal History
Feminist Legal Theory
Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
Interdisciplinary Seminar in European Studies
Islamic Law
Jurisprudence
Legal Education Seminar
Legal Theory
Legal Traditions
Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Law
Research Seminars
Restitution
Roman Law
Sentencing in Canadian Law
Social and Ethical Issues in Jewish Law
Social Diversity and Law
Talmudic Law
Theoretical Approaches to Law

International Business Law

International Business Law

The ICL pioneered the first graduate concentration in international business law in Canada. This field has practical significance in international business relations and also provides opportunities to apply experience derived from multiple legal systems to the development of multi-jurisdictional, “international” commercial rules.

Courses offered within this concentration may include:
Airline Business and Law
Comparative Air Law
Comparative Legal Institutions
Copyright and Trademark Theory
Corporate Finance
European Community Law 1
European Community Law 2
Government Control of Business
Government Regulation of Space Activities
Intellectual and Industrial Property
International Business Law
International Carriage of Goods by Sea
International Development Law
International Environmental Law
International and Domestic Documentary Sales
International Maritime Conventions
International Securities Markets
International Taxation
Law and Practice of International Trade
Law of Space Applications
Patent Theory and Policy
Private International Air Law
Public International Air Law
Research Seminars
Resolution of International Disputes
Securities Regulation

Human Rights and Cultural Diversity

Human Rights and Cultural Diversity

Building on the Faculty's strength in public law, this concentration promotes the comparative study of human rights law. It provides students with opportunities to reflect critically on the emergence and institutionalization of human rights norms in both domestic and international settings and to explore complexities arising from cultural diversity.

Courses offered within this concentration may include:
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
Advanced Criminal Law
Children and the Law
Discrimination and the Law
Human Rights & Cultural Diversity
International Criminal Law
International Humanitarian Law
International Law of Human Rights
Law & Psychiatry
Research Seminars
Social Diversity and Law

Regulation, Technology and Society

Regulation, Technology and Society

This concentration focuses on the comparative and inter-disciplinary study of legal regulation in areas of rapid technological change. It encourages critical reflection on notions of the public interest and its protection in areas as diverse as the bio-medical sciences, the environment, the growth of computer networks, and the commercial exploitation of space.

Courses offered within this concentration may include:
Communications Law
Comparative Medical Law
Computers and the Law
Environment and the Law
Government Control of Business
Intellectual and Industrial Property
International Environmental Law
Land Use Planning
Law and Healthcare
Law and Psychiatry
Medical Liability
Policies, Politics and Legislative Process
Regulation, Technology / Society
Research Seminars
Trade Regulation
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Faculty of Law—2009-2010 (last updated Mar. 31, 2010) (disclaimer)
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