Courses

Please note that not all courses are offered every year. Please refer to the revised list of courses under Course Selection Materials for a list of current offerings.

For further information on Specializations in the MELP (Marine & Environmental Law Programme), Business Law or Health Law please click on the link.

First year compulsory courses:

Please note: an e-mail will be sent from the Director of Admissions on July 10th, with regards to information and on-line registration.

LAWS 1000 - Contracts and Judicial Rule-Making
LAWS 1001 - Criminal Justice: The Individual and the State
LAWS 1003 - Fundamentals of Public Law
LAWS 1500 - Orientation to Law
LAWS 1004 - Legal Research and Writing
LAWS 1005 - Property in its Historical Context
LAWS 1006 - Tort Law and Damage Compensation

Second and third-year required courses:
LAWS 2061 - Civil Procedure
LAWS 2062 - Constitutional Law
LAWS 2099 - The Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility

Second and third-year optional courses:
LAWS 2120 - Aboriginal Peoples Law
LAWS 2000 - Administrative Law
LAWS 2172 - Advanced Legal Research
LAWS 2192 - Advanced Negligence: Medical Malpractice
LAWS 2113 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
LAWS 2191 - Animals and the Law
LAWS 2081 - Bankruptcy and Insolvency
LAWS 2153 - Business and Environmental Law
LAWS 2002 - Business Associations
LAWS 2108 - Canadian-American Moot Court Competition (Trilateral Moot)
LAWS 2123 - Canadian Legal History
LAWS 2040 - Civil Trial Practice
LAWS 2092 - Clinical Class in Criminal Law
LAWS 2003 - Clinical Law
LAWS 2094 - Comparative Constitutional Law
LAWS 2009 - Comparative Criminal Law
LAWS 2169 - Competition Law
LAWS 2005 - Conflict of Laws
LAWS 2218 - Construction Law
LAWS 2144 - Corporate/Securities Law Moot
LAWS 2006 - Corporate Finance
LAWS 2129 - Corporate Transactions
LAWS 2135 - Court of Appeal Placement
LAWS 2045 - Criminal Law Problems
LAWS 2091 - Criminal Procedure
LAWS 2046 - Criminal Trial Practice
LAWS 2198 - Critical Perspectives on Law
LAWS 2194 - Critical Race and Legal Theory I: A Survey Of 'Race' and Law In Canada
LAWS 2189 - Crown Law
LAWS 2216 - Current Issues in Corporate Law
LAWS 2069 - Directed Research Paper
LAWS 2070 - Directed Research Paper
LAWS 2071 - Directed Research Paper
LAWS 2072 - Directed Research Paper
LAWS 2180 - Directed Research Project
LAWS 2117 - Education Law
LAWS 2223/2224 - Elder Law
LAWS 2048 - Employment Law
LAWS 2213 - Energy Law
LAWS 2096 - Entertainment Law
LAWS 2104 - Environmental Law
LAWS 2225 - Environmental Law Placement
LAWS 2133 - Environmental Law II - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change
LAWS 2033 - Equity and Trusts
LAWS 2050 - Estate Planning
LAWS 2215 - European Union Law: EUCE Visiting Professorship
LAWS 2008 - Evidence
LAWS 2163 - Family Law Dispute Resolution
LAWS 2110 - Family Law I
LAWS 2112 - Financial Consequences of Marriage and Marriage Breakdown
LAWS 2020 - Fisheries Law
LAWS 2107 - Gale Cup Moot Court Competition
LAWS 2087 - General Jurisprudence
LAWS 3069 - Graduate Directed Research Paper
LAWS 3000 - Graduate Seminar on Legal Education and Legal Scholarship
LAWS 2115 - Health Care Ethics and the Law
LAWS 2132 - Health Law
LAWS 2193 - Health Law and Policy: Current Issues
LAWS 2157 - Health Law Exchange
LAWS 2167 - Health Law Placement
LAWS 2159 - Health Systems Law and Policy
LAWS 2195 - Human Rights Law & Protection in Canada
LAWS 2097 - Immigration and Refugee Law
LAWS 2170 - Information Technology Transactions
LAWS 2010 - Insurance Law
LAWS 2217 - Intellectual Property Commercialization Placement
LAWS 2203 - Intellectual Property II
LAWS 2178 - Intellectual Property Law
LAWS 2197 - International Criminal Law
LAWS 2051 - International Environmental Law
LAWS 2074 - International Human Rights Law: Facing 'Race' as a Factor
LAWS 2205 - International Humanitarian Law / Law of Armed Conflict
LAWS 2012 - International Law
LAWS 2056 - International Trade Law
LAWS 2168 - Internet and Media Law
LAWS 2103 - Jessup Moot
LAWS JCP - Judges' Clerks Program
LAWS 2013 - Judicial Remedies
LAWS 2206 - Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Rights Moot
LAWS 2177 - Labour Arbitration Moot
LAWS 2052 - Labour Law - Administration of the Collective Agreement
LAWS 2014 - Labour Law I
LAWS 2066 - Labour Law Problems
LAWS 2039 - Laskin Moot
LAWS 2210 - Law and Religion
LAWS 2207 - Law and Sexual Orientation
LAWS 2019 - Law and Technology
LAWS 2211 - Law of International Trade and Shipping
LAWS 2121 - Law of Succession
LAWS 2022 - Law of the Sea
LAWS 2023 - Legal Accounting
LAWS 2075 - Legislation
LAWS 2124 - Marine Environmental Protection Law
LAWS 2125 - Marine Environmental Protection
LAWS 2001 - Maritime Law and Practice (Maritime Law I)
LAWS 2127 - Mental Disability Law (Exam)
LAWS 2128 - Mental Disability Law (Paper)
LAWS 2182 - Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Changes of Corporate Control
LAWS 2175 - Nova Scotia Supreme Court (Family Division) Placement
LAWS 2068 - Ocean Law and Policy
LAWS 2079 - Oil and Gas Law
LAWS 1002 - Orientation to Law
LAWS 2222 - Patent Law
LAWS 2208 - Pension Law
LAWS 2015 - Planning Law
LAWS 2076 - Poverty Law and Human Rights
LAWS 2183 - Privacy Law
LAWS 2221 - Public Health Law
LAWS 2209 - Property Rights in Investment Securities
LAWS 2700 - Queen's/Dalhousie Spring International Law Program
LAWS 2026 - Real Estate Transactions
LAWS 2137 - Regulation of Financial Institutions
LAWS 2219 - Regulatory Systems in Environment and Health
LAWS 2174 - Restitution
LAWS 2188 - Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice
LAWS 2145 - Sale of Goods
LAWS 2204 - Secured Transactions
LAWS 2138 - Securities Regulation
LAWS 2171 - Sopinka/McKelvey Moot
LAWS 2160 - Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Placement
LAWS 2029 - Taxation I
LAWS 2030 - Taxation II
LAWS 2106 - Taxation of Corporations
LAWS 2139 - The Bertha Wilson Visitorship in Human Rights
LAWS 2179 - The Torys Visiting Professorship in Business Law
LAWS 2031 - Torts II
LAWS 2152 - Women and the Law - Introduction
LAWS 2018 - Youth Law