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A joint Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) with integrated Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) program is offered by the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Law.
Students complete 45 credits for the M.S.W. degree and 87 credits for the integrated B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees for a total of 132 credits.
Social Work : Quantitative methods used in social work, including data collection and analysis, critical appraisal of existing research, and proposal writing. Descriptive and explanatory designs, covering quantitative methods used in experimental studies, surveys, and in analyzing administrative data.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Trocme, Nicolas (Winter)
Social Work : Supervised educational experience in social work practice integrating practice with theoretical knowledge characteristic of the specialized field. Individual and group instruction. Involves approximately 115 hours of work in a field setting.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Hetherington, Karen (Fall) Hetherington, Karen (Winter) Hetherington, Karen (Summer)
Social Work : Supervised educational experience in social work practice integrating practice with theoretical knowledge characteristic of the specialized field. Individual and group instruction. Involves approximately 115 hours of work in a field setting.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Hetherington, Karen (Fall) Hetherington, Karen (Winter) Hetherington, Karen (Summer)
Social Work : Qualitative methods used in social work, including data collection and analysis, critical appraisal of existing research, and proposal writing. Description and interpretation of social phenomena, the foundations of qualitative research and methods of qualitative inquiry.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Brotman, Shari (Fall)
Social Work : Supervised educational experience in social work practice integrating practice with theoretical knowledge characteristic of the specialized field. Individual and group instruction. Involves approximately 115 hours of work in a field setting.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Hetherington, Karen (Fall) Hetherington, Karen (Winter) Hetherington, Karen (Summer)
Social Work : Students will produce an essay consisting of: 1) identifying a substantive area which integrates core legal and social work knowledge; 2) analyzing the legal and behavioural science information in each substantive area; 3) developing and applying relevant theoretical frameworks; 4) developing research questions to be examined by qualitative or quantitative methods; 5) integrating research findings.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Students complete 15 credits of SWRK 500 or 600 level courses. Up to 6 graduate-level credits may be taken outside the School of Social Work with the approval of the academic adviser.
Law General : Basic concepts of contractual obligation in the Civil and Common Law. Formation and consent; formalities; cause and consideration; relativity of contracts and privity; lesion and unconscionability; performance and breach; frustration and force majeure; contractual remedies.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Dedek, Helge; Belley, Jean-Guy; Jukier, Rosalie (Fall)
Law General : See LAWG 100D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Dedek, Helge; Belley, Jean-Guy; Smith, Stephen (Winter)
Law General : Basic concepts of extra-contractual obligations in the Civil and Common Law. Fault; causation; reasons for exoneration; apportionment of liability; forms of injury for which recovery can be obtained; limitations on damages; factual and legal presumptions; responsibility for the acts of others and for damage caused by property.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Emerich, Yaell; Saumier, Genevieve; Resta, Giorgio (Fall)
Law General : See LAWG 101D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Emerich, Yaell; Saumier, Genevieve; Resta, Giorgio (Winter)
Practicums : Introduction to legal research skills in Civil and Common Law jurisdictions, including computer-assisted research. Teaching occurs in small groups, and focuses on materials from courts, administrative tribunals, legislatures, executive and administrative agencies, and some international sources. In so doing, it provides an introduction to basic issues of process and authority.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lamed, Helena Jane (Fall)
Practicums : See PRAC 147D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lamed, Helena Jane (Winter)
Practicums : Introduction to philosophical concepts of ethics and examines issues in ethics and responsibility in the legal profession, such as self-regulation, confidentiality, loyalty, conflicts of interest, whistle-blowing, and access to justice. Students will carry out research and writing assignments throughout the year on specific problems in these areas.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lamed, Helena Jane (Fall)
Practicums : See PRAC 155D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lamed, Helena Jane (Winter)
Procedure : Pre-trial civil procedure and applications for appeal in Canada. Launching a civil action and pleadings; jurisdiction and judicial organization; prerogative writs and evocation; motions and interlocutory relief; pre-trial mediation and settlement; discovery and costs. Emphasis on Quebec Code of Civil Procedure, Ontario Courts of Justice Act and Rules of Practice, Supreme Court Rules and Federal Court Rules.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Procedure : Pre-trial civil procedure and applications for appeal in Canada. Launching a civil action and pleadings; jurisdiction and judicial organization; prerogative writs and evocation; motions and interlocutory relief; pre-trial mediation and settlement; discovery and costs. Emphasis on Quebec Code of Civil Procedure, Ontario Courts of Justice Act and Rules of Practice, Supreme Court Rules and Federal Court Rules.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Procedure : General theory of obligations in the Civil Law tradition, the interaction of contractual and extra-contractual obligations; introduction to unjust enrichment; relationship of general law to special regimes of compensation such as no-fault regimes; certain aspects of the modalities, transfer, alteration and extinction of obligations.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Jutras, Daniel (Fall)
Private Law 1 : The theoretical framework of property law. The patrimony and the basic classifications of property. The evolution of land rights in Quebec including the rights of Native Peoples. The study of real rights and their modalities. Possession and its effects. Publicity and its effects. Some consideration of regulation in the public interest and the interest of the family.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Moyse, Pierre-Emmanuel; Lametti, David; Belanger, Veronique (Fall)
Private Law 1 : See PRV1 144D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Moyse, Pierre-Emmanuel; Lametti, David; Belanger, Veronique (Winter)
Private Law 3 : Relationship between tort, contract, and restitution in theory and practice (including consideration of negligent misrepresentation, economic loss, exclusion clauses, and means of overcoming problems of privity); relationship between Common law and no-fault regimes; special problems in civil liability, such as non-feasance and the liability of public authorities.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Smith, Lionel David; Gold, Richard (Fall) Smith, Stephen (Winter)
Private Law 4 : Classification of proprietary interests; concepts of ownership, seisin and possession; legal and equitable interests; acquisition of proprietary interests including gifts and assignments; doctrine of estates; future interests; concurrent ownership; rights in property of another including bailments, covenants, easements, profits and licenses; adverse possession; proprietary remedies registration systems.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Anker, Kirsten; Gold, Richard; Piper, Stamatia (Fall)
Public Law 2 : A comprehensive treatment of the theory, law and practice of the constitution, including legislative, executive and judicial institutions in Canada. The rule of law in executive government and in the lawmaking process. Parliamentary sovereignty, constitutional amendment, and the federal system, including the division of legislative powers. Guarantees of fundamental freedoms with emphasis on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Leckey, Robert; Kong, Hoi Leun; Gelinas, Fabien (Fall)
Public Law 2 : See PUB2 101D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Leckey, Robert; Kong, Hoi Leun; Gelinas, Fabien (Winter)
Public Law 2 : The exploration of major problems in criminal law and its administration; emphasis on basic concepts which govern the implementation of the Criminal Code in Canada.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Healy, Patrick; Akhavan, Payam (Fall) Nadon, Thierry (Winter) Campbell, Angela (Summer)
Public Law 3 : Overview of the spirit, history, and sources of Civil and Common Law traditions in their Canadian manifestations; introduction to Aboriginal legal traditions. The course explores issues of legal history and institutions, relationship between private and public law, comparative methodology, legal theory and ethics.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Crepeau, Francois; Manderson, Desmond Robert; Anker, Kirsten; Muniz-Fraticelli, Victor; Gold, Marc Emmett (Fall)
Public Law 3 : See PUB3 116D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Crepeau, Francois; Manderson, Desmond Robert; Anker, Kirsten; Muniz-Fraticelli, Victor; Gold, Marc Emmett (Winter)
Students complete 38 credits of complementary courses toward the B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees.
Students complete 4.5 credits of civil law courses. The following courses count for their full credit weight as civil law.
Business Law 2 : The general principles of the insurance contract under the law of Quebec, with reference to the Ontario Insurance Act and the insurance acts of other common law provinces.
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: Lamed, Helena Jane (Summer)
Labour/Employmt/Environmt Law : Survey of the employment contract including hiring practices, dismissals, duties of the employer and the employee including loyalty, non-competition, impact of statutes (Labour Standards Act, Charter of the French Language, etc...) and recourses. The purpose of the course is to deal with non-collective agreement employment contracts, which govern most of the working population.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Davis, Thomas Michael (Fall)
Procedure : The contracts of lease, including some aspects of residential leases, enterprise and suretyship in the law of Quebec.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Paquin, Julie (Fall)
Private Law 1 : The gratuitous transmission of property in the law of Quebec by reason of gift, will, trust or legal succession.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Private Law 2 : The existence and attributes of physical and legal persons in the Civil Law of Quebec. Modes of recognition of legal persons. Enjoyment and exercise of civil and personality rights; domicile; acts of civil status; capacity and regimes of supervised protection. Some introduction to rights under the Quebec and Canadian Charter.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Menard, Jean-Frederick (Winter)
Private Law 4 : The basic law on the administration of the property of another by those performing acts of custody, simple administration or full administration. Includes those holding property under tutorship, curatorship, testamentary executorship, deposit, mandate, substitution and trust.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Students complete 4.5 credits of common law courses. The following courses count for their full credit weight as common law.
Private Law 3 : A study of selected private law remedies available at common law, in equity and under statute.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Private Law 4 : A consideration of the law of gratuitous transfers, concentrating on the express trust: the nature of the trust, the creation and conditions of validity of the trust, effect of failure, obligations and interests arising under the trust, variation, renovation, and termination of the trust. Related topics such as gifts, wills, intestate succession, powers of appointment and the rule against perpetuities may also be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Smith, Lionel David (Fall)
Private Law 4 : Problems arising out of the vendor and purchaser relationship. The contract of sale in its drafting, interpretation and enforcement; fixtures, recording and land titles systems; mortgages. Emphasis on the law of Ontario.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Private Law 4 : Formal and intrinsic validity of domestic and international wills; survivorship; the administration of estates; methods of transmitting property on death other than by will; intestate succession; dependents' relief.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Private Law 4 : The law relating to the restitution of benefits wrongfully or unfairly acquired: a study of unjust enrichment as a doctrinal basis for various remedies at common law, in equity and under statute and the role of unjust enrichment as an integral part of the common law alongside contract and tort.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Rabinovitch, Ryan (Fall)
Private Law 5 : This seminar examines in depth one or more selected problems in the law of torts such as protection of privacy, interference with economic and other relations, defamation, products liability, professional malpractice, strict liability, the future of tort law, and statutory compensation schemes.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Somerville, Margaret (Winter)
The following trans-systemic courses count half their credit weight toward the civil law requirement of 4.5 credits and half their credit weight toward the common law requirement of 4.5 credits.
Business Law 2 : An introduction to agency or mandate, partnership and co-operatives. The nature of corporate personality; the two systems of incorporation; constitutional problems; the raising and maintenance of a company's capital; the organs of the company; and protection of investors and minority shareholders.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Choudhury, Barnali (Fall) Paquin, Julie (Winter)
Comparative Law : Trans-systemic and critical examination of medical liability issues, including doctor-hospital-patient relationship; medical duty of care; medical fault and causation; wrongful life, birth and conception; informed consent and refusal; lack of resources; defective products; nosocomial infections; contaminated blood transfusions; interaction between law and science; future of medical liability.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Law General : The contract of sale in the civil law and common law traditions. Nature and scope of the contract of sale; conditions of formation; obligations of the vendor/seller, including delivery, quality, title; obligations of the buyer, transfer of title; manufacturer's liability.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Edwards, Jeffrey F (Fall)
Law General : Study of conjugality and other close personal relationships as understood by law; parent-child relationships; dissolution of conjugal relationships; support rights at the end of close personal relationships.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Campbell, Angela (Fall) Leckey, Robert (Winter)
Law General : Administration of and entitelment to wealth in conjugal and other close personal relationships, in common and civil law, with consideration of other legal traditions. Management and distribution of family resources through matrimonial regimes, marriage and domestic contracts, household mandates, common law trusts, legislative division of family assets, liberalities, social practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Law General : The function, nature and sources of Private International Law in the common law and civil law traditions. Conflicts of laws; general operation of conflict rules (application of foreign law, substitution of laws of forum). Conflicts of jurisdiction and recognition of foreign judgments. Harmonization and unification of laws.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Walsh, Catherine (Fall) Saumier, Genevieve (Winter)
Law General : Main incidents of law and suretyship and the law of real security in the common and civil traditions; security on land and commodities; nature of suretyship and effects of a contract among the creditor, debtor, surety and co-sureties; classifications and types of preferences, priorities and real security.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Walsh, Catherine (Fall)
Law General : Basic principles of evidence as applied and developed in the context of the civil process in all jurisdictions in Canada. Topics include: burden and standard of proof; relevance; the different kinds of evidence, i.e. documentary evidence; testimonial evidence (lay and opinion evidence), presumptions, admissions and real evidence; the principal rules of admissibility, including the hearsay rule and its exceptions.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Grossman, David Andrew; Ferland, Patrick M (Winter)
Private Law 5 : A comparative study of civil and common law and consumer protection law in Quebec and in Canada.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Saumier, Genevieve (Fall)
Students must take at least 3 credits from the following courses related to social diversity and human rights.
Comparative Law : Current legal topics relating to native peoples, including the concept of aboriginal title, and constitutional aspects of contemporary land claims. Aspects of Canadian law relating to native peoples, their constitutional status, and hunting and fishing rights.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Anker, Kirsten (Winter)
Comparative Law : Feminist theory and its relevance and application to law, including feminist methodologies in law, the public versus private dichotomy, and changing conceptions of equality.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Narain, Vrinda (Winter)
Comparative Law : The interaction of law and cultural diversity. Through the use of a number of case studies, we will examine: 1. The empirical effect of cultural diversity on legal systems. 2. Institutional structures to accommodate diversity. 3. Theoretical perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Akhavan, Payam (Winter)
Comparative Law : The law and economics of development, including the role of agencies of the United Nations in development, the role of UNCTAD in formulating uniform rules of international trade, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and their role in financing development.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Nononsi, Aristide (Fall)
Comparative Law : Rules governing international and internal armed conflicts; historical and philosophical foundations; constraints on means to wage war; treatment of protected individuals, including prisoners of war, civilians and peacekeepers; enforcement, including belligerent reprisals and criminal prosecution; links with norms protecting human rights, the environment and cultural property; impact of cultural diversity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Comparative Law : International protection of human rights, particularly by the United Nations, its specialized agencies, and the Council of Europe.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Megret, Frederic (Winter)
Comparative Law : The protection of civil liberties in Canada with particular reference to public and private law remedies and emphasis on discrimination, race relations, language rights outside the Charter, and police powers.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Comparative Law : Equality rights and legal protections against discrimination under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and human rights legislation.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Sheppard, Colleen (Fall)
Law General : History and development of the Inter-American System, with a focus on the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Examination of their constitutive statutes. Survey of the mechanisms for redress provided by the Commission and the Court.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Labour/Employmt/Environmt Law : The differential character of the law concerning rich and poor as reflected in case studies in criminal law, consumer law, housing law, welfare law. The "delivery systems" available for legal services to the poor and alternative organizational models for legal services; the role of law schools, government and the professional bar.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Klein, Alana (Winter)
Public Law 2 : The traditional fields of International Law including nature and sources; recognition, territory and acquisition of territory; jurisdiction on the high seas; nationality; diplomatic and consular privileges and immunities; responsibility of states; interpretation of treaties; legal control of force and aspects of the U.N. Charter, special Canadian problems of international law.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Megret, Frederic; Jakhu, Ram S (Fall) Akhavan, Payam (Winter) Akhavan, Payam (Summer)
Public Law 2 : A study of Canadian and Quebec immigration and refugee law, practice and policy, with particular exploration of the historical development-and contemporary paradox-of border regulation; interface with national security, employment policy and trade theory; admissions categories and the construction of illegality; impact of Charter and international human rights law.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Fox Decent, Evan (Winter)
Public Law 2 : The roles of lawyers and psychiatrists in the handling of the mentally ill within the legal process. Consideration of the civil commitment and criminal commitment processes, insanity and "automatism" defences, the psychiatrist as expert witness, mental illness as a problem in relation to legal capacity. Some sessions will be conducted jointly with members of the psychiatric profession.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Public Law 2 : Crimes against the law of nations, war crimes (the Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann case), genocide and the way in which states co-operate to fight organized crime, terrorism, hijacking, etc. Topics include: jurisdiction (crimes committed in foreign countries, at sea, in aircraft, extradition, international judicial assistance) and the recognition and enforcement of foreign criminal sentences.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Public Law 3 : A critical analysis of the Charter and its implications for the legal process in general, and domestic human rights law in particular, organized around the following themes: pre-Charter human rights law and its legacy; general considerations respecting the entrenchment, application and interpretation of the Charter; procedural issues and judicial review under the Charter; advocacy under the Charter.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Narain, Vrinda (Fall)
Students select the remaining 26 credits from among Faculty of Law offerings.