LL.M. Program

Graduate Courses

Required Courses

Law 9001 Approaches to Legal Scholarship

The purpose of this course, together with its companion course, Guided Study and Research Methodology (Law 9002), is to equip LL.M. students with the tools required to prepare a graduate thesis and to assist LL.M. students in their development as legal scholars.

This course will expose students to a wide array of prevailing schools of legal theory, with the goal of helping students situate their graduate research within one or more of those prevailing schools of thought. (Half course - 3 credits)

Law 9002 Guided Study and Research Methodology

The purpose of this course, together with its companion course, Approaches to Legal Scholarship (Law 9001), is to equip LL.M. students with the tools required to prepare a graduate thesis and to assist LL.M. students in their development as legal scholars. Specifically, this course will help students (a) define the questions to be answered through their theses, and (b) examine research methodologies that assist scholars working in particular areas of law or within specific theoretical frameworks.

The overall goal of this course is to familiarize students with the process of graduate-level legal research, and to allow students to examine the impact of research methodology upon legal theory and scholarship. A secondary goal of this course is to provide LL.M. students with a forum to discuss their ongoing research. (Half course - 3 credits)

Law 9003 Graduate Colloquium
This seminar course builds on the skills developed in Approaches to Legal Scholarship (Law 9001) and Guided Study and Research Methodology (Law 9002). Each LL.M. student will present to the colloquium his or her thesis proposal and a draft chapter from the thesis.

In addition to furthering the development of each student's thesis, this course will emphasize skills required in an oral presentation, be it in a classroom or conference setting. (Half Course - 3 credits)

Elective Course

Students are required to complete a fourth course, chosen by the student, in consultation with (and subject to the final approval of) his or her faculty advisor/thesis supervisor, from among the following:

from amongst the graduate offerings in other departments and faculties on campus (limit of one);
an independent study with a professor in the Faculty of Law; or
enrolling at the graduate level in a course offered at the JD level in the Faculty of Law (a graduate student enrolled in a graduate course will have different course requirements than those that apply to the JD course).

The following is a partial list of graduate courses offered at Western Law. An attempt is made by the Faculty to offer all of these courses annually.

9330 Advanced Constitutional Law
9540 Advanced Corporate Law
9360 Advanced Criminal Law
9600 Advanced Intellectual Property
9645 Advanced Labour Law
9610 Advanced Patent Law
9700 Arbitration Law and Procedure
9505 Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
9523 Biotechnology Law
9340 Canadian Human Rights Law
9410 Children's Law
9510 Commercial law
9627 Comparative Copyright Law
9550 Competition Law
9515 Corporate Reorganization
9375 Criminal Procedure
9561 Directed Research
9650 Employment Law
9305 Environmental Law
9675 Estate Planning
9215 Evidence
9310 Healthcare Law and Policy
9425 Immigration and Refugee Law
9620 Information Law
9565 Insurance Law
9625 Intellectual Property
9640 International Business Transactions
9630 International Protection of Intellectual Property
9435 International Tax
9655 Labour Law
9315 Law and Social Welfare
9320 Municipal Law
9225 Public International Law
9560 Securities Regulation
9380 Sentencing
9865 ST: Advanced Copyright Law
9905 ST: Tory's LLP Business and Law
9895 ST: Urban Law
9230 Trusts

Add/Drop

For the Fall Term, the first teaching week of term
For the Winter Term:
- For courses with classroom instruction during the month of January, the first teaching week of January
- For courses with classroom instruction commencing in the month of February, add/drop will close at the end of the 6th week of the Winter Term (generally the 2nd week of February).

Should a student be taking a graduate course in the Faculty of Law during the Summer Term, the provisions on Add/Drop provided by the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will apply, which are as follows:

Last Day to Add: One month from the official beginning of the term in which the course begins

Last Day to Drop: Two months from the beginning of term in which the course begins.

See: School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website

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