Law (B.C.L./J.D.) (105 credits)
Offered by: Law (Faculty of Law)
Degree: BCLJD
Program credit weight: 105
Program Requirements
At the Faculty of Law, 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 Juris Doctor (J.D.) - to candidates who have successfully completed 105 credits.
Students should consult the Faculty website for updates: http://www.mcgill.ca/law-studies/.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (47 credits)
First Year
The following 33 credits of courses may be taken only in the first year:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LAWG 100D1 | Contractual Obligations. | 3 |
Contractual Obligations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| LAWG 100D2 | Contractual Obligations. | 3 |
Contractual Obligations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See LAWG 100D1 for course description. | ||
| LAWG 101D1 | Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts. | 3 |
Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Integrated study of basic concepts of extracontractual obligations in the Civil and Common law. Fault and other bases for liability; protected interests; causation; reasons for exoneration; apportionment of liability; intersection of human rights and civil wrongs. | ||
| LAWG 101D2 | Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts. | 3 |
Extra-Contractual Obligations/Torts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See LAWG 101D1 for course description. | ||
| LAWG 102D1 | Criminal Justice. | 3 |
Criminal Justice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Basis, nature and functioning of criminal justice within and across legal orders, with a focus on Canadian criminal justice. Main determinants of crime and rationales for criminalizing certain conduct. Key substantive, procedural, evidentiary and sentencing aspects of the criminal law, and the social impact of criminal justice. | ||
| LAWG 102D2 | Criminal Justice. | 3 |
Criminal Justice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Basis, nature and functioning of criminal justice within and across legal orders, with a focus on Canadian criminal justice. Main determinants of crime and rationales for criminalizing certain conduct. Key substantive, procedural, evidentiary and sentencing aspects of the criminal law, and the social impact of criminal justice. | ||
| LAWG 103 | Indigenous Legal Traditions. | 3 |
Indigenous Legal Traditions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to Indigenous law in Canada by teaching, inter alia, the connections between Indigenous ways of being and knowing and Indigenous law, including how those connections have been damaged in colonial contexts, and efforts to revitalize them. Topics include: the worldviews and constitutional contexts of Indigenous legal traditions; and the colonial contexts which have shaped the contemporary realities of Indigenous laws and Indigenous legal education. | ||
| LAWG 110D1 | Integration Workshop. | 1.5 |
Integration Workshop. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to law and legal studies that complements the other first-year courses using transversal and integrative approaches. | ||
| LAWG 110D2 | Integration Workshop. | 1.5 |
Integration Workshop. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to law and legal studies that complements the other first-year courses using transversal and integrative approaches. | ||
| PUB2 101D1 | Constitutional Law. | 3 |
Constitutional Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PUB2 101D2 | Constitutional Law. | 3 |
Constitutional Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See PUB2 101D1 for course description. | ||
| PUB3 116 | Foundations. | 3 |
Foundations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Second Year
The following 13 credits of courses may be taken only in the second year:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LAWG 210 | Legal Ethics and Professionalism. | 3 |
Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course provides an overview of the ethical principles and rules that are relevant to one’s life as an expert in the law, including ethical requirements for the practice of law in Canada and abroad. The course is taught over the course of weekly meetings during the term, in addition to an intensive period during Focus Week. | ||
| LAWG 220D1 | Property. | 3 |
Property. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Integrated study of the foundations, principles and mechanisms of property law. Examination of common law, civil law and indigenous traditions in respect of property. Key relationships in respect of things and services as well as limitations on property rights. | ||
| LAWG 220D2 | Property. | 3 |
Property. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See LAWG 220D1 for description. | ||
| PROC 124 | Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure. | 4 |
Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Any Year
The following 1 credit course may be taken in any year after completing the first year:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PRAC 200 | Advocacy. | 1 |
Advocacy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Critical analysis of oral advocacy skills, including a range of settings and appellate advocacy. | ||
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
Civil Law Immersion Courses
3 credits from the following list of civil law courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS2 561 | Insurance. | 3 |
Insurance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Civil Law Tradition. | ||
| LAWG 506 | Advanced Civil Law Property. | 3 |
Advanced Civil Law Property. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course aims develop civil law reasoning and methodology through the study of certain concepts and constructs in civil law property.This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Civil Law Tradition | ||
| PROC 200 | Advanced Civil Law Obligations. | 3 |
Advanced Civil Law Obligations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Civil Law Tradition. | ||
| PRV1 549 | Contrats nommés/Nominate Contracts. | 3 |
Contrats nommés/Nominate Contracts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Une immersion dans la culture, épistémologie etpratique de la tradition juridique civiliste parl'étude du louage, y compris certains aspects dubail de logement, du contrat d’entreprise ou deservice et du cautionnement en droit québécois. / An immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the civil law tradition through the study of the contract of lease, including some aspects of residential leases, the contract of enterprise or for services, and the contract of suretyship in the law of Quebec. | ||
| PRV2 270 | Law of Persons. | 3 |
Law of Persons. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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.This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Civil Law Tradition. | ||
| PRV4 548 | Administration Property of Another and Trusts. | 3 |
Administration Property of Another and Trusts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Common Law Immersion Courses
3 credits from the following list of common law courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PRV3 200 | Advanced Common Law Obligations. | 3 |
Advanced Common Law Obligations. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. The study of unjust enrichment as a basis for remedies at common law, in equity and under statute and of its role 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. | ||
| PRV3 534 | Remedies. | 3 |
Remedies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of selected private law remedies available at common law, in equity and under statute. This course provides an opportunity for immersion in the culture, epistemology and practices of the Common Law Tradition | ||
| 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. | ||
| PRV4 549 | Equity and Trusts. | 3 |
Equity and Trusts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PRV5 582 | Advanced Torts. | 3 |
Advanced Torts. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Social Diversity, Human Rights and Indigenous Law Courses
Students must take at least 3 credits from the following courses:
| 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. | ||
| 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 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 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 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| IDFC 500 | Indigenous Field Studies. | 3 |
Indigenous Field Studies. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Intensive field course that focuses on First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures and worldviews, with particular emphasis on linkages to practice areas and integration across disciplinary silos. Attention is given to the effects of Canadian legal, health and social welfare policies on contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit societies. | ||
| LAWG 503 | Inter-American Human Rights. | 3 |
Inter-American Human Rights. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| LAWG 505 | Critical Engagements with Human Rights. | 3 |
Critical Engagements with Human Rights. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar examines the connections between the theory and practice of human rights. It explores theoretical, ethical and strategic issues related to human rights discourse, advocacy and activism, and critically examines fact finding, monitoring and reporting, litigation, grass roots mobilization and media engagement in advancing human rights. | ||
| LAWG 507 | Critical Race Theory Advanced Seminar. | 3 |
Critical Race Theory Advanced Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will explore the evolving contours of a theoretical approach to law that has developed both a substantive challenge to legal liberalism and critical legal studies, as well as an alternative literary style built on the use of narrative. | ||
| LAWG 508D1 | Indigenous Constitutionalism. | 3 |
Indigenous Constitutionalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of Anishinaabe legality, constitutionalism, and law. Logic and structure through elder’s teachings, stories, material culture, and the works of myriad Indigenous writers and orators, including one view of Anishinaabe constitutionalism, what kinds of legal processes and institutions it supports, what kind of law these generate, and how that body of law changes through time and across places. Contemporary Indigenous law revitalization projects in Canada. How colonialism structures Indigenous-settler relationships on Turtle Island, complicating prospects for Indigenous constitutional and legal revitalization. | ||
| LAWG 508D2 | Indigenous Constitutionalism. | 3 |
Indigenous Constitutionalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See LAWG 508D1 for description. | ||
| LAWG 509 | Indigenous Law Revitalization. | 3 |
Indigenous Law Revitalization. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the prospect of Indigenous law revitalization in Canada today, including why it is that discussions about contemporary Indigenous law necessarily begin with revitalization, distinct analytical frameworks within which Indigenous law could be revitalized, specific Indigenous law revitalization issues, such as power, fundamentalism, and social transformation. Principles of the sharing circle. | ||
| LAWG 562 | Regulating Artificial Intelligence. | 3 |
Regulating Artificial Intelligence. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Technology law of how to regulate AI algorithms. How technological innovation produces social change: human measurability, human-robot interaction, inequality, discrimination, surveillance, liability, and impact assessments. | ||
| LAWG 580 | Women and Constitutions. | 3 |
Women and Constitutions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of how constitutions shape women's rights. Taking a comparative constitutional law approach, exploration of constitutional strategies for promoting gender equality, focusing on selected constitutional contexts including Canada, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Analyzing the debates that shape constitutional jurisprudence. Topics include constitutional rights in the areas of social diversity, equality, the family and participatory constitution-making. Exploring significant developments in the field of feminist constitutionalism, how constitutional law is both a powerful force in the construction of women’s subordination and a site of feminist struggle. | ||
| LAWG 582 | Disability Law and Policy. | 3 |
Disability Law and Policy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to fundamental issues in disability law and policy, exploring who is the ‘disabled subject’, what is disability, and what expectations of “normalcy” are implicit in approaching some questions in the field. Critical examination of legal concepts used in disability law and exploration of the difficulties that people with disabilities face in relation to access to justice, education and healthcare, as well as other controversial issues. Exploration of the evolving landscape of disability law and the challenges it poses to policy makers. | ||
| LEEL 369 | Labour Law. | 3 |
Labour Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Canadian labour law including collective bargaining, arbitration and industrial relations generally. Emphasis on the Canada Labour Code, the Quebec Labour Code and related statutes. | ||
| LEEL 582 | Law and Poverty. | 3 |
Law and Poverty. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PUB2 105 | Public International Law. | 3 |
Public International Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| PUB2 503 | Comparative Federalism. | 3 |
Comparative Federalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Institutional design of federal states, or of supra-national arrangements, in comparative perspective. Rationale for federal constitutions; confederal vs. federal organization; symmetric vs. asymmetric federations; allocation of powers; the subsidiarity principle; accession to and secession from the federation; the place of popular sovereignty; federalism within central legislative or executive institutions. | ||
| PUB2 507 | Prison Law and Policy | 3 |
Prison Law and Policy Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the laws, policies, and norms that govern institutions and individuals within Canada’s federal penitentiary system, inviting reflection through the lenses of both reform and abolition. This includes attention to issues like security classification, discipline, solitary confinement, transfers, voting rights, prison labour, privacy, motherhood, Indigenous approaches within institutions, and conditional release; also to forms of redress such as the grievance system, judicial review, and habeas corpus. | ||
| PUB2 551 | Immigration and Refugee Law. | 3 |
Immigration and Refugee Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| PUB3 515 | 3 | |
Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. | ||
Principles of Canadian Administrative Law
3 credits from the following courses:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS1 532 | Bankruptcy and Insolvency. | 3 |
Bankruptcy and Insolvency. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Federal bankruptcy law, including bankruptcy petitions, an individual's rights to a discharge, the nature of claims provable in bankruptcy, the rejection and assumption of executory contracts, the stay of proceedings and the avoidance powers of trustees and receiverships and workouts as alternatives to bankruptcy proceedings. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 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 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. | ||
| LAWG 523 | Tax Practice Seminar. | 3 |
Tax Practice Seminar. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of tax practice from a theoretical and practical perspective in five experiential modules featuring local practitioners, including tax planning for families, analysis of application of general anti-avoidance rules to planned transactions, analysis of tax aspects of new technologies. | ||
| LAWG 561 | Privacy Law. | 3 |
Privacy Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Overview of the rapidly-growing area of information privacy law with a focus on the digital environment, including domestic and international regulations, case law, legislation, and recent public policy developments pertaining to the collection, storage, and dissemination of personal information. Three kinds of relationships: among individuals, between individuals and companies, and between individuals and the State. | ||
| LAWG 581 | Health Care Delivery and the Law. | 3 |
Health Care Delivery and the Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The study of legal issues raised in medicine and healthcare with a particular focus upon the relationship between patient and healthcare professionals. | ||
| LAWG 583 | Public Health Law and Policy. | 3 |
Public Health Law and Policy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Definition and foundations of public health law. Introduction to public health methods regarding risk assessment, causation and the precautionary principle, and their interaction with legal norms. Examination of the powers and duties of the state to protect population health as well as the limits to state interventions pursuing the common good. Consideration of tools available to public health policy-makers, including nudging, regulation, prohibition, and litigation. Contemplation of the effectiveness of the criminal law and of private law in furthering public health goals. Analysis of specific case studies in public health law (e.g., infectious disease control, pandemic management, nutrition, tobacco, cannabis). | ||
| LEEL 369 | Labour Law. | 3 |
Labour Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Canadian labour law including collective bargaining, arbitration and industrial relations generally. Emphasis on the Canada Labour Code, the Quebec Labour Code and related statutes. | ||
| LEEL 570 | Employment Law. | 3 |
Employment Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| LEEL 582 | Law and Poverty. | 3 |
Law and Poverty. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
| 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). | ||
| PRV5 483 | Consumer Law. | 3 |
Consumer Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A comparative study of civil and common law and consumer protection law in Quebec and in Canada. | ||
| PUB2 400 | The Administrative Process. | 3 |
The Administrative Process. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The administrative process and the legal structure of administrative agencies. Statutory interpretation, delegated legislation, policy rules, administrative discretion, administrative procedures and problems of institutional design will be considered in the context of some contemporary administrative agencies. | ||
| PUB2 401 | Judicial Review of Administrative Action. | 3 |
Judicial Review of Administrative Action. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The control of administrative decision-makers. Problems of delegation, formal jurisdiction, natural justice and errors of fact and law. Judicial review remedies; appeals; reconsideration; tort and contractual liability of administrative agencies; privative clauses; public inquiries; ombudsman schemes. | ||
| 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. | ||
| PUB2 507 | Prison Law and Policy | 3 |
Prison Law and Policy Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the laws, policies, and norms that govern institutions and individuals within Canada’s federal penitentiary system, inviting reflection through the lenses of both reform and abolition. This includes attention to issues like security classification, discipline, solitary confinement, transfers, voting rights, prison labour, privacy, motherhood, Indigenous approaches within institutions, and conditional release; also to forms of redress such as the grievance system, judicial review, and habeas corpus. | ||
| PUB2 515 | Tax Policy. | 3 |
Tax Policy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Public aspects of tax legislation; federal-provincial agreements; tax sharing and equalization; municipal aspects; social problems in tax policy. Negative tax and re-distribution of resources. | ||
| PUB2 551 | Immigration and Refugee Law. | 3 |
Immigration and Refugee Law. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. 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. | ||
Elective Courses (46 credits)
Students must take 46 other elective courses offered within the Faculty or approved as credit equivalences in order to complete the 105-credit degree requirement.
Minimum Writing Requirement
All students are required to submit at least one research paper. This requirement may be satisfied by:
- writing an essay in a course in which the essay constitutes no less than 75% of the final grade;
- writing a term essay under independent supervision, for credit, within the Faculty of Law;
- writing an article, note, or comment of equivalent substance that is published or accepted for publication in the McGill Law Journal and approved by the Faculty Adviser to that publication.
Papers written jointly do not satisfy this requirement.