Course Descriptions

An introduction to the law of contracts, including formation of contractual obligations, consideration, privity, contract formalities, capacity, contractual terms, misrepresentation, mistake and remedies.

Weekly hours: 5 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the J.D. program.

An introduction to criminal law including basic concepts, procedures and principles of criminal liability, physical and mental elements of a crime, common law and statutory defenses, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, capacity, justification, parties to offences, and specific offences.

Weekly hours: 5 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the J.D. program.

A survey of the law of personal property. The forms and methods by which interests in personal property are created, used and transferred. A survey of English land law and its introduction to, and use in, Saskatchewan.

Weekly hours: 5 Lecture hours

An introduction to tort law, the law that determines whether a person will be awarded compensation in a civil claim for harm or wrong done by another person. The course will review a range of torts, including intentional torts and detailed consideration of the tort of negligence. The history and theory of tort law, critical perspectives, and relevant policy issues will be discussed as appropriate.

Weekly hours: 5 Lecture hours

An introduction to constitutional law including basic principles of federalism and of constitutional interpretation. The distribution of legislative power between Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures, Constitutional amendment and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms will be examined.

Weekly hours: 5 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the J.D. program.

A course in Aboriginal people and the law, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations. This will require skills-based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

In this course, students will learn about the continuum of dispute resolution processes and their comparative advantages; discuss and reflect on the professional roles of a lawyer; practice effective communication and negotiation skills; learn about client interviewing and counseling; consider ethical implications of the choices lawyers make; and experience problem-solving processes and how they have contributed to changes in systems of justice.

Restriction(s): Students must be enrolled in Year 1 of the J.D. program, or be a transfer student who has permission of the Associate Dean to take the course.

An introduction to the methods of legal research and writing. Students will be required to complete a number of legal memoranda as well as bibliographical and research assignments. The first year moot court program forms part of this course.

Weekly hours: 1 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

This course examines the law applicable to a range of relationships that arise in a variety of commercial transactions: sale of goods, leasing, and suretyship. While the course occasionally focuses on consumer issues, its primary focus is commercial transactions and the relationships established thereunder.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Canvasses secured financing practices in Canada involving collateral in the form of personal property, with the primary focus on commercial secured transactions. The course examines the policy and economic implications of secured financing law, including the history, doctrinal basis and specific provisions of the primary sources of secured financing law in Canada- provincial Personal Property Security Acts and the secured financing regime of the Bank Act. The study of case law will provide the contextual framework to interpret and apply this legislation to factual scenarios. These subjects are examined in the context of the two primary themes of the course, inter parties creation and enforcement of security agreements and third party priority issues.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examines the policies, laws, regulations, guidelines, procedures, and cases that illustrate how Canada defines membership in the Canadian community.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

A full-year course designed to provide students with practical, real-life legal experience and the tools to reflect critically upon this experience. Students enrolled in the course take on client files at Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc. CLASSIC is a not-for-profit community legal clinic located at 123 20th Street East. Students provide front-line legal services in many areas of law, including criminal law, social assistance law, immigration and refugee law, residential tenancies law, human rights law, prison law and more. Students will gain skills and understanding in the areas of client interviewing and counseling, legal writing and research, file management, professional responsibility and advocacy before courts and administrative tribunals. Students are exposed to the complexities and demands of real-life legal clinic and engage with the legal system on the level at which it actually operates. Students will also be exposed to issues and critical literature pertaining to poverty law, access to justice and the lawyering process.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 4 Clinical Service hours

The Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair Seminar will be offered once a year in those years where there is a visiting Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Chair. It will have a varied content, depending upon the incumbent's experience and interest. The seminar may be interdisciplinary.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): None. Offered as upper-year class so normally requires completion of first year of JD studies.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the college to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Examination of global law of Indigenous rights, with specific application to bearing of this area of law on resource development. Specific topics will be adapted annually in light of emerging issues and scholarly work but will include UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) provisions on land rights, resource rights, and consultation/FPIC; other selected international law materials on Indigenous rights at a global level, comparative legal approaches to doctrine of Aboriginal title; legal status and content of ‘duty to consult’/consultation with Indigenous peoples and ‘free,prior, and informed consent’, implications for selected resource sectors or resource-related infrastructure projects.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The Estey Chair in Business Law Seminar will be offered once a year in those years where there is a visiting Estey Chair. It will have a varied content within the broad scope of business law, depending upon the incumbent's experience and interest. The seminar may be interdisciplinary.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): None. Offered as upper-year class so normally requires completion of first year of JD studies. A particular Estey Chair might require some specific preparation.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the college to ensure that the topics covered are different.

This course examines the law relating to collection, use, and disclosure of information in the public and private sectors in Canada.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This course is intended to provide students with a general introduction to construction law in Canada. Building on basic concepts learned in contract and tort law, students will gain an understanding as to how contracts for work are awarded; what construction contracts look like, including which clauses are typically the source of litigation; how performance of the work is secured by owners; what rights, obligations and remedies parties can access through The Builder’s Lien Act and how to use arbitration effectively to resolve construction disputes.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 202 (Contract Law) and LAW 211 (Tort Law)

The course explores the law governing a variety of payment and transfer systems. The relationship between a depository bank and its customer is the initial focus, including a bank’s right of set-off against its customer’s deposit account (a key form of payment mechanism). Significant attention is devoted to the legal and regulatory infrastructure underlying Canada’s two principal monetary payment systems, the Automated Clearing & Settlement System (ACSS) and the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS), as well as the statutory regimes of the federal Bills of Exchange Act (BEA) (which pertains to the transfer of payment rights in bills of exchange, promissory notes and cheques), the provincial Securities Transfer Act (STA) (which pertains to the transfer of rights in financial assets including share certificates, bearer bonds, and electronically held securities) and the provincial Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) (which pertains to transfers of accounts). Finally, students will learn about other modern payment systems and mechanisms (e.g. PayPal, Bitcoin, Interac, Credit Card), gaining familiarity with the general infrastructure and processes underlying such systems and mechanisms (e.g. PayPal, Bitcoin, Interac, Credit Card), gaining familiarity with the general infrastructure and processes underlying such systems and mechanisms.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Introduces students to the basic principles of medical law and their application to common issues in health care. It also explores the legal framework for the health professions and the health care system.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This course provides an overview of the key areas relevant to entertainment law, including: artist rights, copyright infringement, fair dealing, negotiation, trade-marks in entertainment, talent and guild agreements, collective bargaining, publicity rights, defamation, entertainment contracts, and emerging entertainment law issues in the digital age. The course will provide examples from film, television, music, visual art, live performance and other areas. Some classes may involve guest speakers. Students will have an opportunity to consider and discuss both practical and theoretical issues regarding entertainment law.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This course will provide in-depth coverage of legal issues that arise in context to professional regulation in Canada. Topics will include unauthorized practice, registration, investigation, quality assurance, marketing, mobility, and discipline. The course will address how professional regulation intersects with other areas of the law, including administrative law, human rights, and the Charter.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This course examines fundamental transformations in lawyering, considering matters that include future needs for flexibility and innovation, changes in business models in the context of various changes, regulatory change, and technological change. The course introduces students to some key literature on these topics and uses a variety of pedagogical methods, including exercises oriented to the use of design thinking principles. The course also includes personal skills development and seeks to facilitate students taking on a mindset of agility and change in the context of ongoing transformational change in the delivery of legal services.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in Years 2 and 3 of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) program in the College of Law.

Child Protection Law and Practice focuses on child protection law, policy and procedure, with the aim of helping students to develop a legal framework consistent with the theory, values, and skills of practice in this area of law. The course will critically examine a range of contemporary legal, social policy and practice issues that impact the lives of children, caregivers, and their communities. The course examines the quasi-criminal and quasi-family law nature of child protection law in Canada. The main goal of the course is to provide a foundation for child protection law and practice within a social justice framework, by examining a range of issues pertinent to the practice of child protection law. The course format will be interactive and success for all (including the instructor) will depend on the full participation of each person in critically examining issues and challenges pertinent to child protection law in Canada.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): This is a upper year course and only offered to students in years 2 and 3 of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) program (students in year 1 of the J.D. program may not register in this course).

This internship will give students an opportunity to learn about the process of law reform and to develop their research and writing skills by working with the Commission and its Director on law reform projects in which the Commission is engaged.

Weekly hours: 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): This course is open to students in Years 2 and 3 of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) program.

Developments in Saskatchewan suggest that we ought to be expanding our study of Family Dispute Resolution beyond ‘negotiation’. In 2019, Dispute Resolution will become mandatory in (all) family law disputes in Saskatchewan, including a spectrum of DR processes. Family lawyers will need to be better equipped than in the past, to advise their clients on the range of process options in these often complex matters. They will also need greater capacity to work in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural settings, to help resolve family conflict. Finally, new models for the delivery of legal services are emerging more quickly in this field than in any other area of legal practice—raising considerations around professional responsibility, regulation and even professional identity.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the College of Law.
Prerequisite(s): Negotiation
Corequisite(s): One of the Family Law courses [Family Law I, Family Law II, or the advanced Family Law seminar].

Covers the creation, administration, variation and breach of express trust. Resulting and constructive trusts are also examined.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

A survey of the role of administrative agencies within the Anglo-Canadian legal system focusing primarily on consideration of the extent to which agency and executive action is subject to judicial review and control.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The seminar examines the evolution of First Nations’ economic development. There will be a brief overview of historical economic activities by First Nations, a review of government legislation and policy that impacted First Nations’ economies and a review of legal developments including First Nations-led legislative initiatives that have created the environment for renewed economic development activities by First Nations.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This seminar is a theory and practice course, combining the study of legal principles unique to appellate litigation practice with practical written exercises, and a mock appeal in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals. The objective of this seminar is to increase a student's understanding of the appellate process in both civil and criminal matters, and to provide practical exposure to the practice of litigation.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

The environmental moot course will be offered either as an internal moot, or when feasible as part of an inter-law school or national environmental moot. The course will provide students with instruction in areas of environmental law relevant to the moot case, advanced legal research and writing, and appellate advocacy.

Weekly hours: 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Students must have completed first-year of the J.D. program.
Note: LAW 444 Environmental Law is a recommended prerequisite.

Up to five students will be selected annually to participate in the Donald G. H. Bowman National Tax Moot, typically held in Toronto. The moot will involve research and advocacy, both oral and written, and will allow students from Canadian law schools to debate current legal issues in taxation law with senior tax practitioners and with justices of the Tax Court and Federal Court of Appeal. This moot is recommended to those with an interest in advocacy, exacting research and taxation issues. Upper year students are invited to apply. Students receive a 3-hour course credit which they can designate for either first or second term. Two students are paired together as the appellant team and two students are paired together as the respondent team. A fifth participant may be selected as an additional participant, who may perform certain activities including research, peer coaching, and/or factum writing.

Weekly hours: 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Note: LAW 477 Taxation I is a recommended prerequisite.

Legal research is fundamental to providing legal analysis and advice. This advanced legal research course goes beyond what students have learned in their introductory legal research and writing course, thus allowing for the exploration of more advanced legal research skills. While it maintains the focus on practical legal research skills for purposes of providing professional support for client decision-making, it adds new approaches and skills. Thus, there may be a selected focus on such matters as development of research plans for more complex problems, engagement with interpretation statutes, comparative/foreign legal research, international law research, artificial intelligence and legal research, communication to clients, formulation of predictions with an awareness of effects of potential cognitive biases, ethical issues in research, and other advanced legal research matters.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 245.2 Legal Research and Writing.

This 3-credit seminar critically examines issues relating to housing, homelessness, and the law. Housing is a fundamental human need, but affordable, secure housing remains elusive for many. International, federal, provincial, and municipal laws and policies shape housing realities and experiences, and housing also engages multiple substantive areas of law including contract, property, criminal, administrative, human rights, and family law. The seminar introduces students to the context and policy debates around housing and homelessness in Canada, and examines issues relating to housing and homelessness through multiple legal and interdisciplinary lenses. Seminar topics include Indigenous peoples and housing, the international human right to housing, Canada’s federal housing legislation, approaches to the regulation of homelessness, and litigation about homelessness and the right to housing. We will also study residential tenancies law and procedures, with a special focus on evictions and access to justice in administrative housing law tribunals. Finally, the seminar explores policy and law reform proposals for the future of housing justice in Canada.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed Year 1 of the J.D. program.

Examination of the foundations of the law of evidence in civil and criminal trials in Canada. The principles, rules, statutes and procedures are examined from a critical perspective with emphasis on the history, rationale, and reform of rules and statutes affecting the admissibility of evidence. The topics examined are admissibility, relevance, character evidence, opinion evidence, hearsay evidence, competence, privilege and confessions.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examination of the basic features of business corporations. Topics include: corporate personality, the process of incorporation, the powers and duties of directors and officers, shareholder rights and remedies.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Agriculture is a highly regulated industry in most jurisdictions; Canada and Saskatchewan are no exception. Historically governments have intervened in agriculture under the pretext of ensuring stability in both the agriculture and consumer communities. It is because of this intervention, Agricultural Law is often considered the law of exceptions. Reviews specific legislation designed to regulate agriculture, such as the Saskatchewan Farm Security Act, as well as agricultural exceptions in general legislation. Case law and other legal analysis will be included when necessary.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of first year law.

Introduction to trends in families and family law, the constitutional and statutory framework for the regulation of families and the role of process issues in family law practice. The course also provides a detailed examination of maintenance and property rights as between spouses, both married and common law.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

A chronological study of the procedural steps, rules and related substantive law in a civil action from the moment of the decision to sue to the trial of the matter. The context of the adversarial process in an action is examined by reference to the policies underlying civil procedure, the role and authority of the lawyer, the organization and jurisdiction of the courts, limitations of actions and costs. The civil action is examined through a focus on principles of jurisdiction and venue, type and manner of commencement of proceedings, pleadings, multiple claims and parties, and discovery. The course will involve the drafting of documents. The ethical conduct of a civil action is taught at each stage of the class.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examines the nature and function of the law, focusing particularly on the relationships between the law and society, law and morality, and law and political theory.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

An introduction to the principles of securities regulation in Canada. The course will provide an overview of the regulatory system including registration and prospectus requirements (and exceptions thereto), continuous disclosure, insider trading and reporting, and control transactions. Special emphasis will be given to the regulatory aspects of advising a public company, including corporate finance, disclosure and governance matters.

Weekly hours: 2 Lecture hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 361.

The issuance of a judgment does not, in itself, enable a successful claimant to reach the financial resources or property of the judgment debtor for purposes of satisfaction of the successful plaintiff's claim. The enforcement of a judgement for the payment of money entails resorting to the specialized system of law that constitutes the subject of this course. The various methods of judgement enforcement are examined. In addition the law applicable to fraudulent conveyances and preferences is examined in detail.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The seminar focuses on substantive criminal law with emphasis on critical analysis of the grounds of criminal liability and criminal responsibility. The challenges that social and cultural diversity pose for the development of substantive criminal law will be considered throughout.

Note: Students with credit for LAW 805 cannot receive credit for this course.

This interdisciplinary seminar explores legal culture within the larger cultural contexts that it shapes and is shaped by. In studying the ways in which law and cultures intersect in history, theory, and practice, students will enhance their critical understanding of the independence and interdependence of law and justice; the value of cultural theory in reading legal texts; the challenges and opportunities of inter-cultural perspectives; the role of media images of the law and lawyers; issues of race, gender, class, commodification, and sexuality; the construction of public and private spheres; censorship and intellectual property; agency and accountability; cultural myths and narrative powers.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Note: Students with credit for LAW 806 will not receive credit for this course.

Designed to permit close examination of central features of the law of bankruptcy, insolvency and equitable receiverships. The specific issues that will be examined in the context of bankruptcy and insolvency law will include: the role and efficacy of consumer and business insolvency proceedings, the position of secured creditors of the bankrupt, the status of statutory lien holders, the relationship between receivership and bankruptcy, dealings with undischarged bankruptcies, bankruptcy exemptions, the role of unsecured creditors in bankruptcy administration and consumer bankruptcies. The central features of Insolvency (reorganization) systems contained in the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act are examined in detail. The specific issues that will be examined in the context of equitable receivership include: the receiver as agent of the debtor and representative of the secured party, the special position of a receiver-manager and receiverships under The Personal Property Security Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a theoretical framework and reflective space for 2L and 3L students to deepen their understanding of rural law, ethics, and practical issues they encounter in their externship placements. It aims to complement the hands-on externship experience with academic inquiry and discussion, enriching students’ overall learning and professional development. The LAW 409: Rural Legal Externship Seminar is designed to run concurrently with the Rural Legal Externship. It may include guest lectures from experts in rural law, workshops on specialized topics and sessions focused on developing professional skills such as negotiation and advocacy. The seminar will also provide a forum for students to present their experiences, challenges, and successes from their externships, fostering a collaborative and supportive learning environment. This course counts as the Juris Doctor seminar class program requirement.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Corequisite(s): LAW 434.12 Rural and Regional Legal Externship.

A survey of substantive elements of some areas of intellectual and industrial property law and the current legal frameworks respecting copyright, industrial design, trademarks, patents and plant breeders' rights. Approximately one quarter of the course will be devoted to each of copyright, trademarks and patents. Industrial design and plant breeder's rights laws will be treated only with sufficient details to familiarize students with their scope. Time will be allocated to considering the development of and theory underpinning current Canadian and international intellectual property regimes. An examination of developments and problems caused by internationalization and by new technologies and demands on the law in a post-industrial, digital-age society will be included.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The course will provide an overview and introduction to the law of drinking and driving in Canada. Emphasis will be placed on the statutory requirements of drinking and driving, as well as the Charter-protected interest of the accused including, but not limited to, right to counsel (section 10(b)), search and seizure (section 8) and arbitrary detention (section 9). The various Charter remedies available pursuant to sections 24(1) and 24(2) will also be explored. The course will be considered in both an academic and practical context. Discussion will include balancing the interests of the accused versus the protection of the public from drunk drivers. The course will also examine the sentencing regime for both occasional and chronic offenders.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 351 or LAW 423.

This seminar will introduce students to the principles and process that guide the reform of the law. The seminar will use selected readings and presentations by guest lecturers and the professor to provide the foundation for a consideration of the processes, machinery and potential for law reform initiatives in areas of provincial jurisdiction. Students will be introduced to approaches to law reform, interact with the Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan and will learn about the successes and failures of a number of recent provincial law reform initiatives.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

This course examines the scope and exercise of municipal authority, municipal governance, as well as planning, subdivision, zoning and other means of land use regulation.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examines the way in which the law impacts elders in our society. We will examine topics such as the concept of aging, considerations in representing elders, housing, concepts of guardianship and substitute decision making, capacity and consent, healthcare directives, elder neglect and abuse and the role of the Public Trustee.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

An examination of general topics of insurance law and how the legislation and common law deal with these topics in relation to property, life and automobile insurance. Topics include classifications of insurance, the legal position of brokers and agents and concepts of indemnity, insurable interest, non-disclosure and misrepresentation, the rights of third parties to recover insurance proceeds, warranties and conditions, valuation, subrogation and contribution.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

The seminar examines sexual assault in domestic and international criminal and civil law. Topics addressed include: 1) comparison of alternate theoretical conceptualizations and legal definitions of sexual assault; 2) interpretation of current substantive law: consent in the actus reus, consent and voluntariness, mens rea, mistakes of fact and law, the 'reasonable steps' provision; 3) administration of justice in relation to sexual assault: police and prosecutorial practices and policy, determinations of credibility and admissibility of evidence, questions of law and fact, the judicial role, jury instructions, sentencing; 4) civil actions; 5) criminal compensation boards; 6) the Charter and international human rights law, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), 1979, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 1993, Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), 1998, including recognition of 'rape' and other forms of sexual violence of comparable gravity as 'war crimes' and 'crimes against humanity'.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 351 and LAW 423
Note: Students with credit for LAW 818 will not receive credit for this course.

Examination of the principles and rules for remedying breaches of contract, tortious wrongs, and invasions of property rights. It will consider issues arising in the assessment of compensatory and non-compensatory damages, as well as equitable remedies like injunctions and specific performance.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

In our world of ever growing corporate structures and technology the practice of insolvency law is changing and adapting. This seminar will examine new and emerging legal issues that today’s companies face when they reorganize under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act in Canada by comparing it to how the United States treats similar issues under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Various areas of insolvency law will be discussed including one of the newest issues, the treatment of encrypted digital currencies (“cryptocurrencies” or the “bitcoin”) when a debtor becomes insolvent. Other issues that will be explored include debtor-in-possession financing, critical suppliers, mass tort claims (ie. the Red Cross tainted blood scandal), cross-border insolvencies of multinational corporations, how a debtor’s environmental damage is dealt with in insolvency, the treatment of intellectual property, employment law as well as the use of the CCAA and Chapter 11 to liquidate companies rather than reorganize. The recent reorganizations of Target, Sears and Toys ‘R’ Us will also be examined.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

Introduces students to i) the roles, responsibilities and authority of the legal profession and ii) the legal and ethical duties of lawyers in the practice of law. The regulation of various aspects of the profession - admission, regulation of the practice of law, lawyer discipline, etc. are critically examined. As well, students will learn the elements of a lawyer's duties to client, the court and others, including himself or herself. This involves an understanding of the lawyer's role in the adversary system, the nature of lawyer-client confidentiality, integrity and conflicts of interest in various roles performed by lawyers.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Students with credit for LAW 497 will not receive credit for this course.

Jurisdiction, including classification of offences, time limitations, jurisdiction under the Charter; pre-trial procedure and practices, including search and seizure, arrest and detention, right to counsel; judicial interim release (bail); the preliminary inquiry and the process of discovery; the charging process, including stays and withdrawals; pleas; trials; trial by jury.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 351 recommended.

This course examines the application of various aspects of law to the field of sports. The course will examine the role played by sports in our culture and our society. We will look at the application of contract law and collective bargaining in professional sports, including arbitration, and the role of anti-trust legislation to the sports industry, including comparative approaches to the regulation of sport. The course will also examine issues of the right to participate, ethics in sports, including drugs in amateur and professional sports and the role of sports agents in professional sport. The application of tort law and criminal law to violence in sports will also be examined.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Selected topics relevant to sentencing in the criminal justice system combining theory, doctrine and practice. Theoretical aims of punishment and their translation into current legal doctrine and practice will be discussed, with particular emphasis on the Canadian and Saskatchewan context.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

In this seminar students are given the opportunity to explore features of personal property security law and real property security law that are not addressed or only superficially addressed in survey courses in these areas.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 303
Note: LAW 307 is recommended

Participation in the Gale Moot Competition held annually in Toronto is required. It will involve research and advocacy, both oral and written, on a complex case or problem in the field of criminal and/or constitutional law. Students are responsible for the preparation of both an Appellant's and a Respondent's factum, and will participate in at least three practice moots at the College prior to the competition. Recommended for students with an interest in public speaking and exacting research.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Execution; construction and revocation of wills; powers of attorney; and advanced health care directives. Issues of probate; survivorship; intestate succession; dependents' relief; and family issues, as they relate to wills and estates; including a discussion of the law surrounding adult guardianship application, pre- and post-mortem opportunities relating to wills and estates.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examination of the form and function of negotiation as a problem-solving process. Negotiation is critical to lawyers and others concerned with preventing or resolving disputes. Effective negotiation skills will be studied from theoretical, critical and practical perspectives, placing emphasis on the lawyer's role in negotiation.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

Examination of current issues in constitutional law, including issues of constitutional theory, federalism and the constitutional protection of individual and group rights.

An understanding of contemporary debates about universalism and of the meaning of human rights with attention to political theory and international underpinnings. The concept of discrimination and the constitutional position of human rights in Canada. Detailed analysis of the concept of equality as it is embedded in domestic anti-discrimination law and enshrined in section 15 of the Charter.

Note: Students with credit for LAW 823 will not receive credit for this course.

The Sallows Seminar in Human Rights will be offered once a year, usually in the first term. It will be led by the visiting Sallows Professor in Human Rights and have a varied content, depending upon the incumbent's experience and interest. The seminar may be interdisciplinary.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

The Rural Legal Externship leverages an experiential education model where law students learn through direct experience, hands-on mentorship, and critical reflection. Centered around students' clinical experiences in a rural legal setting at Legal Aid or Public Prosecutions, they will work with client files across a spectrum of legal areas potentially including family law and criminal law, gaining a deeper understanding of various legal challenges specific to rural communities. Students will be supervised throughout their legal assignments by a practicing lawyer, ensuring guidance and support as they navigate real-world client files. As part of their externship and the associated seminar, students will gain essential tools to critically reflect upon their legal practice and explore their identities as future lawyers. This immersive insight into the legal system in rural areas prepares students to effectively contribute to and advocate within these communities. Students are expected to engage in their extern duties from Monday to Thursday each week, with Friday mornings dedicated to attending an online clinical law seminar.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of first-year Law.
Corequisite(s): LAW 409.3 Rural and Regional Legal Seminar.

This seminar will apply economic principles to analyze legal principles. Topics covered will include the economic analysis of major areas of the common law, namely, property law, tort law and contract law. Other topics include (i) the economic approach to corporate law, (ii) bankruptcy, and (iii) competition law. As the various topics are covered, students will see how the law might be addressing certain kinds of recurring economic problems, including prisoners' dilemmas, transaction costs, externalities, asymmetric information, principal-agent problems, and free-rider problems. A previous background in economics is not required.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

The Aboriginal peoples of Canada; Aboriginal title and Aboriginal rights; treaties and the treaty-making process, including hunting and fishing rights, Natural Resources Transfer Agreements; the Metis; land claims; federal and provincial jurisdiction over Aboriginal peoples and lands; Indian Act, including membership and Bill C-31; constitutional recognition and protection of the rights of Aboriginal peoples; Aboriginal self-determination.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Examines the causes and impacts of economic inequality and poverty in Canada. Considers various definitions of poverty and inequality and the relationships between poverty and economic inequality and race, gender, disability and class. Explores the role of law in creating, regulating and/or alleviating poverty and economic inequality.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

Mediation-broadly speaking, the process of assisting the negotiation of others- is being increasingly used to resolve legal disputes. This course explores mediation from both theoretical and practical perspectives. As well as examining the structure and different approaches to mediation, students will develop skills for engaging the mediation process effectively in every role. While students will experience and study mediation from a variety of perspectives, it is the implication for their role as lawyers that forms the common theme.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 430

The Dean’s Forum on Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice (the Dean’s Forum) is an important initiative that engages justice community stakeholders in Saskatchewan in a dialogue about access to justice and the future of the legal system. This course offers law students a unique opportunity to meaningfully and actively contribute to this consultation and policy development exercise.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year of the J.D. degree.

This seminar is designed to provide academic supervision and credit for the four students who are members of the College team in the Laskin Memorial Moot Court competition. Participants do research and written and oral advocacy on a complex problem in administrative and constitutional law. The seminar is recommended for those with an interest in advocacy, exacting research, and public law issues. The Laskin Moot is a bilingual (French/English) competition where a minimum of one of the four team members participates in French.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 340 recommended.

This seminar will be designed to give exposure to a myriad of subtopics relating generally to the relationship between the criminal justice system and Indigenous people of Canada. From Policing to Sentencing Indigenous people have been overrepresented and mistreated by the justice system at all stages. Certainly there is significant alienation from police and courts. The Supreme Court of Canada has acknowledged that the system has been systemically racist in the sentencing decisions of Gladue and Ipeelee. Indeed, Gladue, while appearing to have not had much of an impact, is being used in many stages of the criminal justice system beyond sentencing. The seminar will be designed to explore the myriad of reasons for the alienation of Indigenous peoples and search for solutions thereto. The seminar will provide readings in a wide range of historical and modern sources to provide a strong grounding for the student in relevant topics.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Note: LAW 423 and LAW 425 are recommended.

Surveys the actual and potential role of the law in protecting the integrity of the environment from threats posed by scientific and technological advances over exploitation of resources, rapid development and population growth.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Students with credit for LAW 844 will not receive credit for this course.

Seminar introducing the legal regulation of natural resources. Explores a variety of legal and policy considerations involved in the exploitation of natural resources. Subjects addressed include sustainable development of natural resources, the ownership and disposition of natural resources, and social and environmental considerations.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

The Aboriginal Rights Moot is a moot structured on the traditional Aboriginal circle consensus-building process. It is designed to allow law students to debate and discuss Aboriginal rights issues vital to the Aboriginal peoples.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 436.
Note:Team is typically chosen in October and competition typically takes place in March.

Lawyers use dispute resolution skills in various procedural settings, and often advocate for their clients in negotiation and mediation processes. This course offers students an opportunity for intensive skill development in dispute resolution and mediation advocacy through a competitive moot experience.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 430. Prerequisite may be waived at the discretion of the coach.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Upper-Year Law students.

Introduces students to fundamental developments in Canadian legal history, and uses a historical perspective to enhance understanding of Canadian legal institutions and principles. The course will survey the ingredients of the Canadian legal heritage: English, European and American influences; the legacy of civil, common and customary law. There will also be discussion of the impact of Canadian historical events on specific areas of Canadian law, such as immigration law, family law, criminal and constitutional law.

Note: Students with credit for LAW 839 will not receive credit for this course.

This course involves preparation and participation in a trial advocacy moot initially involving the six western Canadian law schools followed by a national competition. Participants are involved in juried trial relating to a problem in evidence, criminal procedure and/or criminal law. Participants are expected to prepare opening juror addresses, examinations-in-chief and cross examinations and closing arguments. In addition, there is research on various evidentiary points which arise during the course of argument.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: There are no prerequisites for this course, although it is desirable that students will have completed a course in either evidence or criminal procedure.

Advocacy techniques, practice and tactics in civil and criminal trial fora. Topics covered will include: the essentials of direct examination and cross examination, chambers advocacy, examinations for discovery, impeachment of witnesses, occurrence witness testimony, expert witnesses, the use of exhibits, closing arguments and addresses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 384.

An overview of the main historical and contemporary legal and policy developments affecting Aboriginal people and their interests in Canada, and examination of the relationship between colonialism and law and policy in this area. The emphasis will be on developments since the second half of the 20th century.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: LAW 436 recommended.

Introduction to oil and gas law. Topics addressed will include: the nature of interests in oil and gas; rights of mineral interest holders inter se and the operation of the rule of capture; acquisition of freehold interests in oil and gas; the freehold oil and gas lease; estoppel, waiver and involuntary termination; disposition of minerals by the Crown; oil and gas conservation (pooling unitization and shut-in wells); and surface rights.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Conflict of Laws or Private International Law, as it is also widely known, deals with the analysis and resolution of legal problems involving more than one jurisdiction. Using cases primarily from tort, contract, property, and family law, the student learns how to characterize a legal issue, how to determine which jurisdiction is the most appropriate forum and which jurisdiction's law governs the issue, and how to evaluate the significance of factors that influence the recognition and enforcement of the foreign judgment.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

An examination of the legal principles governing the conduct of states and other subjects of international law. Topics studied will include the creation and ascertainment of international law, application of international law in domestic and international tribunals, sovereign immunity, diplomatic relations, law of armed conflict, international protection of human rights and international environmental protection.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Students will develop and apply their knowledge of health law to specific topics in the areas of health care and medical research.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Note: Students with credit for LAW 858 will not receive credit for this course.

This seminar is designed for students who wish to compete in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The seminar will involve discussion of contemporary problems in public international law matters relevant to the Jessup Moot problem; and extensive oral advocacy training. A team of five students encompassing four oralists and one designated research counsel will be selected to represent the College at the competition. The seminar is recommended mainly for those with an aptitude for public speaking, exacting research and interest in international law matters.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Examines the principles and obligations contained in international and regional trade agreements and the use of international dispute resolution to uphold and enforce such commitments. The international agreements to be addressed are: The World Trade Organization Agreement, including the GATT 1994, and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

An examination of the different vehicles that may be employed as alternatives to the corporation for the purpose of carrying on a business. The structures examined include the sole proprietorship, agency relationships, employer/employee relationships, partnership, co-ownerships, joint venture, non-profit corporation, limited partnership, business trust, co-operative corporation, limited liability partnerships, and franchise. The characteristics of these structures and other factors that influence the choice of business vehicle are explored in detail.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 361.

A study of the co-operative corporation as a business form and the theory of co-operative enterprise. The first part of the seminar will look at co-operatives from a legal perspective. Among other things, the following topics will be discussed: incorporation, members' rights, directors' duties and obligations, taxation of co-operatives compared with other business units, and consideration of special types of co-operatives such as Credit Unions. The second part of the seminar will attempt to view the co-operative in a broader, social perspective. Reliance will be placed on various resource people, if available, in discussing these broader aspects. The third part of the seminar will be devoted to papers presented by the student members of the seminar.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 361.

Seminar introduces students to the law regulating the actions of fiduciaries. The content of fiduciary accountability is addressed in detail.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

The Davies Corporate/Securities Law Moot provides an opportunity for students to debate current legal issues in corporate and securities law. Students will research the issues and then engage in written and oral advocacy. Most of the work will occur in January and February prior to the moot in Toronto in late February or early March.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 361.3
Note: LAW 401 and LAW 461 are recommended.

This seminar explores the interaction between law and socio-economic development (with some emphasis on international law). The seminar engages the theoretical underpinnings of the law and development discourse as well as practical aspects of the development enterprise. It explores the meaning and the historical ascendance of the development concept; its continued metamorphosis into good governance and other related concepts; and the differing approaches to effecting development and the place of law there in. While the seminar includes consideration of the roles of international organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in fostering development, students will also be introduced to some of the alternatives to the approaches of these international institutions that scholars, activists, grassroots movements and civil society organizations have advocated in recent times.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Note: Students are encouraged to have taken or be taking International Law 457.3. Students with credit for LAW 865 will not receive credit for this course.

This seminar would examine the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). It would examine the YCJA and how it fits within Canadian criminal law, how it corresponds to international practices, how it has responded to the inherent challenges of adolescence especially for those described as marginalized, and how successfully (or unsuccessfully) has it achieved its goal of reducing crime through a multidisciplinary approach.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

A study of the legal concepts, institutions and procedures concerning the employment relationship in Canada, including the contract of employment at common law; legal protection of the right to organize; status under collective bargaining legislation; the concept of exclusive bargaining agent; the role of labour-relations tribunals; the legal principles relating to industrial disputes; and statutory regimes concerning employment.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This seminar course allows those students who have taken one or more classes in Family Law to expand upon and research many current trends and themes relating to law and the family. Critical evaluation of the many issues in family law will be directed by the instructor and supplemented with guest lecturers from the legal and other professional disciplines. Students will be required to write a major paper with an expectation that they will present their research to the class.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 372.3 is the formal prerequisite. At the discretion of the college, preference may be given to those students who have already taken Family Law 2 or who are currently enrolled in Family Law 2.

Examination of rights to child support, custody and access, determination of paternity, child protection and adoption, and the enforcement of support and custody orders.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 372.

A commercial reorganization is a court sanctioned scheme under which a financially distressed business is restructured so as to permit it to continue in business through the compromise of the claims of creditors and others. There has been a fundamental shift in Canadian insolvency law over the past 30 years, in that there has recently emerged effective systems that actively facilitate the restructuring and rescue of insolvent businesses as an alternative to their liquidation. This course will make use of several highly realistic simulations in order to develop both an understanding of the substantive law that governs commercial reorganizations as well as the advocacy and negotiation skills that are necessary to provide effective legal advice and representation to your clients.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Seminar exploring the legal status and treatment of children from a historical, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspective.

Deals with federal income taxation which focuses on basic tax principles and underlying theoretical concepts. The taxation unit concentrated upon is the individual. Topics normally covered in the course include procedure, statutory interpretation, the tax base, measurement of income, deductions, exemptions, and capital gains.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Focuses on taxation of business entities including corporations, trusts, and partnerships. Since this course builds on concepts introduced in Taxation I 477.3 knowledge of the basic concepts covered in that course is essential.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 477.

Students in this seminar will investigate the norms and principles that inform the public and private regulation of business activity. Issues of legitimacy, scope, efficacy and enforceability are addressed.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours

The Intensive Criminal Law Seminar supplements the Intensive Criminal Law Practicum by providing students with an opportunity to reflect on their experiences in the practicum, and to engage with the Criminal Law literature in order to critically reflect on the law and systemic issues. A series of seminars will be held in the first week of term prior to the students beginning their practicum, and then on Fridays throughout the remainder of the term. Many of the seminars will be delivered by practicing lawyers or judges. In particular, students learn about several advanced criminal law, ethical, evidence, trial advocacy and criminal procedure issues, and will study the Charter of Rights and Freedoms legal rights and procedural issues in depth. Students will be assigned readings relating to most topics and will be expected to engage actively in the seminars, in some cases leading the seminar themselves. The seminar will provide an opportunity for advanced research in the form of a major research paper.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 351.3 and LAW 423.3
Corequisite(s): LAW 484.12

The Intensive Criminal Law Practicum is designed to provide students with real-world practical exposure to the practice of criminal law. In addition to working on at least 1 major actual criminal file jointly (usually with the program coordinator's law firm). Students will also be placed in the office of a criminal lawyer for 32 hours a week (Monday to Thursday) for ten weeks where the students will become intimately involved in the practice of criminal law under the supervision of a practicing criminal lawyer. In some situations, students may also be placed under the supervision of a judge for part of the placement. While the focus of the practicum will be on criminal law and the related areas of law and practice mentioned above, students will likely be exposed to other areas of law intersecting with criminal law (for example, insurance or property law). Students in this practicum must simultaneously enroll in the Intensive Criminal Law Seminar.

Prerequisite(s): LAW 351.3 and LAW 423.3.
Corequisite(s): LAW 482.3.

Introduction to psychiatric theory; the methodology of psychiatric diagnosis and modern psychiatric treatment; the role of psychiatrists in the legal process. Psychiatry and the criminal process: remand for mental examination, fitness to stand trial, sentencing, automatism, insanity and dangerous offenders. The concept of competency: contractual and testamentary capacity. Civil commitment of the mentally ill: a comparative study. The psychiatrist as expert witness. Selected problems.

Prerequisite(s): LAW 351.
Note: LAW 314 is recommended.

Arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method that is a substitute (or alternative) to court. In a private process, an arbitrator selected by mutual agreement conducts a hearing and renders a binding, written decision. Arbitration is used to settle many kinds of disputes in labour and employment, commercial and social activities, insurance and financial agreements, international treaties and sports. Taking a hands on approach, the course will teach students how arbitration works, its advantages and disadvantages, and how to research, prepare and argue cases. Simulations, case analysis, searchable data bases, outside experts, and lectures will be used. Issues covered include dismissal, drug testing, contract interpretation, surveillance and privacy, and discrimination. Acquired skills will be applicable to most employment and commercial settings. Final grades are based on the ability of students to apply what they have learned. In the last class students argue a case in front of experienced arbitrators and then prepare a written arbitration decision.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): LAW 467 or permission of the instructor.
Restriction(s): Restricted to Upper-Year Law students.
Note: Students with credit for COMM 487 may not receive credit for this course.

Will focus on evaluating tax policies by examining their tax equity implications, social and economic consequences, and administrative feasibility. This seminar will provide students with the opportunity to engage in tax policy issues, resulting in a heightened appreciation of the social and economic implications of tax policy, an increased ability to evaluate tax policies, and a deeper understanding of technical tax law rules. Topics include: (1) criteria for and methods of evaluating income tax policies; (2) theories of income; (3) the tax mix; (4) the use of the income tax system to implement tax expenditures; (5) the preferential treatment of certain groups and entities under the tax system; (6) the detrimental effects of taxes on certain segments of society or the economy the appropriate tax unit; and (7) taxation as a means to redistribute wealth. Students will be introduced a number of resources specifically designed for tax research and will be expected to use them to complete assignments. This seminar should be of interest to students who desire to practice tax law in a private firm or in government as well as those students interested, more generally, in the social and economic implications of tax law.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 477.3
Note: Students may receive credit for only one of LAW 888 or LAW 488, as they are cross-listed.

This course publishes the Saskatchewan Law Review. The work involves selecting and editing material submitted for publication, participating in policy decisions, proofreading, and other miscellaneous tasks. Each student also undertakes written work for possible publication in the Review.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: A one-year commitment to the Review is required. Academic credit is, however, awarded only for one term. Students will designate the term for which academic credit is awarded.

A 3-credit one-semester (13 week) academic seminar. The seminar is designed as an opportunity for students to critically reflect upon their clinical experiences, the law, the legal system, and their roles as legal advocates. The seminar attempts to create a balance between substantive content and more critical reflective discussions about the relevant clinical literature and its application to the experiences of the students. Critical questions relating to professional responsibility, the legal system, and the limits and possibilities of legal practice in situations of social injustice will be examined throughout the term. In many classes, the 'case rounds' model will be used, wherein students discuss and analyze their files and clinical work as a group, and learn from each other's experiences.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Corequisite(s): LAW 492.12
Note: Students with credit for LAW 482.3 may not take this course for credit. Students may have credit for only one of LAW 491 or 497.

A 12 credit unit one-semester (13 week) practicum. Students will be placed at Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City (CLASSIC) where they will take on the role of legal advocates under the close supervision of the clinic's supervising lawyers and the course instructor. Students will assume carriage of client files in a wide variety of substantive law areas. They will learn, through experience, supervision and ongoing skills and substantive law training, about all aspects of legal practice in a poverty law context, including client interviewing and counseling, file management, legal research, the preparation of legal documents, letters and memoranda, and representing clients in administrative law hearings and provincial court trials. Students may also have opportunities to conduct public legal education sessions in the community and be involved in community based projects and law reform initiatives. The practicum will provide students an opportunity to engage the law more deeply, to explore the various real-life contexts in which it works, and to build relationships with the people whose lives it affects. Students will experience the dynamics of lawyer-client relationships, develop professional identities, grapple with ethical issues, and develop lawyering skills. The practicum will be graded on a pass-fail basis. However, a detailed letter of explanation and evaluation of the student's performance can be provided upon request. The practicum will provide extensive exposure to criminal, civil and administrative law procedure, evidence law, trial advocacy, negotiation, legal research and writing, and professional responsibility.

Corequisite(s): LAW 491.3 or LAW 497.3
Note: Students with credit for LAW 305.6 may not take this course for credit.

This seminar allows interested students to undertake a substantial research project. Enrolment is limited to two students for each of the professors willing to take on student(s). The course is not timetabled as a convenient meeting time can be arranged to suit the instructors and students concerned. Students must approach individual professors with a research proposal. All proposals must be approved by the Studies Committee.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

This course explores critical nation-building issues of Indigenous peoples in North America. It will use the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (HPAIED) theory. It will focus on the issues surrounding the assertion of self-determination by Indigenous Nations. Students will examine current Indigenous institutions of self-government; and assess policies of Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments, and capacity building methods for effective governance. Students will describe augmenting leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities for nation building.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): LAW 436.3 Canadian Aboriginal Law and/or LAW 453.3 Aboriginal Law and Policy in Canada, or another equivalent course that provides historical information on the current status of Indigenous peoples, as approved by the instructor.

This seminar is a part of the Intensive Clinical Law program and accompanies the 12-credit Clinical Law Practicum (Law 492.12). It has two broad and inter-related aims. First, it explores the norms, values, and rules that govern lawyers when they confront moral or ethical problems in practice, with focus on the clinical/poverty law context. Issues including choice of client, withdrawal, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and ethics in advocacy will be explored. Throughout we will ponder the question: what, fundamentally, is the role of the lawyer? Second, the seminar will examine the structure and regulation of the legal profession. Topics of study will include admission, discipline, competence, and other regulatory issues. Throughout, students will approach the issues and topics through the lens of their clinical experiences at CLASSIC.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 1 Reading hours
Corequisite(s): LAW 492.12
Note: Students must be registered in LAW 492 concurrently with this course. Students who have prior credit for LAW 492 are not eligible to take this course. Students with credit for LAW 421 cannot receive credit for this course. Students may have credit for only one of LAW 491 or 497.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Critical analysis of the handling of sexual assault cases by the legal process. Examines the exercise of police, prosecutorial, and judicial discretion within a framework of human rights and legal principles augmented by tools and perspectives of legal theory, psychiatry, medicine, and the social sciences.

Prerequisite(s): J.D. or LL.B. with training in criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence.
Note: Students with credit for LAW 418 will not receive credit for this course.

Students will gain an understanding of contemporary debates about universalism and of the meaning of human rights in Canada with attention to political theory and international underpinnings. The concept of discrimination and the constitutional position of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Canada. Detailed analysis of the concept of equality as it is embedded in domestic anti-discrimination law and enshrined in section 15 of the Charter.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students with credit for LAW 432 will not receive credit for this course.

This mandatory seminar investigates, across time and space, manifestations of, and alternative answers to, theoretical questions of law such as the nature of law and judicial reasoning, tensions between natural law and positivism, law and morality, law and politics, law and justice, law and order, and law and the economy.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

This course will provide a survey of both actual and potential role for the law in protecting the integrity of the environment from threats posed by scientific and technological advances through the exploitation of resources, rapid development, and population growth, among others. Core topics will include recent developments and debates in Canadian environmental law, such as coordination and the appropriate distribution of responsibilities among different levels of government and private actors the roles of public and private law, and environmental law’s interdisciplinary dimensions.

Prerequisite(s): Admission into a graduate Law program.
Note: This course is a hybrid course with LAW 444, and this course cannot be taken for credit after previously taking LAW 444

Students will develop and apply advanced knowledge of health law to specific topics in the areas of health care and medical research.

Note: LAW 314.3 or equivalent is recommended as a prerequisite but not required. Students with credit for LAW 458 will not receive credit for this course.

Students interested in Indigenous Rights topics will study one of their contemporary applications with a major economic significance while students interested in the law of natural resource development will have a strong exposure to the major impacts on this area of law of rights held by Indigenous Peoples. This course will connect Canadian constitutional law and international law doctrine on Indigenous Rights.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Restriction(s): Open to students registered in the L.L.M. program.
Note: Students with credit for LAW 498 - Indigenous Rights and Natural Resources will not receive credit for this course.

Students will undertake a substantial research project in an area relevant to their interests and thesis topic. Meeting times will be scheduled to suit the instructors and students concerned. Students must approach individual professors with a research proposal. All proposals must be approved by the Graduate Chair.

Note: Students must approach individual professors with a research proposal. All proposals must be approved by the Graduate Chair.

Individualized research projects may be undertaken with the supervision of faculty members often in conjunction with courses offered in the College of Law. Topics are chosen in consultation with faculty advisors to complement areas of thesis research. Assessment will be based primarily upon a series of written assignments prepared by the student over the term. Topics chosen may be selected from the following areas: Aboriginal Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Agricultural Law or Human Rights, subject to faculty availability.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Individualized research projects may be undertaken with the supervision of faculty members often in conjunction with courses offered in the College of Law. Topics are chosen in consultation with faculty advisors to complement areas of thesis research. Assessment will be based primarily upon a series of written assignments prepared by the student over the term. Topics chosen may be selected from the following areas: Aboriginal Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Agricultural Law or Human Rights, subject to faculty availability.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Presentations regarding current research will be made by visiting faculty, faculty and graduate students. All graduate students in residence must make a presentation at least once each year. The seminar may also seek to provide for review of current literature and developments.

Note: All graduate students are required to attend, and to participate in the course to the satisfaction of the Law Graduate Studies Committee. This is a non-credit course.

Completion of original research and writing of an LL.M. thesis.

Students enrolled in Special Case PhD in Law must register for this course. This course is designed to enhance the student’s knowledge of the subject area. Readings are assigned on an individual basis. The course is expected to prepare the student for writing the PhD thesis. Attendance is obligatory. The course in non-credited.