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Courses
LAWS 3000.03: Graduate Seminar on Legal Education and Legal Scholarship
This seminar is a required class for students in the LLM programme. It is also open to, and may be required for, JSD students. Its purpose is to explore various issues in legal education and legal research from a comparative perspective. The first part of the class is devoted to an examination of the purposes of legal education and the various ways that legal education is structured and carried out in different jurisdictions. The remainder of the class is spent examining different methodological and ideological approaches to legal research, with special emphasis on how each of the seminar participants would see his or her development as a legal scholar.
Evaluation is made in relation to a number of components including, but not limited to, a research assignment, a book review, class participation, a series of reaction papers and a “methodological prospectus” or "review essay" focusing on the student's area of research interest. The class begins in September and is completed by the end of February.
A wide range of upper year courses are open to graduate students. For details, review the descriptions in the course calendar.
NB Some courses are excluded, for example, moots and placements.
Course offerings may vary from year to year, depending on availability. Please review the timetable as it becomes available.
Please note that every student's course selection must be approved by the Graduate Studies Committee.