Upper Year Courses by Subject Area

Note: Not all courses listed are offered every year. 

Updated July, 2023

Upper Year Courses by Subject Area

 Subject Area

Courses

Clinic/Externship/Practicum

Aboriginal law

Aboriginal Law and Policy

Discerning Law in the Fur Trade

Indigenous Peoples and the Constitution of Canada

Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Criminal Justice

Indigenous Legal Traditions and the Imperial Response

Indigenous Law in Context: Intensive

Indigenous People and Canadian Courts: Advocacy, Evidentiary and Ethical Issues

Intensive Course: Indigenous Peoples and Comparative Constitutional and International Law: New Zealand, Canada and the USA

Indigenous Peoples and Economic Development 

Issues in Aboriginal Law and Policy

Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Aboriginal Law

Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto

Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Criminal Justice Practicum

Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law Practicum

Ontario Human Rights Commission: Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples 

Academic research and writing

Academic Scholarship Seminar

Advanced Legal Research, Analysis and Writing

Directed Research

SUYRP (in eligible seminars)

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Academic Research

 

Administrative and regulatory law

Administrative Law

Advanced Public Law: The Regulation of Decision-Makers

Canadian Migration Law

Canadian Energy Law and Policy

Community Planning

Competition Policy

Corporations, Individuals & the State

Environmental Law

Fish, Forests and Fuel: Natural Resources Law in Canada

Housing Law and Policy

International Trade Regulation

Law and Policy of Public-Private Partnerships

Private Pensions, Public Responsibilities

Regulating Energy: Challenges and Opportunities (previously named Rethinking Energy Regulation)

Securities Regulation

Telecommunications and Internet

The Administrative State in Practice

See also courses listed under Environmental Law, Health Law, Labour Law

Advocates for Injured Workers

Advancing the Right to Housing 

City of Toronto Municipal Gov’t Lawyering

DLS – Housing Law Clinic

DLS – Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic

DLS – University Affairs Clinic

 

Business law

Art of the Deal

Advanced Corporate Law & Securities Regulation

Bankruptcy Law

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law

Business Organizations

Canadian Income Tax Law

Contested Corporate Transactions

Corporate Income Tax

Corporate Transactions

Corporations, Individuals, and the State 

Entertainment Law

Financial Crimes and Corporate Compliance

Finance, Business and Accounting in the Law

Financing the Small Technology Firm

Franchise and Distribution Law

From Blueprints to Buildings: Legal Issues in the Construction Industry

Investment and Growth in Emerging Markets

Law of International Business and Financial Transactions

Media and Defamation

Real Estate Law

Securities Law in the Adversarial Setting

Securities Litigation: The Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law 

Securities Regulation

Secured Transactions

Shareholder Activism

Sports Law

Connect Legal

Investor Protection Clinic 

Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation Externship

Not-for-Profit Board Governance Clinic 

 

Civil litigation and dispute resolution

Advanced Advocacy: Problems and Techniques

Advanced Civil Procedure

Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Legal Environment

Class Actions Law and Practice

Class Actions Law

Class Actions Practice

Evidence

Negotiation

Perspectives on Civil Litigation, Procedure and Professionalism

Scientific Evidence: Its Use and Abuse

Trial Advocacy

 Pro Bono Ontario Litigation Externship

Constitutional law

 

Advanced Constitutional Law: Security and Remedial Issues

Comparative Constitutional Law 

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics

Constitutional Advocacy

Constitutional Law of the US

Foreign Affairs and the Canadian Constitution 

Freedom of Expression and the Press

Intensive Course: American Constitutional Development

Social Media and the Constitution 

See also courses listed under Aboriginal law

David Asper Centre

Criminal law and procedure

Animals and the Law

Anti-Corruption Law and Policy 

Advanced Criminal Procedure

Crime & Punishment

Criminal Procedure

Evidence

Financial Crimes and Corporate Compliance

Foundations of the Criminal Law

Homicide

Mentally Disordered Accused

Scientific Evidence: Its Use and Abuse

Sentencing and Penal Policy

The Criminal Process

Wrongful Convictions

Youth Criminal Justice

Appellate Criminal Litigation

DLS – Criminal Law Clinic

Innocence Canada Externship

Environmental law and natural resources

Environmental Law

Canadian Energy Law and Policy 

Climate Change Law

Fish, Forests and Fuel: Natural Resources Law in Canada

International Environmental Law

Renewable Energy Policy

Environmental Law Practicum

Family law and children

Advanced Family Law: Resolving the Family Law Case

Children and Families

Children, Youth and the Law

Education Law

Family Law

Restructuring Work and Care: Family, State and Market in Times of Crisis

Youth and the Law

Youth, Children and the Law: Age-based Legal Analysis

Youth Criminal Justice

DLS – Family Law Clinic

Restructuring Work and Care: Family, State and Market in Times of Crisis (Research Capstone)

Health law

Elder Law

Health Law and Bioethics

International Human Rights Law & Global Health: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice 

Mental Health and the Law

Mentally Disordered Accused

Pharmaceutical Law and Governance

Public Health Law in Canada

Reproductive and Sexual Health Law

Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Health Law, Ethics and Policy

 Health Justice Program Clinical Placement

Intellectual property and innovation law

Competition Law and IP

Copyright Law

Copyright Law in the Making

Copyright Policy: Grand Oral (formerly Copyright Policy in the Making) 

Copyright, Trademark and Patent

Data Governance

Digital Content and the Innovative Economy

Digital Media Distribution

Entertainment Law

Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Intellectual Property: Copyright, Trademark and Patent

Intensive Course: The Global Regulation of the Internet

Introduction to Cybersecurity Law

Introduction to Intellectual Property Law 

Law and Policy of Biotechnology

Looking Ahead: The Blurred Lines of Technology, Body, and Mind

Patent & Trade Secrets Law

Patent Law for the Life Sciences

Privacy Problems

Topics in Copyright Law and Copyright Theory

Workshop: Innovation Law and Policy

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Externship

Media Law– Investigative Journalism Bureau/Toronto Star 

Structural Genomics Consortium Externship

International law

 

Admiralty Law

Canadian Migration Law

Citizenship: Inside and Out

Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics

Comparative Contracts

Comparative Health Systems Law and Policy

Comparative Law Theory

Constitutional Law of the US

Crime and Punishment

Intensive Course: Human Trafficking: A Labor Approach 

International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration

International Courts and Tribunals

International Criminal Law

International Environmental Law

International Human Rights Law

International Investment Law

International Law Theory and the Rule of Law

International Taxation

International Trade Regulation

Introduction to Islamic Law

Israel/Palestine and the Law

Law of International Business and Financial Transactions

New Technologies and International Law

Public International Law

Private International Law

Refugee Law

Ten Cases that Changed the World

See also courses listed under:
Law and development

DLS – Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic

International Human Rights Clinic

 

Judges and courts

Appeals: Principles and Practice 

Capstone: The Role of the Judge

Intensive Course: Good Judgment

Judicial Decision-Making

Legal Devices

Statutes and Statutory Interpretation

The Supreme Court of Canada: The Search for Justice

Statutes Practicum: Legislative Assembly, Standing Committee on Regulations & Private Bills

Labour law

Advanced Labour & Employment Law

Advanced Labour: Bargaining Rights

Advanced Topics in Labour and Employment Law

Beyond the Standard Labour Law Model – Construction, Film, the Gig Economy, and Beyond

Intensive Course: Human Trafficking: A Labor Approach 

Public Sector Labour Law

The Law of Work (formerly Labour and Employment Law)

Workshop: Labour Law Writers Workshop

 DLS Clinic - Employment Law & Academic Appeals Clinic 

Law and development

Investment and Growth in Emerging Markets

Law, Institutions and Development

 

Legal ethics and professionalism

Ethical Issues in Alternative Dispute Resolution

Ethics in the Business Law Setting

History of the Anglo-American Legal Professions

Legal Ethics / Legal Ethics Intensive

 

Legal theory / interdisciplinary legal studies

Canadian Legal History

Comparative Law Theory

Economic Analysis of Law

Feminist Theory: Challenges to Legal and Political Thought

Foundations of Legal Theory

Hegel's Legal Philosophy

History of the Common Law

John Rawls' Theory of Justice: An Introduction 

Kant's Philosophy of Law

Law and Film

Law and Literature

Law and Revolution

Law, Religion and Democracy

Legal Archaeology

Persons and Bodies

Perspectives on Law

Religion and the Liberal State

The Law and the Psyche

The Politics of Legal Space

Theory of the Private Law

Topics in Contract Law and Contract Theory

Transnational Legal Theory

Workshop: Critical Analysis of Law

Workshop: Law and Economics

Workshop: Legal History

 

Private law

Admiralty Law

Advanced Contracts: the Law of Contractual Interpretation

Advanced Torts

Current Problems in Contract Law

Economic Torts

Principle and Policy in Contract Law

Private International Law

Remedies

Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age

Theory of the Private Law

Topics in Contract Law and Contract Theory

Tort Law in Practice  

Trusts

Wills and Estate Planning

 

Social justice and equality

Anti-Discrimination Law

Critical Race Theory and the Law

Discrimination Law: Charter/Code Comparisons

Exploring the Intersections of Law and Social Work

Gender Equality in Transnational Legal Perspective

Human Rights and Their Critics

Intensive Course: Queer Litigation: Race, Place and Transnational Human Rights

Intensive Course: Human Trafficking: A Labor Approach 

Intensive Course: The Color Line and the Law: Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk

Linguistic Diversity and the Law

Litigation and Social Change

Refugee Law

Reproductive and Sexual Health Law

Ten Cases that Changed the World

Transnational Business and Human Rights

Women, Violence and the Law

Barbra Schlifer Clinic

Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) Externship

Community Justice Collective Externship

Ontario Human Rights Commission: Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples 

 

Taxation law

Canadian Income Tax Law

Corporate Tax

International Taxation

International Taxation: US Tax Law for Canadian Lawyers

Tax Disputes and Litigation

Tax Law & Policy Workshop

Wills and Estate Planning

 

Law-related skills

Advanced Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing

Finance and Accounting in Business Law

Mediation

Negotiation