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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 |