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Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (105 credits)

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At the Faculty students pursue an integrated program of studies which qualifies them for the Bar Admission Programs in all Canadian provinces. The Faculty grants concurrently both its degrees - Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) - to candidates who have successfully completed 105 credits.

Students should consult the Faculty Website for updates: /law-studies/.

Required Courses (49 credits)

First Year

The following 29 credits of courses may be taken only in the first year.

LAWG 100D1 (3) Contractual Obligations
LAWG 100D2 (3) Contractual Obligations
LAWG 101D1 (2.5) Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts
LAWG 101D2 (2.5) Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts
PRAC 147D1 (1.5) Introductory Legal Research
PRAC 147D2 (1.5) Introductory Legal Research
PRV1 144D1 (2.5) Civil Law Property
PRV1 144D2 (2.5) Civil Law Property
PUB2 101D1 (3) Constitutional Law
PUB2 101D2 (3) Constitutional Law
PUB3 116D1 (2) Foundations
PUB3 116D2 (2) Foundations

N.B. In the winter term of the first year, students may also take one of the following courses: required course PUB2 111 (Criminal Law), or complementary courses LAWG 273 (Family Law), PUB2 105 (Public International Law) or PUB2 400 (The Administrative Process).

Second Year

The following 13 credits of courses may be taken only in the second year.

PRAC 155D1 (1.5) Legal Ethics and Advocacy
PRAC 155D2 (1.5) Legal Ethics and Advocacy
PROC 200 (3) Advanced Civil Law Obligations
PRV3 200 (3) Advanced Common Law Obligations
PRV4 144 (4) Common Law Property

Any Year

The following 7 credits of courses may be taken in any year.

PROC 124 (4) Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure
PUB2 111 (3) Criminal Law

Complementary Courses (12 credits)

Complementary Civil Law Courses:

Students must take at least 4.5 credits from the following list of advanced civil law courses and from the trans-systemic course list:

BUS2 461 (3) Insurance
LEEL 470 (3) Employment Law
PROC 349 (3) Lease, Enterprise, Suretyship
PRV1 255 (3) Successions
PRV2 270 (3) Law of Persons
PRV4 448 (3) Administration Property of Another and Trusts

Complementary Common Law Courses:

Students must take at least 4.5 credits from the following list of advanced common law courses and from the trans-systemic course list:

PRV3 434 (3) Remedies
PRV4 449 (3) Equity and Trusts
PRV4 451 (3) Real Estate Transactions
PRV4 456 (2) Wills and Estates
PRV4 500 (3) Restitution
PRV5 182 (2) Advanced Torts

The following trans-systemic courses count for half their credit weight in each of the advanced common law and advanced civil law course lists above:

BUS2 365 (4) Business Associations
CMPL 522 (3) Medical Liability
LAWG 200 (4) Sale
LAWG 273 (3) Family Law
LAWG 300 (3) Family Property Law
LAWG 316 (3) Private International Law
LAWG 400 (4) Secured Transactions
LAWG 415 (3) Evidence (Civil Matters)
PRV5 483 (3) Consumer Law

Social Diversity and Human Rights Courses:

Students must take at least 3 credits from the following courses:

CMPL 500 (3) Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
CMPL 504 (3) Feminist Legal Theory
CMPL 511 (3) Social Diversity and Law
CMPL 516 (3) International Development Law
CMPL 565 (3) International Humanitarian Law
CMPL 571 (3) International Law of Human Rights
CMPL 575 (3) Discrimination and the Law
LAWG 503 (3) Inter-American Human Rights
LEEL 482 (3) Law and Poverty
PUB2 105 (3) Public International Law
PUB2 451 (3) Immigration and Refugee Law
PUB2 500 (3) Law and Psychiatry
PUB2 502 (3) International Criminal Law
PUB3 115 (3) Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Other Courses (44 credits)

Students must take other complementary or elective courses offered within the Faculty or approved as credit equivalences in order to complete the 105-credit degree requirement.

For students who entered the Faculty in 2004-2005 or later, these other credits may include up to six non-Law credits. For students who entered the Faculty prior to 2004-2005, these other credits may include up to 12 non-Law credits.

Minimum Writing Requirement

All students are required to submit at least one research paper. This requirement may be satisfied by:

a) writing an essay in a course in which the essay constitutes no less than 75% of the final grade;

b) writing a term essay under independent supervision, for credit, within the Faculty of Law;

c) writing an article, note or comment of equivalent substance that is published or accepted for publication in the Â鶹AV Law Journal and approved by the Faculty Adviser to that publication.

Papers written jointly do not satisfy this requirement.

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Faculty of Law—2010-2011 (last updated Dec. 17, 2010) (disclaimer)
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