Law
Bienvenue à la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill!
McGill’s distinctive legal education is one of the best in the world. It crosses boundaries of language, jurisdiction, legal tradition, discipline, and culture. It equips jurists with the critical knowledge, skills, and ethical grounding to excel as problem solvers and architects of social order. It prepares graduates for a world where boundaries are porous and shifting—where people, goods, and ideas move further and faster than ever.
Our double-degree program explores legal traditions from a unique comparative and integrated perspective. Consistent with the Faculty of Law’s location on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka people and with the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, our double-degree program increasingly includes Indigenous legal traditions. Within our graduate program’s vibrant community, our master’s and doctoral students receive dedicated attention from a diverse group of leading researchers. Our doctoral students receive a preparation for law teaching that has no equal.
La Faculté de droit est située au cœur de Montréal, une métropole francophone caractérisée par un environnement culturel dynamique et pluraliste. Cet environnement cosmopolite a guidé notre mission fondamentale. L’enseignement et la recherche s’y déroulent en anglais et en français, en droit civil comme en common law.
The Faculty is outward-looking and international, recruiting professors from around the world. The BCL/JD class entering in 2019 included students born in 29 countries and speaking 15 mother tongues, and our graduate student population is drawn from five continents.
We earned our extraordinary reputation with our unique program and path-breaking research. Our professors are deeply committed to our students’ success. And we’re taking steps to be more inclusive towards a broad range of learners—and to better represent our diverse society, including Canada’s indigenous peoples.
About Law
Graduate students in Law at McGill have one thing in common: a sharp curiosity to explore ideas and projects in an environment that is uniquely comparative and pluralist.
The extensive and impressive history of graduate teaching and supervision at McGill, combined with the innovations in legal pedagogy for which the Faculty of Law is celebrated, create
an unrivaled experience for graduate students. Grounded in Montreal, a city that embodies a lively mix of languages, cultures, and communities, the Faculty of Law invites students pursuing their D.C.L. and LL.M. degrees to discover and write within a community of legal scholars that is internationally renowned and engaging.
McGill's Faculty of Law is a meeting place for the languages of North America, for the world’s legal traditions, and for students who wish to participate in the graduate life of a truly outstanding, prestigious, and intellectually vibrant Faculty of Law.
The Faculty of Law offers a range of programs at the graduate level. These include the degrees of Master of Laws (LL.M.) with thesis and non-thesis options, Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.), and Graduate Certificates.
Students may choose to pursue either the LL.M. in general Law, Air and Space Law, Bioethics, Comparative Law, or Environment; or the D.C.L. in general Law, Comparative Law, or Air and Space Law. Graduate Certificates may only be completed in Comparative Law or in Air and Space Law.
Law Admission Requirements and Application Procedures
Admission Requirements
Applicants must submit their application through McGill's online application system at mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/how-apply/submit-your-application. For detailed information on the application process, please visit the Faculty website.
Language Requirement
Graduate-level courses are generally offered in English, and an adequate level of proficiency in English must be demonstrated for admission. In order to understand all course materials, the ability to speak and read French is an asset. At McGill's Faculty of Law, all students may choose to write essays, examinations, and theses in English or French. In areas such as the study of private law in the civilian tradition or comparative private law, a reading knowledge of French is essential.
For graduate applicants whose mother tongue is not English, and who have not completed an undergraduate or graduate degree from a recognized Canadian or American (English or French) institution or from a recognized foreign institution where English is the language of instruction, documented proof of English proficiency is required prior to admission. For a list of acceptable test scores and minimum requirements, visit mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies/admissions-guide/eligibility.
LL.M. Programs
Candidates for admission to the master's programs must hold a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Law (such as LL.B. or J.D.), with a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent). This standing does not guarantee admission; the Graduate Admissions Committee weighs the entire dossier, including the applicant's reference letters and the quality of the research proposal.
LL.M. Interdisciplinary Options
Note: The availability of these options is subject to relevant courses being offered in a given year.
- Environment Option: This option is available to students who apply for admission to the LL.M. Thesis or Non-Thesis program at the Faculty of Law. For further information, see the Environment page or visit the Bieler School of Environment.
- Bioethics Option: This option is available to students who apply for admission to the LL.M. Thesis program at the Faculty of Law. For further information, see the Bioethics page or visit the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy.
D.C.L. Programs
Applicants demonstrating outstanding academic ability will be considered for admission to the doctoral program.
In addition to the requirements for admission to the LL.M. programs, D.C.L. applicants must also hold a master's degree (or equivalent) in Law, with a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent). Admission to the doctoral program is always dependent on the availability of a suitable supervisor.
Graduate Certificate Programs
The requirements for admission to the graduate certificate programs are essentially the same as for the LL.M. programs, except that greater weight may be placed on professional experience. For further information, visit mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies/admissions-guide/eligibility. Graduate certificate programs are available in the following two fields:
- Graduate Certificate in Air and Space Law
- Graduate Certificate in Comparative Law
Application Procedures
McGill’s online application form for graduate program candidates is available at mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/how-apply.
See the Application Procedures page for detailed information.
Additional Requirements
The items below are additional requirements set by the Faculty of Law. For further information, visit mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies/admissions-guide/deadlines-and-documents.
- Proof of English proficiency (for applicants whose mother tongue is not English)
- Research Proposal (D.C.L. and LL.M. applicants)
- Personal Statement (graduate certificate applicants only)
- Two Reference Letters from academic referees
- Curriculum Vitae
- Master's thesis (D.C.L. applicants only)
Application Dates and Deadlines
Application opening dates are set by Enrolment Services in consultation with Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), while application deadlines are set by the Faculty of Law and may be revised at any time. Applicants must verify all deadlines and documentation requirements well in advance on the appropriate McGill departmental website; please consult the list at mcgill.ca/gps/contact/graduate-program.
Information on application deadlines is available at mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/how-apply/application-steps/application-deadlines.
The application deadline to all graduate programs in Law (LL.M., D.C.L., Graduate Certificates) is December 1. The Faculty of Law will not consider applications received on or after December 2.
The Faculty of Law offers Fall term admission only; the Faculty will not consider applications for Winter or Summer entry. Applications submitted for the Winter and Summer terms will be cancelled without reimbursement of the application fee.
Note: The application fee is non-refundable.
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 five inter-related concentrations.
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:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CMPL 500 | Indigenous Peoples and the State. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and the State. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current legal topics relating to Indigenous peoples, including the concept of Indigenous title, and constitutional aspects of contemporary land claims. Aspects of Canadian law relating to Indigenous peoples, their constitutional status, and hunting and fishing rights. | ||
| PUB2 501 | Advanced Criminal Law. | 3 |
Advanced Criminal Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Specific crimes and defenses, and problems in procedure, as a continuation of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Selected topics will be announced in advance. | ||
| CMPL 505 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 547 | Canadian Legal History. | 3 |
Canadian Legal History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The history of Canadian law with emphasis on social history of law and legal history of Canadian society. | ||
| CMPL 601 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 602 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 519 | Comparative Modern Legal History. | 3 |
Comparative Modern Legal History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in contemporary methods of legal history, comparative theories of history, representative North Atlantic historiographical traditions, and especially select issues in modern legal history. Issues include professionalization, institutionalizing customary norms state formation, application of state law, and official normativity in popular culture. | ||
| CMPL 504 | Feminist Legal Theory. | 3 |
Feminist Legal Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Feminist theory and its relevance and application to law, including feminist methodologies in law, the public versus private dichotomy, and changing conceptions of equality. | ||
| CMPL 603 | Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. | 3 |
Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current topics in human rights and cultural diversity. | ||
| CMPL 501 | Jurisprudence. | 3 |
Jurisprudence. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The main schools of jurisprudence and the most significant writings, particularly contemporary writings, in legal philosophy. | ||
| LAWG 625 | Legal Education Seminar. | 3 |
Legal Education Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A review of the aims, objectives, methods and techniques of legal education, including design and execution of the curriculum; an inquiry into law's ontology and legal epistemology; an examination of practical issues (attending graduate school, selecting a supervisor, types of legal research and employment as a law teacher). | ||
| CMPL 506 | Legal Theory. | 3 |
Legal Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The philosophical basis of private law, from a comparative and historical perspective. | ||
| CMPL 600 | Legal Traditions. | 3 |
Legal Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the concept of a legal tradition, including elements of particular legal traditions, their philosophical foundations, their implementation through institutions, and their influence on one another. | ||
| CMPL 507 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| PRV4 500 | Restitution. | 3 |
Restitution. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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.This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Common Law Tradition. | ||
| CMPL 510 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| PUB2 504 | Sentencing in Canadian Law. | 3 |
Sentencing in Canadian Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Survey of principles of sentencing and correctional law in Canada. This course reviews general principles such as aims of punishment, matters of procedures and evidence, and review of sentences by appellate courts. A detailed examination of selected topics include participation of victims in sentencing, dangerous offenders, native offenders, homicide cases. | ||
| CMPL 511 | Social Diversity and Law. | 3 |
Social Diversity and Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 513 | Talmudic Law. | 3 |
Talmudic Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Historical sources of Talmudic law, methods of interpretation, selected topics, and relation to various secular legal traditions. | ||
| CMPL 641 | Theoretical Approaches to Law. | 3 |
Theoretical Approaches to Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to a variety of theoretical approaches to legal scholarship. | ||
International Business Law
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:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASPL 614 | Airline Business and Law. | 3 |
Airline Business and Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Interdisciplinary analysis of the legal issues confronting airlines in such areas as economics, finance, securities, bankruptcy, pricing, marketing, distribution, alliances, joint-ventures and competition. | ||
| ASPL 632 | Comparative Air Law. | 3 |
Comparative Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative approaches to air law. Selected problems of private law not codified by international conventions including product liability; government liability for certification and inspection of aircraft; ATC liability; aviation insurance; fleet financing; leasing. | ||
| CMPL 517 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| BUS2 500 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| BUS2 505 | Corporate Finance. | 3 |
Corporate Finance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced issues in business and corporate law. Principles underlying decisions about a corporation's capital structure. Distinctive aspects and rights of corporate securities, including common shares, preferred shares. | ||
| CMPL 536 | European Union Law 1. | 3 |
European Union Law 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community and current efforts to create a homogenous structure for commerce and competition in Europe. | ||
| CMPL 537 | European Union Law 2. | 3 |
European Union Law 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The provisions of the Treaty of Rome dealing with the regulation of domestic and international commerce by the Community authorities, with particular emphasis on articles 85 and 86. | ||
| CMPL 574 | Government Control of Business. | 3 |
Government Control of Business. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in government control and regulation of business with emphasis on competition law and policy. | ||
| ASPL 639 | Government Regulation of Space Activities. | 3 |
Government Regulation of Space Activities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. National public and private law and regulatory regimes governing space activities, particularly those that are carried out by private entities for commercial purposes. | ||
| BUS2 502 | Intellectual and Industrial Property. | 3 |
Intellectual and Industrial Property. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of private relationships involving inventive and creative activity through an analysis of various conceptions of intellectual property regimes, in the context of public governance of public space, as well as the interrelationship between international and national law. | ||
| CMPL 604 | International Business Law. | 3 |
International Business Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current topics in international business law. | ||
| CMPL 515 | International Carriage of Goods by Sea. | 3 |
International Carriage of Goods by Sea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A comparative study of private international maritime law. | ||
| CMPL 516 | International Development Law. | 3 |
International Development Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 546 | International Environmental Law and Politics. | 3 |
International Environmental Law and Politics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of institutions and processes for global environmental protection. Consideration of means for advancing international cooperation for environmental protection, focusing on international law. Analysis of obstacles to applying international law to environmental problems. Examination of a range of governance structures for environmental protection and the way in which they operate. | ||
| CMPL 553 | International Maritime Conventions. | 3 |
International Maritime Conventions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. International maritime conventions in respect of collisions, jurisdiction, limitation of liability, and their domestic interpretation, maritime liens and mortgages, marine insurance, and salvage. | ||
| CMPL 539 | International Taxation. | 3 |
International Taxation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Canadian tax treatment of subjects, including the export of goods and services, carrying on business in other countries, international employee transfers, international re-organizations, and international joint ventures and partnerships. | ||
| CMPL 543 | Law and Practice of International Trade. | 3 |
Law and Practice of International Trade. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The fundamental aspects of international law governing international trade, and governmental regulation of international trade in Canada and Canada's major trading partners. | ||
| ASPL 638 | Law of Space Applications. | 3 |
Law of Space Applications. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The legal implications of various space applications, such as telecommunications and the role therein of various international organizations; remote sensing by satellites; space stations; commercial and military uses of outer space. | ||
| BUS2 501 | Patent Theory and Policy. | 3 |
Patent Theory and Policy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination and critical assessment of the justifications of patent law; the tension between the public domain and private monopoly control; examination of international patent protection; international conventions touching on patent law, international trade instruments; examination of patents in relation to new technology: biotechnology, the Internet and business methods. | ||
| ASPL 636 | Private International Air Law. | 3 |
Private International Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sources of private international air law. Conflicts of laws. Unification of law of liability. Liability for damage on the surface, liability of the ATC and CNS/ATM providers. Rights in aircraft and their international recognition. | ||
| ASPL 633 | Public International Air Law. | 3 |
Public International Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sources of public international law relating to the air space and its aeronautical uses. International aviation organizations and their law-making functions. Legal responses to aviation terrorism. | ||
| CMPL 533 | Resolution of International Disputes. | 3 |
Resolution of International Disputes. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Conflict of jurisdictions and recognition of foreign judgments, as well as arbitration between parties to international contracts, with particular reference to international conventions. | ||
| BUS2 504 | Securities Regulation. | 3 |
Securities Regulation. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the structure of Canada's capital markets and a review of major features of securities regulation using the Quebec or Ontario scheme as background. An examination of the general regulatory framework for licensing of securities professionals, disclosure to investors and enforcement powers of regulators. | ||
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:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CMPL 500 | Indigenous Peoples and the State. | 3 |
Indigenous Peoples and the State. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current legal topics relating to Indigenous peoples, including the concept of Indigenous title, and constitutional aspects of contemporary land claims. Aspects of Canadian law relating to Indigenous peoples, their constitutional status, and hunting and fishing rights. | ||
| PUB2 501 | Advanced Criminal Law. | 3 |
Advanced Criminal Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Specific crimes and defenses, and problems in procedure, as a continuation of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Selected topics will be announced in advance. | ||
| PRV2 500 | Children and the Law. | 3 |
Children and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the law's recognition of, and responses to, children in Canadian private and public law, with reference to foreign and international law. Children's rights and state intervention in children's relationships with families and communities are explored, as are children as witnesses, parties and as young offenders. | ||
| CMPL 573 | Civil Liberties. | 3 |
Civil Liberties. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 575 | Discrimination and the Law. | 3 |
Discrimination and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 504 | Feminist Legal Theory. | 3 |
Feminist Legal Theory. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Feminist theory and its relevance and application to law, including feminist methodologies in law, the public versus private dichotomy, and changing conceptions of equality. | ||
| CMPL 603 | Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. | 3 |
Human Rights and Cultural Diversity. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Current topics in human rights and cultural diversity. | ||
| PUB2 502 | International Criminal Law. | 3 |
International Criminal Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 565 | International Humanitarian Law. | 3 |
International Humanitarian Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 571 | International Law of Human Rights. | 3 |
International Law of Human Rights. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. International protection of human rights, particularly by the United Nations, its specialized agencies, and the Council of Europe. | ||
| PUB2 500 | Law and Psychiatry. | 3 |
Law and Psychiatry. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 511 | Social Diversity and Law. | 3 |
Social Diversity and Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Regulation, Technology and Society
This concentration focuses on the comparative and interdisciplinary 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 biomedical sciences, the environment, the growth of computer networks, and the commercial exploitation of space.
Courses offered within this concentration may include:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CMPL 577 | Communications Law. | 3 |
Communications Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Regulation of common communication carriers and mass media in Canada, including legal developments initiated by foreign market competition, and the regulatory authority of the C.R.T.C. | ||
| CMPL 551 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 578 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 580 | Environment and the Law. | 3 |
Environment and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Environmental law, with emphasis on ecological, economic, political, and international dimensions. | ||
| CMPL 574 | Government Control of Business. | 3 |
Government Control of Business. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Selected topics in government control and regulation of business with emphasis on competition law and policy. | ||
| BUS2 502 | Intellectual and Industrial Property. | 3 |
Intellectual and Industrial Property. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of private relationships involving inventive and creative activity through an analysis of various conceptions of intellectual property regimes, in the context of public governance of public space, as well as the interrelationship between international and national law. | ||
| CMPL 546 | International Environmental Law and Politics. | 3 |
International Environmental Law and Politics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of institutions and processes for global environmental protection. Consideration of means for advancing international cooperation for environmental protection, focusing on international law. Analysis of obstacles to applying international law to environmental problems. Examination of a range of governance structures for environmental protection and the way in which they operate. | ||
| PRV4 545 | Land Use Planning. | 3 |
Land Use Planning. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of private and public control of land use and development, including: constitutional jurisdiction; provincial, regional and local planning; regulatory and discretionary tools (e.g., zoning by-laws, subdivision control, site-plan control), acquired rights; expropriation, land values and compensation, protection of sensitive areas (e.g. heritage property, agricultural land). | ||
| CMPL 642 | Law and Health Care. | 3 |
Law and Health Care. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The study of legal and ethical issues raised in medicine and healthcare with a particular focus upon the relationship between patient and healthcare professionals. | ||
| PUB2 500 | Law and Psychiatry. | 3 |
Law and Psychiatry. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 522 | Medical Liability. | 3 |
Medical Liability. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| CMPL 518 | Policies, Politics and Legislative Process. | 3 |
Policies, Politics and Legislative Process. Terms offered: Summer 2025 How law and politics shape public policy-making and implementation. The focus will be on how policy preferences and political decisions get ‘translated’ into legal instruments. The interaction of politics and law in the making of various public policies may be explored within a single jurisdiction or a particular policy may be examined across multiple jurisdictions. | ||
| CMPL 605 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
| CMPL 521 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
Air and Space Law
This field explores legal issues that arise from international civil aviation and new technologies in space. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the legal processes regulating worldwide aerospace activities.
Courses offered within this concentration may include:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASPL 613 | Government Regulation of Air Transport. | 3 |
Government Regulation of Air Transport. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Economic regulation of air transport and navigation, deregulation, liberalization, open skies. Economic and regulatory theories, competition, anti-trust regulation. Status, negotiation, and implementation of international agreements on air services. | ||
| ASPL 614 | Airline Business and Law. | 3 |
Airline Business and Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Interdisciplinary analysis of the legal issues confronting airlines in such areas as economics, finance, securities, bankruptcy, pricing, marketing, distribution, alliances, joint-ventures and competition. | ||
| ASPL 632 | Comparative Air Law. | 3 |
Comparative Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative approaches to air law. Selected problems of private law not codified by international conventions including product liability; government liability for certification and inspection of aircraft; ATC liability; aviation insurance; fleet financing; leasing. | ||
| ASPL 633 | Public International Air Law. | 3 |
Public International Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sources of public international law relating to the air space and its aeronautical uses. International aviation organizations and their law-making functions. Legal responses to aviation terrorism. | ||
| ASPL 636 | Private International Air Law. | 3 |
Private International Air Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Sources of private international air law. Conflicts of laws. Unification of law of liability. Liability for damage on the surface, liability of the ATC and CNS/ATM providers. Rights in aircraft and their international recognition. | ||
| ASPL 637 | Space Law: General Principles. | 3 |
Space Law: General Principles. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the role of international law in the regulation of outer space activities. | ||
| ASPL 638 | Law of Space Applications. | 3 |
Law of Space Applications. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The legal implications of various space applications, such as telecommunications and the role therein of various international organizations; remote sensing by satellites; space stations; commercial and military uses of outer space. | ||
| ASPL 639 | Government Regulation of Space Activities. | 3 |
Government Regulation of Space Activities. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. National public and private law and regulatory regimes governing space activities, particularly those that are carried out by private entities for commercial purposes. | ||
Available Programs
- Air and Space Law (D.C.L.)
- Air and Space Law (Gr. Cert.) (15 credits)
- Comparative Law (Gr. Cert.) (15 credits)
- Law (D.C.L.)
- Law (Non-Thesis) (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Non-Thesis): Air and Space Law (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Non-Thesis): Comparative Law (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Non-Thesis): Environment (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Thesis) (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Thesis): Air and Space Law (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Thesis): Bioethics (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Thesis): Comparative Law (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law (Thesis): Environment (LL.M.) (45 credits)
- Law: Comparative Law (D.C.L.)
Location
Faculty of Law
Graduate Programs in Law
New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street, Room 406
Montreal QC H3A 1W9
Canada
Telephone: 514-398-6635
Email: grad.law@mcgill.ca
Website: mcgill.ca/law/grad-studies
Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) – Colleen Sheppard