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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, FACULTY OF LAW

Graduate Program2008-2009

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I am extremely honoured to be Dean of this magnificent lawschool at such an important time both in our history and in thehistory of law and legal education.

Quite simply, I believe our law school offers the best legal educationin this country, and one of the very best in the world. Confirmation ofthat view came recently in an independent review led by two of themost distinguished legal academics in North America. They said:“What was [20 years ago] an excellent national law school has nowbecome excellent by international standards… Alone amongCanada’s law schools, we believe that the University of TorontoFaculty of Law has the potential to emerge as…a true peer of thevery best law schools in the world.”

As Dean, I am committed to ensuring that this great Canadian lawschool continues to offer one of the world’s great legal educationsand that we are at the forefront of the pressing debates and issuesof our time. This means that we must be prepared to look outwardand to respond to the new realities of our global society. The techno-logical, social, and political forces that have changed our world overthe past twenty-five years have had a dramatic impact on the lawand legal education. And in the next 25 years, even more changeswill occur. In such a rapidly evolving environment, a commitment toconstant self-reflection and to embracing change is vital to ensurethat we can deliver an outstanding legal education.

This process of reflection and renewal has recently led to a numberof very important initiatives. We are building vibrant collaborationswith some of the finest law schools all over the world – collabora-tions that will include learning and travel opportunities for stu-dents, and that will encourage even greater numbers of Canadianand international students students to pursue graduate work at U of T. We are also creating cutting-edge interdisciplinary programslike our combined degree in law and literature as well as broadeningour expertise in important areas like law and religion, the environ-ment, and Islamic Law. Very recently, we also approved the creationof a new centre devoted to professionalism, ethics and public service. These are just a few of the many ways that our faculty is constantly striving to better itself and to serve as a critical globalinstitution for thought, study and social engagement. As incomingstudents in this great faculty, you too will play a vital part in thatprocess.

I look forward to welcoming you to our special community in theyears to come.

MAYO MORAN, DEANUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Law

FROM THE DEAN


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WELCOME TO A GREAT UNIVERSITY WITHIN A GREAT CITY

THE FACULTY’S SPECIAL SETTINGThe Faculty of Law is housed in two historic buildings,Flavelle House and Falconer Hall. Both buildings were formerly private homes, dating from the early 1900s,and offer students an architecturally stimulating set-ting for their studies. The Bora Laskin Library is a morerecent addition to Flavelle House.

In the past few years there have been a number ofclassroom renovations to provide multimedia capabil-ities including global communications and real-timetelecommunications, bringing students in contactwith legal experts, faculty, and other students fromaround the world.

At the same time, care has been taken to preserve thearchitectural beauty of the original buildings.The class-rooms include a turn-of-the-century solarium, multi-media lecture hall, a moot court, as well as severallarge lecture rooms and intimate seminar rooms. Inrecent years, the faculty has unveiled a number ofnewly renovated rooms, including a second largesolarium, the Rowell Room, in Flavelle House thatserves as a meeting place for the entire law schoolcommunity.

THE BORA LASKIN LAWLIBRARYThe Bora Laskin Law Library, named after one of thefaculty’s finest scholars and the former Chief Justice

of the Supreme Court of Canada (1973-1984), is anoutstanding resource for the faculty’s students andprofessors. It contains over 260,000 volumes and pri-mary legal materials from the major common lawcountries such as Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Thelibrary subscribes to over 700 scholarly legal journals.Study space occupies three floors and includes acomputer lab, and Internet connectivity. A team of sixfull-time librarians is available in the library.

THE U OF T CAMPUSWithin the broader university, the Faculty of Law is located on the University of Toronto’s main (St.George) campus and is close to all amenities. It frontson Queen’s Park, a peaceful and well-treed greenspace in the heart of the city. Directly behind the fac-ulty runs Philospher’s Walk, providing students with arelaxing location to read or stroll. Just across thestreet to the south is Hart House, the recreational andcultural centre of campus, and one of the many exam-ples of outstanding collegiate gothic architecture at U of T. Hart House contains a cafeteria and restaurant,athletic facilities and a pool, as well as an abundanceof quiet study space. The bookstore and the AthleticCentre are a short walk away from the law school, as isRobarts Library, the fifth largest university library inNorth America. Law students also benefit from thefaculty’s central location near the many shops, restau-rants and theatres of Bloor Street (just half a block tothe north).

The capital of Ontario and at the

heart of Canada’s legal and financial

communities, Toronto is also a thriving

cultural centre.

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Toronto is Canada’s largest city, and is the vibrant and highly multicultural home of two and a half millionpeople, with another two million people in the immediate surrounding area. The capital of Ontario and atthe heart of Canada’s legal and financial communities, Toronto is also a thriving cultural centre. The city ishome to the National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company, extensive live theatre and concerts ofall kinds. In addition, Toronto boasts the renowned Ontario Science Centre, the Metro Toronto Zoo, the RoyalOntario Museum (located next door to the law school), the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as the CN Tower –the tallest freestanding structure in the world – Ontario Place, Air Canada Centre, and the SkyDome.

Toronto has many superb retail and book stores in which to browse and over 6,000 restaurants to suit every taste and price range. For sports fans there is NHL hockey played by the Maple Leafs, Major LeagueBaseball’s Blue Jays, basketball’s Raptors of the NBA, and football’s Argonauts of the CFL. Recreational oppor-tunities abound in Toronto’s many parks and ravines and along its numerous walking trails and bike paths.

One of the best transportation systems in North America (with both bus and subway stops just steps fromthe law school) makes it easy to move around Toronto and explore its rich variety of neighbourhoods suchas Chinatown, Kensington, the Danforth, and Little Italy.

The law school’s faculty: student ratio is 1:10 –

one of the very best in North America.

“Studying at the U of T Faculty of

Law was mind-opening. I learned

different approaches to law that

have given me a deeper under-

standing of the law in general as

well as the areas I was particularly

interested in. The LLM program is

truly an international community,

and all of the people I met during

my stay – faculty members, fellow

students, and staff – made me feel

at home.”

Susanne Muck(Germany), LLM 2006

TORONTO: A GREAT PLACE TO STUDY AND LIVE


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The University of Toronto, Faculty of Law is one of the old-est and most prestigious law schools in Canada. In recentyears the faculty has taken a lead role in international lawand policy by developing a concrete and comprehensiveresponse to the challenges of globalization.

Our progress in this area is manifest in a number of differ-ent dimensions: the recruitment of an intellectuallydiverse faculty, the Distinguished Visiting Faculty Program,the expansion of the International Human Rights Program,the augmentation of international courses and internation-al and comparative perspectives into existing courses,increased efforts at recruitment of international studentsespecially those studying for graduate law degrees, andvarious international internships. The faculty’s desire torespond creatively and imaginatively to the challenges ofinternationalization is ongoing, as is its commitment to cul-tural and intellectual diversity.

STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLDThe strength and diversity of the faculty is complemented

by a student body with a unique and varied mix of racial,

cultural, national, and socio-economic backgrounds, expe-

riences, intellectual interests and political commitments.

Graduate students coming to the Faculty of Law at U of T

will join a stimulating community of fellow scholars who

come from across Canada, as well as from Europe, South

America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the South Pacific.

Students study for the LLM degree or the SJD degree in a

range of areas and most return home to practice or teach

in a number of different settings once their program

requirements are completed.

The relatively small size of our student body, combined

with the diversity of background, age, experience and

AN INTERNATIONAL LAW SCHOOLWhile the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is the premier Canadian law

school, its reach extends well beyond Canada’s borders and creates opportunities

for graduates throughout the world. Whether you are interested in advocating for

human rights in Africa or working at a major law firm in New York City, an education

from the U of T Faculty of Law will provide you with the background and skills

necessary to excel in a wide range of exciting careers following graduation.

Each year the U of T Faculty of Law

welcomes new graduate students

from countries around the world. In

2006/07, 60 new students joined our

LLM program and 12 doctoral

students joined the SJD program

from countries including Brazil,

Greece, China and India.

“The U of T Faculty of Law offers an interesting and broad range of courses,which are enriched by workshops, colloquia and intensive courses taught by distinguished visiting professors. This creates an exciting intellectual atmosphere,with first-class international scholars.”

Dean Mayo Moran




“Toronto takes its name fromthe meeting of rivers. TheFaculty of Law at the Universityof Toronto embodies a similarspirit. Whether it is social jus-tice, legal theory, internationalhuman rights or law and eco-nomics, these intellectual cur-rents bring together a lively,engaged and diverse group ofstudents and teachers to thefaculty.”

Professor Lorne Sossin

ambition affords unique opportunities for theexchange of ideas among students, and between stu-dents and faculty, and helps to foster a sense of com-munity among the students, faculty and staff. Ours is acommunity that is institutionally committed to intel-lectual openness, collegiality, and reason, and wherestudents are constantly challenged by new ideas andexperiences.

INTELLECTUALLY DIVERSEFACULTYWith more than 50 full-time faculty members andapproximately 20 distinguished visiting scholars eachyear from around the world, the graduate progam atthe U of T Faculty of Law is able to draw on a rich arrayof intellectual resources and offer an unparalleledlearning opportunity. The faculty’s scholars enjoy aninternational reputation for research excellence inareas ranging across aboriginal law, law and technolo-gy, health law and policy, law and development,Islamic law, international human rights, environmentallaw, law and philosophy, law and economics, publiclaw and human rights. Their work addresses many ofthe most important contemporary questions anddilemmas of law at the most foundational level. Themeaningful contributions to these debates made byfaculty scholars result from their demonstrated com-mitment to invoking different inter-disciplinary per-spectives – one third of the members of the faculty arecross-appointed to one or more of 14 faculties, depart-ments and centres at the university, including politicalscience, economics, sociology, management, criminolo-gy, philosophy, industrial relations and medicine.Moreover, the faculty is a central and contributing participant in a community of leading internationalscholars concerned with law. Two years ago, the facultyrecruited two Islamic law scholars, making the U of Tlaw school one of the only faculties in Canada with ademonstrated commitment to this area of scholarship.

The success of the faculty’s ideas in shaping andinforming contemporary debate is demonstrated bythe number of journals that have published our facul-ty’s work, by the leading national and internationalpublishers who have published faculty books, and bythe number of prestigious prizes and fellowshipsearned, including several Killam awards, sevenConnaught awards, two Molson prizes and a FulbrightNew Century Scholarship. A further ten of our scholarsare members of the Royal Society of Canada, includinga Sir John William Dawson medalist, five have beenappointed University Professor (the highest rank theUniversity can confer on one of its members) andmany enjoy great success in external research fundingcompetitions. Our faculty have won numerous bookprizes, including most recently the 2002 Harold InnisPrize for best English Language Book in the Humanitiesand Social Sciences for Indigenous Difference and theConstitution of Canada (Prof. Patrick Macklem); theCanadian Political Science Association’s 2002 DonaldSmiley Prize for the same book recognizing it as thebest book relating to the study of government andpolitics in Canada; the Purvis Award from theCanadian Economics Association for The Law andEconomics of Canadian Competition Policy (professorsMichael Trebilcock and Ed Iacobucci along with alum-nus Paul Collins); and the J.W. Dafoe Prize for BrianDickson: A Judge’s Journey (Prof. Kent Roach with former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Justice RobertSharpe). At all levels of the faculty from the most junior to the most senior colleagues – there is astrong and shared commitment to the scholarlyenterprise.

More than great scholarship, our faculty members arealso defined by their passionate commitment to theeducational mission of the law school, and to incorpo-rating their scholarship into their teaching, at both theJ.D. and graduate levels.

Each year, approximately 20 distinguished

visiting scholars, jurists and policy-makers

bring their unrivalled range of expertise to the

law school.


DISTINGUISHED VISITING FACULTYA defining feature of the graduate program that hasbrought great distinction to our law school is the short-term Distinguished Visiting Faculty Program, which wel-comes some of the world’s outstanding legal scholarsand law teachers to the faculty for several weeks at thebeginning of each term.

Each year, approximately 20 distinguished visiting schol-ars, jurists and policy-makers bring their unrivalled rangeof expertise to the law school. During this period, stu-dents and faculty engage with our visitors in livelydebate and discussion in classes, workshops, and in infor-mal settings.

Since the inception of the program, the faculty has host-ed more than 100 visitors from around the globe. Inrecent years, distinguished visitors have included JusticeAharon Barak (President of the Supreme Court of Israel);former Justice Dieter Grimm (German ConstitutionalCourt); Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy (U.N. SpecialRapporteur on Violence Against Women); and ProfessorYash Ghai (Chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review)among others.

INTENSIVE VISITORS 2006-2007• Anaya, James (University of Arizona)

• Barak, Aaron (Supreme Court of Israel)

• Barak-Erez, Daphne (Tel-Aviv University,

Faculty of Law)

• Goldsmith, Andrew (Flinders University)

• Grimm, Dieter (Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin)

• Hacker, Jacob (Yale Law School)

• Hathaway, Oona (Yale Law School)

• Hyde, Alan (Rutgers University School of Law)

• Ho, Betty (Tsinghua University)

• Joerges, Christian (European University Institute)

• Kymlicka, Will (Queen’s University)

• Lavi, Shai (Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law)

• Macey, Jonathan (Yale Law School)

• Rosenfeld, Michel (Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of

Law)

• Schlink, Bernhard (Humboldt-Universitäet zu Berlin)

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTSPROGRAMThe International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at theUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Law is dedicated to pro-moting global human rights through legal education,research and advocacy. Its mission is to mobilize lawyersto address international human rights issues and todevelop the capacity of students and program partici-pants to establish human rights norms in domestic andinternational contexts. Established by Professor RebeccaCook in 1987, the IHRP now involves hundreds of J.D. and graduate students and dozens of faculty members.


“The University of Toronto Faculty of Law combinesa diverse and talented student community with oneof the most vibrant and innovative groups of legalscholars found anywhere. The commitment tosocial issues felt there is exemplary for a school ofits distinction.”

Professor James Anaya

Distinguished Visiting Scholar,

University of Arizona, College Of Law


• Boston University School of Law (Wendy Gordon)

• Columbia School of Business (James Alleman) • Columbia University (George Stephanopoulos) • Columbia University School of Law (Richard

Briffault, John Coffee, George Fletcher and Ronald Gilson)

• Columbia University, School of Public Health (Sherry Glied)

• Cornell Law School (Jonathan Macey) • Debevoise & Plimpton (Payam Akhavan) • Duke University School of Law (Stanley Fish) • Georgetown University Law Center (Carrie

Menkel-Meadow) • Harvard Law School (Kwesi Borchwey, John

Clark, Janet Halley, Mort Horwitz, David Kennedy, Reinier Kraakman, Martha Minow, Paul Weiler and Joseph Weiler)

• Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (Frederick Schauer)

• Johns Hopkins University (Lawrence Gostin) • Montana State University (Dean Lueck) • New York University School of Law (Robert

Daines, Richard Revesz) • Northeastern University School of Law (Karl

Klare) • Notre Dame Law School (James Seckinger) • Rutgers University School of Law (Alan Hyde) • Stanford Law School (Lawrence Lessig,

Margaret Radin) • Tulane University School of Law (Gunther

Handl) • University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College

of Law (James Anaya) • University of California at Berkeley School of

Law, Boalt Hall (Pam Samuelson, Suzanne Scotchmer, Robert Cooter, and Peter Menell)

• University of Chicago Law School (Saul Levmore, Cass Sunstein)

• University of Michigan Law School (Rebecca Eisenberg)

• University of Minnesota Law School (Dan Burk, Robert Hudec)

• University of New York at Buffalo (Virginia Leary)

• University of North Carolina School of Law (Adrienne Davis)

• University of Southern California Law School (Gary Schwartz and Michael Knoll)

• University of Texas School of Law (Neil Netanel)

• University of Virginia School of Law (Paul Mahoney, George Triantis)

• University of Wisconsin Law School (Richard Bilder and Stuart Macaulay)

• Yale Law School (Ian Ayres, Jules Coleman, William Eskridge, Jr., Owen Fiss, Robert Gordon, Jacob Hacker, Oona Hathaway, Harold Koh, Jonathan Macey, George Priest, Roberta Romano, Carol Rose and Alan Schwartz)

• Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law (Michel Rosenfeld)

• Government of Saskatchewan (John Whyte) • McGill University Faculty of Law (Stephen

Toope) • Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa (William

Graham) • Queen’s University School of Policy Studies

(Thomas Courchene, Will Kymlicka) • Simon Fraser University, Department of Economics (Jack Knetsch) • Supreme Court of Canada (The Hon. Frank

Iacobucci, former Justice S.C.C. and Madam Justice Rosalie S. Abella)

• University of Alberta (Randall Morck) • Université de Montréal (Andrée Lajoie) • University of Toronto, Rotman School of

Management (Glen Whyte)

• Cambridge University (Jack Beatson) • Edinburgh University (Neil MacCormick) • King’s College, School of Law (Robert Wintemute) • Lancaster University Law School (David Sugarman) • London School of Economics (Chaloka Beyani, Martin

Loughlin) • University College London, Faculty of Law (Philippe

Sands) • Manchester University (Neil Duxbury, Anthony Ogus) • Oxford University Faculty of Law (Joseph Raz) • University of Warwick (Upendra Baxi)

• University of Chile (José Zalaquett, Cecilia Medina)

• Eco-Axis S.A. San Martin Buenos Aires-Argentina (Beatriz Nofal)

• Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina (Eduardo Baistrocchi, Guido Pincione, Horacio Spector)

• Universidad National, Bogata and Colombia (Ana Maria Bejarano)

• Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Pierre Legrand)

• European University Institute (Gráinne DeBúrca, Christian Joerges)

• University of Turin, School of Economics (Enrico Colombatto)

• Technical University of Denmark

(William Melody


As part of the Law School’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Program,the following scholars from around the world have come to thefaculty to teach two-week intensive courses:


• Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law (Daphne Barak-Erez, Leora Bilsky, Aryeh Edrei, Shai Lavi, Assaf Likhovski)

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Alon Harel and Gabriel Shalev)

• Supreme Court of Israel (President Aharon Barak) • University of Haifa, Mount Carmel (Jonathan Yoval)

• Constitutional Court of South Africa (Justice Albert Sachs) • University of Cape Town (Judge Dennis Davis and Christina Murray) • University of the Free State, South Africa (Charles Ngwena) • Supreme Court of South Africa (Richard Goldstone)

• Tata Energy Research Institute (Sanjivi Sundar)

• National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (Michael Hor, Victor Ramraj)

• Australian National University (Gillian Dempsey) • Flinders University (Andrew Goldsmith) • Southern Cross University (Stanley Yeo)

• National Taiwan University (Jiunn-rong Yeh)

• University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (Yash Ghai)

• Tsinghua University (Betty Ho)

• Åbo Akademi University, Department of Law (Martin Scheinin)

• Constitutional Court of Poland (Justice Lech Garlicki)

• Central European University, Faculty of Law (Andras Sajo)

• University of Otago (John Dawson) • University of Auckland (Michael Taggart)

• Humboldt-Universitäet zu Berlin (Bernhard Schlink) • Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Dieter Grimm) • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Competition

and Tax Law (Joseph Straus)

• International Labour Office (Janelle Diller) • International Labour Organization (Francis Maupain) • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

(Bertrand Ramcharan)

• Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women its causes and its consequences (Radhika Coomaraswamy)




“The graduate program at Uof T’s Faculty of Law

provides not only a strong legal foundation but is

also a place where one is exposed to people from

many different backgrounds and walks of life.

Faculty members are experts in their fields and

excellent teachers who are sensitive to cultural

differences. As well, given that graduate

courses interface with undergraduate courses,

one gets to meet and interact with undergraduate

students, predominantly Canadians, who are very

helpful and friendly people.”

Shumani Gereda (South Africa), LLM 2004



IHRP WORKING GROUPSIHRP working groups provide students with theopportunity to advocate for specific internationalhuman rights issues. Working with non-governmen-tal, intergovernmental organizations, and govern-ment agencies such as the Department of ForeignAffairs and International Trade, students conductlegal research, and provide advocacy assistance oninternational issues.

IHRP INTERNSHIPSThe IHRP also provides law students with the oppor-tunity to work during the summer alongside interna-tional human rights practitioners at governmental,non-governmental and United Nations organiza-tions. Through the internship program, studentsconduct legal research, provide legal services andcarry out legal literacy education.

IHRP SPEAKER SERIESThe IHRP sponsors a speaker series on internationalhuman rights concerns. During 2004-05, the IHRPsponsored or supported 19 speakers including:Gerry Caplan on “Reflections on the RwandanGenocide”, Houshang Bouzari on “The Effects ofTorture”, Greg Fox on “Governing Iraq” and Rachel

Kiddell-Monroe on “Promoting Access of EssentialMedicines”.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINICIn September 2003, the IHRP opened the firstInternational Human Rights Clinic in Canada. Theclinic provides students with the opportunity to liti-gate international human rights cases under thesupervision of IHRP Director Noah Novogrodsky andProfessors Ed Morgan and Darlene Johnston.Students are challenged to protect and promoteinternational human rights before Canadian Courts,in foreign courts, at regional and UN Treaty bodiesand before international criminal tribunals. The clin-ic has contributed to a number of important victo-ries before various courts including the SupremeCourt of Canada. On December 8, 2004, NoahNovogrodsky along with several law studentsappeared as an intervenor in the case Mugesera v. Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and in June 2005, the Court adopted their international criminal law definitions, and found Léon Mugesaradeportable for inciting genocide in Rwanda. In April2007, the Clinic represented Mayan farmers at theSupreme Court in Belize regarding their indigenousland rights claim.

IHRP Director Noah Novogrodsky and Professor DarleneJohnston (back row, right) visit a Mayan school in Toledo,Belize.

“My experience as Associate Dean of the GraduateProgram at U of T has been enriched immeasurablyby the quality of graduate students who come to our school to study each year. The mixture of excellent students from Canada and abroad, unitedby their desire to do work at the graduate level butwith such diverse accomplishments, interests andbackgrounds, makes for a tremendously stimulatingacademic environment.”

Professor David Dyzenhaus, Associate Dean of theGraduate Program, shown in the middle, along with



Graduate legal studies at U of T means a dynamic intellectu-al environment based on the multitude of strengths andinterests of our faculty members, which makes it possible tooffer supervision in most areas of law. A variety of approach-es to legal scholarship are represented including law andeconomics, legal history, feminism and the law, law and soci-ety, analytical jurisprudence and critical legal theory.

Each year, the graduate program enrolls a student bodymade up of approximately 60 to 80 new graduate studentswho demonstrate academic excellence, wide-ranging inter-ests and varied career plans. They come from across Canada,as well as from a number of countries worldwide, and bring

with them diverse backgrounds and cultures, all of whichcontribute to the international flavour of the program.

The Faculty of Law has strong connections to other academ-ic units within the university such as the Joseph L. RotmanSchool of Management, the Joint Centre for Bioethics, theCentres for Criminology and Industrial Relations, and theInstitute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies. As well,the university departments of economics, environmentalstudies, philosophy, and political science are places whereour students take courses. Our students benefit too from anumber of roundtables, lecture series, seminars, and confer-ences that take place annually at the law school.

The Faculty of Law offers three graduate degrees: the Master of Studies in Law (MSL);

the Master of Laws (LLM); and the Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD). Through our

degree programs we are working to train the next generation of leaders in academia,

private practice, government, and non-profit and non-governmental organizations

worldwide.

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Graduate legal studies at U of T means a

dynamic intellectual environment based

on the multitude of strengths and interests

of our faculty members.

“My life in Toronto has been enriched by the many friendships that I have

forged at this formative stage in my intellectual development. What I cherish

most about my experience at the U of T law school is being able to work

with excellent professors and being part of a genuinely lively intellectual

environment. Interaction with other students keeps me on my toes and

inspires me to engage my work in a more deliberate and reflective manner.”

Rueban Balasubramaniam (Malaysia), SJD 2006



Each year the Faculty of Law at U of T offers

more than 100 regular and intensive courses in

a multitude of different areas of the law for

graduate students to choose from.

The Master of Studies in Law is a very small pro-gram designed for established academics andscholars who work and write in a discipline relat-ed to law, and who wish to acquire a knowledgeof law in order to add a legal dimension to schol-arship in their own discipline.

Applicants should hold a doctorate from a recognized university, and should have demon-strated a high level of scholarship in a disciplinerelated to law. Applicants often undertake thisdegree while on leave from their academicappointment.

Candidates attend the law school full-time forone eight-month session, beginning in September.During this time, a candidate pursues a course ofstudies including at least three of the followingfirst year law subjects: contracts, torts, property,criminal law, constitutional law. Other courses canbe selected to match the candidate’s particularinterests.

Candidates in the MSL program also complete aresearch project of an interdisciplinary natureunder the supervision of a member of graduatefaculty.

The Master of Studies in Law(MSL) Program

Michael Marrus, a distinguished historian of modern France and of the Holocaust,and former Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto,embarked upon the Master of Studies of Law program in 2004. “I loved it” is howMarrus answers a question about his year spent at the law school. “Once I was intothe courses,” says Marrus with great animation, “they took command. The intellectualissues are powerful. It was a new way of thinking.”

Marrus’ colleagues in the program that year were Michal Schwartz, a linguistics and literature professor from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem who undertook the MSL in order to examine closely the relationship between ethics and law, and Dr. Cathy Popadiuk, a professor of medicine from Memorial University in St. John’s,Newfoundland, who entered the program with a view to helping physicians respondbetter to the legal challenges facing their profession.



The Master of Laws (LLM)Program

The Master of Laws (LLM) is a one-year graduate law degree thatprovides students interested in continuing their study of the lawbeyond their first law degree with an opportunity to pursue amore profound study of specific legal issues.

The LLM program can be undertaken in one of two different ways:

The Thesis Intensive LLM: a strong emphasis on a thesis withless coursework; or

The Coursework Intensive LLM: an emphasis on more course-work and a shorter thesis.

All LLM candidates participate in the graduate seminar,“Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship,” designed toexpose students to various approaches to legal scholarship,including law and philosophy, law and economics, feminism andthe law, legal history, law and society, analytical jurisprudence andcritical legal theory. Graduate students choose their other cours-es from those available in the JD program.

We offer specialized courses, legal research and writing for inter-national students and an introductory seminar on the CanadianLegal System.

THESIS INTENSIVE LLMThe thesis intensive LLM offers graduate students the opportuni-ty to demonstrate advanced legal scholarship through the writ-ing of a dissertation of significant length. Graduates of the thesisintensive LLM stream often pursue further graduate legal studies(through a doctoral program) or seek positions in the academy orin policy development.

The full-time LLM is designed as a 12-month program commenc-ing in September and involving a course of studies and a thesis.Students in the thesis intensive LLM program can choose almostany area of law that they are interested in. The part-time thesisintensive LLM program may be taken over a period of two years.

Requirements• Residency (September to April)

• 24 credit hours of coursework and thesis combined

• a minimum of 8 credit hours of coursework (three or four

seminars)

• a thesis of approximately 150 pages (45,000 words) valued at 16

credits, under the supervision of a member of the graduate faculty

• Graduate Seminar: Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship

COURSEWORK INTENSIVE LLMThe coursework intensive format is designed for law studentswho wish to specialize in a specific area of law, particularly in oneof the Law Faculty’s several strengths, or who wish to develop anunderstanding of North American legal processes and laws, orwho wish to explore the common law at an advanced level.

Graduates of the coursework intensive LLM have pursued furthergraduate legal education (through a doctoral program), entereddirectly into an academic position, or pursued practice with pri-vate, governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The coursework intensive LLM is usually undertaken on a full-time basis, from September to August. In exceptional cases, withthe permission of the Associate Dean, students may apply tocomplete the program on a part-time basis.

Requirements• Residency (September to April)

• 24 credit hours of coursework and thesis combined

• a maximum of 20 credit hours of coursework (six to eight

seminars)

• a thesis of approximately 50 to 60 pages (15,000 to 18,000

words) valued at 4 credits, under the supervision of a member

of graduate faculty

• Graduate Seminar: Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship

Bora Laskin Law Library



This program is directed at students who wish to specializein some aspect of international law, to develop theirknowledge of the international legal system and the relationship between international and domestic law, andto gain an awareness of comparative law theories andmethods. There are a great number of faculty membersworking in the area including: Jutta Brunnée (see sidebar),Sujit Choudhry, Rebecca Cook, Brenda Cossman, BernardDickens, Anver Emon, Andrew Green, Karen Knop, BrianLangille, Audrey Macklin, Patrick Macklem, Mayo Moran, EdMorgan, Kerry Rittich, Ayelet Shachar, David Schneiderman,Michael Trebilcock, Catherine Valcke, and Lorraine Weinrib.They offer teaching and supervision in various aspects ofinternational law. The curriculum is designed to promotean understanding of the emerging laws and legal trendsaffecting nations and relations between nations.

The program in International Law includes a number ofopportunities for students to enlarge their practical expe-rience in the field, exchange ideas, and deepen theirknowledge base, including: The International HumanRights Program, the International Law Society, the JD/MA(International Relations) Speakers Series, and the Women’sHuman Rights Resources Initiative.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM(IHRP)The goal of the internship program is to train and developthe capacity of students in the promotion and protectionof international human rights through advocacy, activism,research and education. At the same time, the IHRP internships allow students to gain practical experience inthe field, undertake independent research or experiencehuman rights concerns that are of interest to them. Lastyear, 30 law students were awarded ten-week international

human rights internships, usually undertaken in the sum-mer months. Qualified students will be eligible to apply forplacements to work on legal projects with the UnitedNations, governmental and non-governmental organiza-tions.

INTERNATIONAL LAW SOCIETYOne of the student-run International Law Society’s activi-ties is the international law lunch program. Every month adifferent law firm in Toronto sponsors luncheon speakerswho discuss the international work they do. The Societyalso organizes the Annual Career conference, which drawsa number of speakers discussing a wide variety of careersin the international arena, including human rights, diplo-matic work, international business transactions and com-petition law.

JD/MA (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) SPEAKERSSERIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAWThis series provides an opportunity for students and facul-ty to explore important developments in international lawwith speakers who have experience with developments ata theoretical or practical level. Recent speakers haveincluded Professor James Anaya of the University ofArizona, College of Law; Professor Vaughan Black ofDalhousie University Law School; and Professor CeciliaMorgan of the University of Chile.

WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES This on-line advocacy and research centre promoteswomen’s rights by supporting advocacy, research andeducation in international human rights law. More infor-mation is available on the Bora Laskin Law Library website at www.law-lib.utoronto.ca.

COURSEWORK INTENSIVE LLM

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Professor Jutta BrunnéeMetcalf Chair in Environmental Law

Jutta Brunnée is a specialist ininternational law and interna-tional environmental law. Shehas published extensively, andis the past editor-in-chief ofthe Yearbook of EnvironmentalLaw (Oxford University Press).Her most recent publication –The Oxford Handbook ofInternational Environmental Laws– provides an indispensibleoverview of the field. ProfessorBrunnée maintains a busyspeaking schedule abroad,which has included conferencesin Japan and Sweden.


“My year at U of T has exceeded all of my expectations.

I studied an incredibly diverse range of subjects

taught by distinguished professors who are truly

inspiring and engaging. I also made wonderful new

friends from all over the world, and was able to

explore not only the many pockets of Toronto, but

also the beautiful surrounding countryside and wine

regions outside of Toronto. This has been one of the

most enriching experiences of my life and has

inspired me to embark on a new stage in my career.”

Sabra Easterday (Australia), LLM 2006




Canada’s unique constitutional history has resulted in thedevelopment of a distinct Canadian constitutionalism, whichhas served as a model and source of interpretation for manyother constitutional courts. The LLM in Constitutional Lawenables students to study distinctive features of theCanadian constitution, including federalism, the constitu-tional recognition of historic communities, the treatment ofminority cultures, the treatment of aboriginal people, andthe Charter of Rights and Freedoms, from a Canadian or acomparative perspective. Students seeking to deepen theirknowledge and understanding of constitutional documentsand litigation will also benefit from this program. The facultyhas a deep roster of constitutional scholars: Alan Brudner,Sujit Choudhry, Patrick Macklem, Mayo Moran, Ed Morgan,Jennifer Nedelsky, Kent Roach, Carol Rogerson, DavidSchneiderman, Richard Simeon, and Lorraine Weinrib (seesidebar). They are involved in the evaluation of the develop-ment not only of the Canadian constitution, but also of theconstitutions of other countries, such as Israel, the U.S., andSouth Africa.

A number of regularly scheduled events are plannedthroughout the academic year that contribute to the

program in Constitutional Law, including the ConstitutionalRoundtable and the Test Case Litigation Clinic.

CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLEThis monthly series of discussions brings together leadingconstitutional scholars and practitioners to discuss contem-porary constitutional issues. Recent speakers have includedProfessor William Eskridge of Yale Law School; ProfessorGeorge Fletcher of Columbia University School of Law; andthe Hon. Frank Iacobucci, former justice of the SupremeCourt of Canada.

TEST CASE LITIGATION CLINICThis initiative by Professor Ed Morgan involves the use ofstudents on current human rights issues through the litiga-tion process. The Clinic has conducted cases on behalf of theCanadian Jewish Congress, the African Canadian Legal Clinic,the Assembly of First Nations and the Green Party ofCanada. The Clinic has a number of ongoing cases as well as those in the start-up phase, and pursues litigationthrough all levels of the court system.

Professor Lorraine WeinribLorraine Weinrib is a leading expert in Canadian constitutional law. Her extensive body of scholarshipincludes many articles and books on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and on comparativeconstitutional law. She is consulted widely, and has litigated extensively, frequently before the SupremeCourt of Canada. Professor Weinrib has been a visiting professor at a number of law schools internationally,including Tel Aviv University.

Constitutional Law enables students

to study distinctive features of the

Canadian constitution, including

federalism, the constitutional recogni-

tion of historic communities, the

treatment of minority cultures, the

treatment of aboriginal people, and

the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

from a Canadian or a comparative

perspective.


CONSTITUTIONAL LAW



Professor Colleen FloodCanada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy

Colleen Flood specializes in health law and has published widely on health reform and policy. She has been

invited to provide expertise to a number of government commissions, including that chaired recently by Roy

Romanow on the future of Canadian health care, and is a frequent contributor to public debate on the sub-

ject in Canada. Professor Flood has authored two books on health care reform: Canadian Health Law and

Policy (2nd ed., 2002) and International Health Care Reform: A Legal, Economic and Political Analysis

(2000), and is editor of a recent book Just Medicare: What’s In, What’s Out, How We Decide (2006).

This program is led by faculty members Bernard Dickens,Canada’s preeminent expert in medical jurisprudence, andRebecca Cook, the first of our health law scholars to focus on themulti-dimensional problems of the developing world. Three morerecent appointments, Colleen Flood (see sidebar), Trudo Lemmens,and Sujit Choudhry, have contributed both depth and breadth toour existing expertise. Members of this core group of scholarshave cross-appointments in various relevant academic depart-ments, including Medicine, Public Health Sciences; Health Policy,Management and Evaluation; Medical Genetics and Microbiology;and Psychiatry. They are also associated with relevant academiccentres, such as the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and theJoint Centre for Bioethics.

Over the last five years, the Health Law and Policy Program hasheld major conferences, sponsored roundtables, and has devel-oped a workshop series in which local, national and internationalscholars and policy makers have addressed matters of timelyimportance in the health law and policy area. For more informa-tion visit the Health Law and Policy Group web site atwww.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/.

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY SEMINAR SERIESThis seminar series brings guest speakers to the Faculty of Law tostimulate discussion of issues related to the intersection of lawwith health care and related ethical and social issues.

HEALTH LAW DAYThe Health Law and Policy Program organizes an annual confer-ence designed to present cutting edge research to practitioners,

the Ministry of Health and other health law constituencies. In2004 the National Health Law Conference examined the currentissues facing Canada’s health care system including scarceresources, waiting times, and technology in health care delivery.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ON REPRODUCTIVE ANDSEXUAL HEALTH LAWThis program is co-directed by Professor Rebecca Cook, BernardDickens and Joanna Erdman and sponsors the GraduateScholarship in Reproductive Health Law. Scholarships aredesigned to permit law graduates from Africa, the Middle East,Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia or Central and Eastern Europewho have an interest in human rights and women’s health intheir own countries to undertake advanced research and study inthis emerging area of law. Please refer to the Awards section formore details.

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN HEALTH LAW ANDPOLICYThe Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will providegraduate scholarships to selected Faculty of Law graduates whoare pursuing graduate research and writing in the area of healthlaw and policy. The CIHR training grants provide support for aninnovative interdisciplinary program that facilitates interactionsbetween students and faculty in a number of different disciplinesin three different institutions (Toronto, Dalhousie and Alberta). Inaddition to providing scholarship funding the CIHR program sup-ports interdisciplinary seminars at all three institutions and anannual workshop for graduate students and health law teachers.

The Health Law and Policy

Program has held major confer-

ences, sponsored roundtables,

and has developed a workshop

series in which local, national

and international scholars and

policy makers have addressed

matters of timely importance in

the health law and policy area.


HEALTH LAW AND POLICY



Professor Lisa Austin

Lisa Austin is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, where she is affiliated with the Centre for InnovationLaw and Policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McMaster, and a law degree, a master’s degree and a Ph.D inphilosophy from the University of Toronto. She has served as law clerk to Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of theSupreme Court of Canada.

Professor Austin’s research and teaching interests include property, privacy, the legal regulation of information andthe ethical and social justice issues raised by emerging technologies. She is currently developing work on issuessuch as the challenges that information technology poses to our conception of privacy, and what theory of law ismost responsive to the needs of a technological society.

The LLM in Innovation Law and Policy is designed for graduatesseeking intensive legal training in the law and policy relating toinnovation and technological change. The LLM program will pro-vide candidates with a broad-based and deep understanding ofthe tools that are fundamental to scholarship and practiceregarding innovation and technological change, and evolvingtrends and issues in the area. Teaching and supervision are pro-vided by a number of faculty members including Lisa Austin (seesidebar), a leading scholar in the legal regulation of information,and Michael Trebilcock, University Professor and a renownedscholar in economics, international trade and contracts law.Professors such as Abraham Drassinower, Edward Iacobucci, ArielKatz and Trudo Lemmens, continue to bolster the Faculty’sexpertise in this area. The LLM program in innovation law andpolicy revolves around the Centre of the same name.

CENTRE FOR INNOVATION LAW AND POLICYThe Centre for Innovation Law andPolicy is a multi-faceted centre devot-ed to the study of laws, institutions andpolicies that affect, or are affected by,innovation or technological change.Led by Director, Professor AbrahamDrassinower, the Centre supportsteaching, research, and policy analysisin a broad range of areas in which lawand policy intersect with innovativeactivity. These include intellectual

property, telecommunications, electronic commerce and theInternet, biotechnology and the financing of innovative ventures.

The Centre’s mission is to help foster a legal and policy environ-ment – in Ontario, Canada, and internationally – that promotesethical and socially beneficial innovation and technologicalprogress.

The Centre supports teaching that prepares Ontario’s law gradu-ates to be effective advocates, advisors, and policy-makers withinan economy that is driven by innovation and a society that is profoundly affected by technological change. It also supportsresearch and policy analysis in the area of innovation law andpolicy that is practical, relevant and meets high standards of academic excellence. In all of its activities, the Centre endeavoursto serve as a focal point for collaborative activity involving mem-bers of the academic, professional, business and policy-makingcommunities concerned with innovation law and policy.

The Centre has a Graduate Fellowship Program that supportsLLM and SJD candidates doing their thesis work in innovationlaw and policy. It also sponsors a Research Fund, a SummerFellowship Program, and a Curriculum Development Fund.The Centre organizes and sponsors a number of conferences,seminars, and special lectures throughout the academic year.

LAW AND TECHNOLOGY SERIESThis series contributes to the work of the Centre through a number of lectures such as the annual Grafstein Lecture inCommuni-cations; the Practitioner Series; the Roundtable Series; the Special Lecture Series; and the Working Papers Series.

Prof. Abraham Drassinower


INNOVATION LAW AND POLICY



The LLM in Business Law and Institutions is designed for studentsseeking intensive academic training in the legal regulation ofNorth American business activity. The public regulation of capitalmarkets and tax regimes in the modern global economy is ofinternational concern. Our LLM program will provide candidateswith an understanding of the North American regulatory institu-tions and laws that structure private financial transactions. Withthe help and direction of faculty members such as MichaelTrebilcock (see sidebar), Jeffrey MacIntosh, former Director of theCapital Markets Institute and a leading expert in securities law,Ben Alarie, David Duff, Anthony Duggan, Edward Iacobucci, IanLee, and Arnold Weinrib, students will be able to explore criticallythe various public and private sector regimes that regulate mod-ern financial activities.

CAPITAL MARKETS INSTITUTEThe Capital Markets Institute (CMI) is a centre for independentand rigorous research, analysis, and debate on capital marketsissues unique to Canada, with the goal of improving the competi-tiveness and functioning of Canadian markets.

A joint venture between the Faculty of Law and the Joseph L.Rotman School of Management, the CMI brings together academics, industry participants, regulators, and politicians,

exemplifying the Faculty of Law’s commitment to collaborativeresearch and public engagement and its tradition of interdiscipli-nary research in conjunction with other parts of the University ofToronto.

A key part of CMI’s mandate is sharing its knowledge with thecommunity. The Institute funds research and offers roundtables,workshops and conferences to share its work with all stakeholdersin Canadian capital markets.

LAW AND ECONOMICS PROGRAMThis program offers students special study and research opportu-nities in a broad range of subject areas having significant law-economics interface. In addition to the law and economics perspective introduced in a variety of courses, the programbrings to the faculty leading law and economics scholars throughthe Law and Economics Workshop and the Distinguished VisitingProfessorship in Law and Economics.

CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL LAW WORKSHOPNow in its 35th year, this annual two-day program attracts distinguished guest speakers and panelists, including leadingmembers of the Bench and Bar as well as legal scholars fromacross Canada, the United States and abroad.

Professor Michael TrebilcockChair in Law and Economics

Michael Trebilcock, University Professor and a specialist in Law and Economics,International Trade, and Contract and Commercial Law, serves as Director of theLaw and Economics Program. He has published widely, including the award-winning book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade (1988). In 1999, theCanada Council awarded him the Molson Prize, the country’s highest award for outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences. This year,Professor Trebilcock was a recipient of the Mundell Medal, presented annuallyby the Attorney General to an Ontario writer on legal or professional matters whohas made a distinguished contribution to law.


BUSINESS LAW AND INSTITUTIONS



Legal problems can be analyzed and prescriptions evaluatedfrom a variety of alternative viewpoints, such as law and econom-ics, law and philosophy (including utilitarianism, Kantianism andAristotelian theories), legal history, critical legal studies, feminism,critical race theory and sociological theories of law. Candidatescan concentrate their studies in one area or design a curriculum,which canvasses the spectrum of Legal Theory. The faculty has aninfluential roster of legal theorists with ties to colleagues in thefield located around the world: Lisa Austin, Peter Benson, AlanBrudner, Jutta Brunnée, Bruce Chapman, Brenda Cossman,Abraham Drassinower, David Dyzenhaus, Angela Fernandez, BrianLangille, Trudo Lemmens, Mayo Moran, Jennifer Nedelsky, DeniseRéaume, Sophia Reibetanz, Arthur Ripstein, Ayelet Shachar,Hamish Stewart, Catherine Valcke, and Ernest Weinrib (see side-bar). Many of these scholars are cross-appointed to the depart-ments of philosophy, political science and classics, which enablesgraduates to critically analyze a wide range of theoreticalapproaches to a number of legal issues. The program in legal theory sponsors its own workshop series, as well as an annual lecture.

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOPSThis workshop series brings leading legal and political philoso-phers from around the world to present their work in progress to

the Faculty, thus providing a forum for both faculty and studentsto engage in discussion of the central topics in legal theory. Theworkshop is committed to a generous and pluralistic vision oftheory. Recent speakers have included Professor Cecile Fabrefrom the London School of Economics and Professor JedRubenfeld from Yale Law School.

FEMINISM AND LAW WORKSHOPS The Feminism and Law workshop series invites a distinctapproach to legal scholarship. Students can enhance their under-standing of contemporary legal issues by participating in thisseries, which not only stresses a unique perspective but also pro-vides a broader understanding of the law through interdiscipli-nary context. Recent speakers have included Professor LouiseLangevin from Laval University and Professor Vicki Schultz fromHarvard University.

CRITICAL LEGAL THEORY LECTUREThis lecture series was established in 1996 to enhance the profileof critical normative perspectives in the law school’s curriculumat the Faculty. The inaugural lecture was given by ProfessorKimberle Crenshaw of Columbia University Law School, and other lecturers have included Professor Neil Gotanda, WesternState College.

Professor Ernest WeinribCecil A. Wright Chair

Ernest Weinrib, University Professor and the Cecil A. Wright Professor ofLaw, specializes in Legal Theory and Tort Law. His publications are exten-sive, including a major book published in 1995, The Idea of Private Law.Professor Weinrib’s work is recognized internationally and has been thesubject of various symposia. He has lectured widely, and recently wasVisiting Professor at Tel Aviv University. In May, 2007 Professor Weinribwas named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers in aprovince-wide competition adjudicated by the Ontario Confederation ofUniversity Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Awards Committee.


LEGAL THEORY



A Constitutional Law for Europe? Introductionto the Law of the European Union

Aboriginal Law of the NorthEast: TheAnishinabek and Haudenosaunee LegalTraditions

Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Law Accessible Justice: The Case of Disability

Rights Administrative Law Advanced Aboriginal Studies Advanced Criminal Evidence Advanced Labour: Bargaining Rights Advanced Legal Research, Analysis and

Writing Advanced Private law: Categories and

Concepts Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship Alternative Dispute Resolution Art of the Deal Bankruptcy Law Business Organizations Can there be Universal Human Rights (and

other Rights Debates) Canadian Approaches to International Law Canadian Income Tax Law Canadian Migration Law Children and the Law Clinical Legal Education - Advocates for

Injured Workers – Selection by Clinic Clinical Legal Education - Barbra Schlifer

Clinic – Selection by Clinic Clinical Legal Education: Health Equity and

Law Clinic Clinical Legal Education: International

Human Rights Clinic Clinical Legal Education: Legal Clinic of the

Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples Clinical Legal Education: Public Interest

Advocacy: The Intensive Program (Clinical) Clinical Legal Education: Public Interest

Advocacy: The Part-Time Program Clinical Legal Eduction: International Human

Rights Clinic Practicum Community Planning: Problems in Urban

Policy and Land Use Regulation Competition Policy

Constitutional Courts and ConstitutionalRights

Constitutional Litigation SeminarContested Corporate Transactions Corporations, Individuals and the State Criminal Justice History Criminal Law Theory Criminal Procedure Directed Research Program Discrimination Law: Equality in the Private

Sector Education Law Entertainment LawEnvironmental Law Practicum Evidence Law Exploring the Intersections of Law and Social

Work Family Law Family Mediation: Theory and Practice Fault and ResponsibilityFreedom of Expression and PressFrom Blueprints to Buildings: Legal Issues in

the Construction IndustryGender, Politics and Islamic Law Governing Governance: Legal Institutions &

Corporate Performance in ComparativePerspective

Information Law Innovation and Knowledge Transfer in City

RegionsIntellectual Property: Patent, Copyright and

TrademarkIntensive Course: Animal Rights: History,

Philosophy & JurisprudenceIntensive Course: Comparative Constitutional

Equality, Minority & Group Rights Intensive Course: Financial Institutions,

Financial Markets and Law Intensive Course: Free World Trade & Social

RegulationIntensive Course: Global Labour LawIntensive Course: International &

Comparative Law on IndigenousPeoples

Intensive Course: International Law andInternational Relations

Intensive Course: International Norms ofMinority Rights: Causes, Categories,Consequences

Intensive Course: Introduction to theCanadian Legal System

Intensive Course: Introduction to ChineseLaw

Intensive Course: Introduction to GermanConstitutional Law

Intensive Course: Issues in Criminal Justice Intensive Course: Law and TerrorismIntensive Course: Law, Security and

International Development Intensive Course: Social Welfare Politics,

Policy and LawInternational Commercial Arbitration International Environmental LawInternational Taxation International Trade RegulationIntroduction to Legal Culture & Legal History Jewish Law Journal: Indigenous Law Journal: International Law and International

RelationsJournal: Law and EqualityJournal: University of Toronto Faculty of Law

ReviewJudicial Review in Comparative PerspectiveLabour LawLand Use Planning & Local Government Law Law and FilmLaw and LiteratureLaw and the Holocaust Law, Institutions and Development Law, Religion and Public Discourse Legal Research and Writing for International

Law StudentsLitigation and Social ChangeMedical Jurisprudence Mentally Disordered Accused Modern Political TrialsNational Security, Criminality, Human Rights

and Non-Citizens Negotiation Patent and Trade Secrets Law

Perspectives on Civil Litigation, Procedure &Professionalism

Philosophical Foundation of the Common Law Political Theory of G.W.F. Hegel Private International LawPrivate Pensions, Public Responsibilities: The

Law & Regulation of the Canadian PensionSystem

Public International Law Public Law, Social Regulation and Poverty Real Estate LawReligion and the Liberal State: The Case of IslamReproductive and Sexual Health LawRestitution Rights Roman LawSecurities Regulation Sentencing and Penal PolicySports Law Taxation of Partnerships and Corporations Telecommunications and Internet LawThe Law and Praxis of International Human

RightsThe Law of International Business & Finance

TransactionsThe Power Game: Energy Law and Policy in

Ontario The Practice of Competition Law: Effective

Management of Competition Law Risk Theories of EqualityTrial Advocacy Trusts Venture Capital FinancingWomen’s Rights in International Law Workshop : Law and Economics Seminar Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Health

Law and Policy Workshop: Diversity Workshop: Feminism and LawWorkshop: Law and Globalization Workshop: Legal History Seminar Workshop: Tax Law and Policy

*Not all courses are offered in each academicyear

Graduate Upper Year Course Offerings*



Those aspiring to a career as an academic in a law faculty shouldseriously consider pursuing the SJD program (Doctor of JuridicalScience). SJD graduates also pursue successful careers in privatepractice, government, and non-governmental organizations.

The depth of expertise of the law school’s faculty and the manycollaborative research programs focusing on important and topi-cal branches of legal studies which the school has established inrecent years provide graduate students with a rare opportunityto pursue intensive research in a wide range of topics. Our pro-gram consistently produces scholars of the highest calibre, andrecent graduates of the SJD program are now teaching at our ownschool, and at other schools in Canada and around the world.

A candidate for the SJD would generally have a Bachelor of Lawand a Master of Laws degree, from a recognized university, withan excellent academic record. Candidates may be considered fordirect entry into the SJD program following completion of theLLB or JD.

The SJD degree program commences in September of each year.In special circumstances, an application for commencement of aSJD program in January may be considered.

The Faculty offers financial support (academic tuition plus$15,000) each year for three years of study to all doctoral stu-dents who require assistance and who have not obtained exter-nal fellowships. Financial support in the second and third year isconditional upon the student making satisfactory progresstoward completion of the degree, remaining in residence inToronto, and other conditions set out in the Faculty of Law’sAwards Policy.

Requirements• residency requirement while in receipt of financial assistance

(subject to approved leave to study off campus)

• Graduate Seminar: Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship.

Other coursework requirements are designed

on an individual basis. Students entering the SJD program

without an LLM must complete eight credit hours of

coursework

• area requirement and SJD presentation (see below)

• a dissertation of approximately 300 to 400 pages (approximately

90,000 to 100,000 words) which makes a distinct contribution to

legal research or scholarship

• oral examination on the dissertation

AREA REQUIREMENT IN THEDOCTORAL PROGRAMBefore being allowed to proceed with formal research on a thesistopic, a candidate must demonstrate competence in a broaderarea within which the topic falls. An Individual Area Committee(established by the student and approved by the Associate Deanof Graduate Studies) assists in framing that area and compilingan appropriate plan, including a reading list, for carrying out theresearch.

The research undertaken by the candidate culminates either in awritten exam based on the reading list or consists of a researchproject which is either a draft of a chapter of the thesis, or anoverview of the general argument. Both paths lead to an oralexam, essentially a thorough discussion with the committee,based on the written work and the reading list.

SJD PRESENTATIONIn order to focus the second year of research, all SJD students arerequired to present an abstract of their work in progress in theSJD workshop series. Students present to an audience of theirpeers and interested faculty, in order to get positive feedback andsuggestions from a group larger than their committee.

The doctoral program at the U of T Faculty of Law provides an opportunity for outstanding

law graduates to pursue original academic research at the highest level. It is becoming

increasingly common for Canadian and international law schools to hire doctoral graduates

as law faculty.

In the past five years, more

than 25 LLM and SJD graduates

have found teaching positions

in faculties across Canada and

around the world in countries

such as Australia, Iceland and

Peru.

The Doctor of Juridical Science(SJD) Program



U of T Faculty Members 2008/09

(T-B): Professors Anita Anandand Ian Lee

(L-R): Law and Philosophy Professors

Bruce Chapman, Ernest J. Weinrib,

Mayo Moran, David Dyzenhaus, Sophia

Reibetanz Moreau, Jenny Nedelsky

(sitting), Peter Benson, Alan Brudner,

Catherine Valcke, Arthur Ripstein,

Denise Réaume, Abraham Drassinower

(sitting), Lisa Austin and Hamish

Stewart

BEN ALARIE, B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier) 1999, M.A. (Toronto) 2002,

J.D. (Hon.) (Toronto) 2002, LL.M. (Yale) 2003

Tax, Contracts, Torts

ANITA ANAND, B.A. Hons. (Queen’s) 1989, B.A. Hons.

(Jurisprudence) (Oxon) 1991, LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1992, LL.M.

(Toronto) 1996

Bankruptcy Law, Securities Regulation

LISA AUSTIN, B.A.&Sc. (McMaster) 1994, M.A. (Toronto)

1995, LL.B. (Toronto) 1998

Privacy, Property, Intellectual Property and Ethical and Social

Justice Issues Raised by Emerging Technologies

PETER BENSON, A.B. (magna cum laude, Harvard College);

M.Sc. (London School of Economics and Political Science), LL.B.

(Toronto), LL.M. (Harvard University)

Contract Law, Tort Law, Theory of Private Law, and Theories of

Justice

NEHAL BHUTA, B.A. (Melbourne) 1999, LL.B. Hons.

(Melbourne) 1999, M.A. (Poli. Sci.) (New School for Social

Research) 2004 , LL.M. (NYU) 2005

The Law, Praxis of International Human Rights

ALAN BRUDNER, B.A. (Toronto) 1966, M.A. (Toronto) 1968,

Ph.D. (Political Science) (Toronto) 1976, LL.B. (Toronto) 1983

Criminal Law, Constitutional Theory, Hegel’s Political Philosophy,

Legal Philosophy

JUTTA BRUNNÉE, Ref. iur. (1985), LL.M. (Dalhousie) 1987,

Ass. iur. (1989), Dr. iur. (Johannes Gutenberg Universität) 1989

Public International Law, International Environmental Law,

International Law and International Relations Theory

BRUCE CHAPMAN, B.A. (Carleton) 1973, Ph.D. (Cambridge)

1979, LL.B. (Toronto) 1987

Tort Law, Legal Theory, Law and Economics, Decision Theory

SUJIT CHOUDHRY, B.Sc. (McGill) 1992, B.A. (Oxon.) (Juris.)

1994, LL.B. (Toronto) 1996, LL.M. (Harvard) 1998

Constitutional Law and Theory, and Health Law and Policy

MICHAEL CODE, LL.B (Toronto) 1976, LL.M. (Toronto) 1991

Criminal and Evidence

REBECCA J. COOK, A.B. (Barnard) 1970, M.A. (Tufts) 1972,

M.P.A. (Harvard) 1973, J.D. (Georgetown) 1982, LL.M. (Columbia)

1988, S.J.D. (Columbia) 1994

International Human Rights, Health Law and Ethics

BRENDA COSSMAN, B.A. (Queen’s) 1982, LL.B. (Toronto)

1986, LL.M. (Harvard) 1988

Family Law, Freedom of Expression, Feminist Legal Theory, Law

and Sexuality

BERNARD M. DICKENS, LL.B. 1961, LL.M. 1965, Ph.D.

(Law-Criminology) 1971, LL.D. (Medical Jurisprudence) 1978

(London)

Law and Medicine, Medical and Health Law

ABRAHAM DRASSINOWER, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., LL.B.

(Toronto)

Property, Intellectual Property, Legal and Political Philosophy,

Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis

DAVID G. DUFF, B.A. Hons. (Queen’s) 1984, M.A. (York) 1987,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1989, M.A. (Toronto) 1990, LL.M. (Harvard) 1991

Tax Law, Tax Policy, Statutory Interpretation, and Distributive

Justice

ANTHONY DUGGAN, B.A. (Melbourne) 1971, LL.M. (Toronto)

1975, LL.D. (Melbourne) 1991

Contract, Equity, Credit and Security Law and Consumer

Protection

DAVID DYZENHAUS, B.A., 1977, LL.B., 1979

(Witwatersrand); D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1988, FRSC

Law & Philosophy, Legal Theory, Administrative Law

ANVER EMON, B.A. (Berkeley) 1993, J.D. (UCLA) 1996, M.A.

(Texas at Austin) 1999, LL.M. (Yale) 2004, PhD (UCLA) and a

J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School

Ethics, Islamic law, Legal Theory, Middle Eastern law

MOHAMMAD H. FADEL, B.A. Hons. (Government and

Foreign Affairs) (Virginia) 1988, Ph.D. (Near Eastern Languages

and Civilizations) (Chicago) 1995, J.D. (Virginia) 1999

Business Organizations, The Law Of International Bussiness and

Finance Transactions, Religion and the Liberal State: The Case Of Islam

ANGELA FERNANDEZ, B.A. (McGill) 1995, M.A. (Queen’s)

1996, LL.B. & B.C.L. (McGill) 2000, LL.M. (Yale) 2002, S.J.D. (Yale)

expected 2007

Contracts, Legal History, Lawyers and Legal Culture

COLLEEN M. FLOOD, B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) (Auckland) 1991,

LL.M. (Toronto) 1994, S.J.D. (Toronto) 1998

Comparative Health Care Law and Policy, Administrative Law,

Economic Regulation, and Competition Law

ANDREW GREEN, B.A. (Queen’s) 1987, M.A. (Econ.)

(Toronto) 1988, LL.B. (Toronto) 1992, LL.M. (Chicago) 1994, J.S.D.

(Chicago) 1997

Environmental Law, International Trade Law

EDWARD M. IACOBUCCI, B.A. (Hons.) (Queen’s) 1991,

M.Phil. (Oxon.) 1993, LL.B. (Toronto) 1996

Corporate Law, Competition Law, and Law and Economics

DARLENE JOHNSTON, B.A. (Hons. History) (Queen’s) 1983,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1986

Aboriginal Law, Property Law



ARIEL KATZ, LL.B. (Hebrew University)

1997, LL.M. cum laude (Hebrew University)

2001, S.J.D. (Toronto) 2005

E-commerce, Trade, Competition, Intellectual

Property, Property, Contracts, Competition

KAREN KNOP, B.Sc. (Dalhousie) 1982,

LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1986, LL.M. (Columbia) 1990,

S.J.D. (Toronto) 1999

Public International Law, with a focus on issues

of diversity, Private International Law

BRIAN A. LANGILLE, B.A. (Acadia) 1972,

LL.B. (Dalhousie) 1975, B.C.L. (Oxon.) 1977

Labour, International Labour Law, Contract,

Legal Theory

IAN B. LEE, B.Comm. (Econ.) (Toronto),


Corporate Law, Corporate Governance,

Constitutional Law

TRUDO LEMMENS, Cand. Jur.1985, Lic.

Jur. 1988 (K.U.Leuven), LL.M. (specialization

Bioethics) (McGill) 1995, D.C.L. (McGill) 2003

Health Law and Policy and Applied Ethics,

Research Ethics and Regulation, Legal and

Ethical Issues of New Medical Technologies

JEFFREY G. MACINTOSH, B.Sc. (M.I.T.)


Corporation Law, Corporate Finance, Securities

Regulation, Venture Capital, and Small Firm

Financing

PATRICK MACKLEM, B.A. (McGill) 1981,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1984, LL.M. (Harvard) 1986

Constitutional Law, Labour Policy,

International Human Rights Law, Aboriginal

Peoples and the Law

AUDREY MACKLIN, B.Sc. (Alberta) 1984,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1987, LL.M. (Yale) 1991

Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Immigration

and Refugee Law, Transnational Migration,

Citizenship, Forced Migration, Feminist and

Cultural Analysis, and Human Rights

MAYO MORAN, B.A. (UBC) 1980, B.Ed.

(UBC) 1981, LL.B. (McGill) 1990, LL.M.

(Michigan) 1992, S.J.D. (Toronto) 1999

Comparative Constitutional Law, Private Law,

Legal and Feminist Theory, Reparations

Theory and Transitional Justice

SOPHIA REIBETANZ MOREAU, B.A.

(Toronto) 1994, B. Phil. (Oxon.) 1996, Ph.D.

(Harvard), 2000, J.D. (Toronto), 2002

Torts, Equality Theory and Discrimination Law,

Legal Philosophy, Moral Philosophy

ED MORGAN, B.A. (Northwestern) 1976,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1984, LL.M. (Harvard) 1986

Constitutional Law, International Law, Human

Rights

MARIANA MOTO PRADO, B.A.

(Northwestern) 1976, LLB (University of

Sao Paulo) 2000, S.J.D. (Yale) expected 2008

Law and Development, Infrastructure

Regulation, Administrative Law

JENNIFER NEDELSKY, B.A. (Rochester)

1970, M.A. (Chicago) 1974, Ph.D. (Chicago),

1977

Feminist Theory, Theories of Judgment,

American Constitutional History and

Interpretation, Comparative Constitutionalism

and Law and Religion

JIM PHILLIPS, M.A. (Edinburgh) 1976,

Ph.D. (History) (Dalhousie), 1983, LL.B.

(Dalhousie) 1987

Property, Canadian Legal History

DENISE G. RÉAUME, B.A. (Queen’s)

1977, LL.B. (Queen’s) 1980, B.C.L. (Oxon.)

1982

Torts Law, Discrimination Law,

Multiculturalism, and Feminist Legal Theory

ARTHUR RIPSTEIN, B.A. (Manitoba) 1981,

Ph.D. (Philosophy) (Pittsburgh) 1986, M.S.L.

(Yale) 1994

Torts, Criminal Law, Legal Theory, and Political

Philosophy

KERRY RITTICH, Mus. Bac. (Toronto)

1979, LL.B. (Alberta) 1992, S.J.D. (Harvard)

1998

International Law and Institutions, Human

Rights, Labour Law, Critical Legal Theories and

Feminism

KENT ROACH, B.A. (Toronto) 1984, LL.B.

(Toronto) 1987, LL.M. (Yale) 1988

The Criminal Process, the Charter, the Role of

Courts and Comparative Bills of Rights, Anti-ter-

rorism Law and Policy, and Wrongful Convictions

CAROL J. ROGERSON, B.A. (Alberta)

1974, M.A. (English) (Toronto) 1977, LL.B.

(Toronto) 1982, LL.M. (Harvard) 1983

Constitutional Law, Family Law

DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, B.A (McGill)

1980, LL.B. (Windsor) 1983, LL.M. (Queen’s)

1993

Canadian Federalism, the Charter of Rights,

Canadian Constitutional History, and

Constitutionalism and Globalization

AYELET SHACHAR, B.A. (summa cum

laude) (Tel Aviv University) 1993, LL.B. (Tel Aviv

University) 1993, LL.M. (Yale) 1995, J.S.D.

(Yale) 1997

Group Rights and Gender Equality, Citizenship

Theory and Immigration Law, Law and Religion,

Family Law, Contemporary Political Theory, and

Civil Procedure

MARTHA SHAFFER, A.B. (Harvard)

1983, LL.B. (Toronto) 1987, LL.M. (Harvard)

1990

Criminal Law, Family Law and Equality Issues

LORNE SOSSIN, B.A. (McGill) 1985, M.A.

(Exeter) 1986, LL.B. (Osgoode) 1992, Ph.D.

(Toronto) 1993 LL.M. (Columbia) 1995, S.J.D

(Columbia) 1999

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Legal

Process/Civil Procedure, Judicial Process,

Social Policy, Democratic Administration, and

Jewish Law

SIMON STERN, B.A (Yale) , Ph.D

(UC Berkeley) 1999, LLB (Yale) 2002

Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure, Law

and Literature, Law and Cognitive Psychology

and Sexuality and the Law

HAMISH STEWART, B.A. (Toronto) 1983,

Ph.D. (Harvard) 1989, LL.B. (Toronto) 1992

Criminal Law, Evidence, Contract Law, Legal

Theory, and Economic Methodology

MICHAEL J. TREBILCOCK, LL.B. (New

Zealand) 1961, LL.M. (Adelaide) 1962,

University Professor

Law and Economics, International Trade and

Contract and Commercial Law

CATHERINE VALCKE, LL.B. (Civil Law)

(Sherbrooke) 1985, LL.B. (Common Law) (Toronto)

1988, LL.M. (Chicago) 1989; S.J.D. (Columbia) 1997

Contracts, Comparative Law, Legal Theory,

Legal Education

STEPHEN M. WADDAMS, B.A. (Toronto)

1963, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1969, 1993, LL.B.

(Toronto) 1967, LL.M., S.J.D. (Michigan) 1968,

1972, F.R.S.C.

Contract Law, the Law of Damages

ARNOLD WEINRIB, B.A. (Toronto) 1962,

LL.B. (Toronto) 1965, LL.M. (Harvard) (1966)

Property, Community Planning and Taxation

ERNEST J. WEINRIB, B.A. (Toronto)

1965, Ph.D. (Classics) (Harvard) 1968, LL.B.

(Toronto) 1972

Tort Law and Legal Theory

LORRAINE E. WEINRIB, B.A. (York)

1969, LL.B. (Toronto) 1973, LL.M. (Yale) 1985

The Charter, Constitutional Litigation,

Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional

History, Interpretation and Theory

(L-R): Professors Audrey Macklin, Nehal Bhuta, Karen Knop, Angela Fernandez and Ed Iacobucci

Professor Brenda Cossman


“I am very pleased with my choice of the Faculty of

Law, at the University of Toronto. Faculty members

are global leaders in their respective fields. They are

friendly, accessible, and their scholarship is cutting

edge. When I ultimately finish my graduate studies,

I know my experience here will have been invaluable.”

Luis Campos (United States), LLM 2006 and SJD Candidate




OPEN AWARDSFaculty of Law Fellowships are worth up to $15,000 plus academ-

ic tuition. They are made available from the faculty to outstand-

ing graduate students in financial need who show high intellec-

tual promise.

Connaught Scholarship, awarded by the School of Graduate

Studies, is an entrance scholarship to an international Faculty of

Law graduate student with an outstanding record who is enter-

ing a research-oriented graduate degree program. The Faculty of

Law nominates superior applicants. The value of the award is

$15,000 plus academic tuition.

University of Toronto Fellowships in varying amounts, are

offered by the School of Graduate Studies to graduate students

pursuing thesis intensive graduate degrees. The Faculty of Law

allocates these scholarship funds on the basis of academic merit.

Law Foundation Fellowships are made available from the Law

Foundation of Ontario and are awarded in varying amounts to

outstanding students showing high intellectual promise in either

the LLM or SJD program.

WCG Howland Graduate Fellowship, a gift of the late W.C.G.Howland, is a fellowship valued at $5,000 awarded each year tostudents in either the LLM or SJD program on the basis of aca-demic promise and financial need.

Law Alumni Fellowship of $10,000, made available by theUniversity of Toronto Law Alumni Association, is awarded to astudent of outstanding merit in the LLM or SJD program.

The Houlden & Morawetz Graduate Scholarship is awarded toa graduate student on the basis of financial need and academicexcellence. The Insolvency Institute of Canada established thescholarship with the proceeds of the Lloyd W. Houlden FestschriftDinner organized in January 1998. This award honours JusticeLloyd Houlden and Dr. Carl Morawetz and is the graduate com-plement to the Houlden & Morawetz Bursary, which was estab-lished by friends and admirers in 1996. The value per year will beapproximately $2,500.

Albert S. Abel Graduate Award in the amount of $2,500 in thename of the late Professor Albert Abel is awarded on the basis ofscholarship and financial need to a graduate student in the

In comparison to other top international law schools, the cost involved in obtaining

a graduate law degree at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law is very

reasonable. We offer generous financial support to top candidates, and a range

of open and targeted scholarships to ensure a diversity of students from around

the world. Each year, U of T distributes close to one millon dollars in scholarship

assistance, which, when added to the more than $450,000 that comes from

external scholarships, results in over one million dollars in funding support for

our graduate students.

BELOW IS A LIST OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS FOR WHICH

GRADUATE LAW DEGREE APPLICANTS ARE ELIGIBLE.

Upasana Sharma, LLM 2006

FINANCING YOURGRADUATE EDUCATION



Faculty of Law on the recommendation of the Associate Dean(Graduate Studies). This award is provided from a gift of thefriends and family of the late Albert S. Abel and funds made avail-able by the Faculty of Law.

The Raoul Wallenberg Graduate Scholarship, valued at approx-imately $1,000, is the gift of an anonymous donor in recognitionof the heroic efforts of the celebrated Swedish diplomat whosehumanity and courage saved many thousands of Jewish lives inHungary during World War II.

The Bernard Chernos Ontario Graduate Scholarship, an awardestablished by a gift from Martin Teplitsky, Q.C. and BeverlyChernos in the memory of Bernard Chernos, Q.C. ’57. The Ministryof Education and Training and the University of Toronto jointlycontributes toward the award of $15,000.

AWARDS TARGETED FOR SPECIFICAREAS OR PROGRAMSGraduate Fellowships in Innovation Law and Policy, estab-lished through an endowment fund by the Ontario Research andDevelopment Challenge Fund, and administered by the Centrefor Innovation Law and Policy. Graduate Fellowships of up to$25,000 each are awarded each year to outstanding LLM and SJD candidates writing theses in this broad field of study. Fellows willbe expected to make a significant contribution to the activities ofthe Centre. The Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) determinesrecipients of Centre Fellowships and award amounts based on academic promise.

Graduate Scholarships in Reproductive Health are designed topermit law graduates from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America,the Caribbean, Asia or Central and Eastern Europe who have aninterest in human rights and women’s health in their own coun-tries to undertake advanced research and study in this emergingfield of law.

The Scholarship is designed to enable students to explore thelegal and ethical issues in reproductive and sexual health andcovers tuition and incidental fees, travel expenses and a stipendof $12,000 for living expenses and books. After completion of thescholarship, students must return to their home country andreside there for a minimum of two years. While at U of T, studentsare expected to make a significant contribution to the activitiesof the faculty’s Inter-national Programme on Reproductive andSexual Rights, including development of the Women’s HumanRights Resources website.

Scholarships in Women’s Rights and Reproductive Healthfrom Developing Southern Countries and Countries inTransition, endowed by an anonymous donor to establish agraduate fellowship in women’s rights and reproductive healthfor qualified candidates from developing Southern countries andcountries in transition. Scholarships to cover tuition and a livingstipend will be distributed to one or more students.

Graduate Scholarships in Women’s Rights, in varying amounts,are open to law graduates from Africa, Central or South America,the Middle East, East Asia or South East Asia who have an interestin human rights of women to undertake advanced research andstudy in this area of law. Students will be expected to make a sig-nificant contribution to the activities of the Faculty’s Women’sHuman Rights Resources website by providing the website withan annotated bibliography based on their research, and agreeingto facilitate collaboration between organizations/institutions intheir home country and the website. Other activities couldinclude assisting with curriculum development, legal researchand legal advisory and advocacy work related to women’s humanrights. After completion of the Fellowship, Fellows must return totheir home country and reside there for a minimum of two years.

Graduate Scholarships in Health Law and Policy, provided bythe Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) to selectedFaculty of Law graduates who are pursuing graduate research

Last year, the Faculty of Law

distributed over $1 million

in targeted and general law

scholarships to deserving grad-

uate students. An additional

$460,000 was secured from

competitive external awards

such as the Ontario Graduate

Scholarships, Government of

Canada awards and common-

wealth scholarships.



“I have lived, worked and studied in many different places

in my life. But I have never met so many scholars and

colleagues who pursue their scholarship with so much

passion, commitment and determination. For me, the

people at U of T law school were the most interesting

part of a truly inspiring year.”

Clemens Kerle (Austria), LLM 2006


“At the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, I

had the privilege of attending numerous lectures

by internationally renowned scholars and jurists.

My professors were among the most brilliant in

North America, yet they were always accessible

and provided a relaxed forum where we were

encouraged to speak our minds and exchange

ideas. I also benefited from the diversity of the

student body and made friends with people from

around the world. My time at U of T has been

personally and academically enriching and I will

never forget it.”

Ayanna Burke (West Indies), LLM 2006



“The LLM program at the University of Toronto has exceeded

all my expectations. The diversity of subjects covered through

worshops and courses in the program is very extensive.

Professors are leading academics and yet very approachable.

They are always more than willing to share their expertise and

time with students. Another great aspect of my year at U of T

was the group of students I met in the LLM program. The

fact that we are from very different parts of the world deeply

enriched our academic discussions. This year was an incredibly

enriching and memorable experience.”


100% of our SJD students in need

are offered scholarships of tuition

plus a minimum of $15,000 for

three years of doctoral studies.

Most students complete their

studies in three or four years.

and writing in the area of health law and policy. The CIHR traininggrants provide support for an innovative interdisciplinary pro-gram that facilitates interactions between students and faculty ina number of different disciplines in three different institutions(Toronto, Dalhousie and Alberta).

Graduate Fellowships in Capital Markets Research, valued up to$18,000, will be awarded to students who have demonstrated aninterest in the regulation of capital markets, including financial insti-tution regulation, securities regulation and corporate governance.

Arthur Scace Graduate Fellowship in Tax Law, valued at$15,000 to be awarded each year to a graduate student studyingtax law, on the basis of financial need and academic excellence.This generous fellowship was made available by a donation fromArthur and Susan Scace.

Robert Law Fellowship in Legal Ethics, valued at approximately$11,000, was a gift from Canadian Tire and Cassels Brock &Blackwell in honour of Mr. Robert Law, who was Vice Presidentand General Counsel at Canadian Tire for 43 years and has beenassociated with the firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell for over 45years. It is to be awarded annually to a graduate student or stu-dents undertaking course work or research related to legal ethicsand the legal profession. Financial need and academic merit willbe considered.

June Callwood Program in Aboriginal Law was establishedfrom a generous donation by an anonymous donor. Half of theannual funds (approximately $20,000) will be made available tosupport scholarships for Aboriginal graduate students withdemonstrated financial need.

The Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in CanadianConstitutional Law will be awarded annually to a student ofproven academic excellence enrolled in the LL.M or SJ.D. pro-gramme who shows promise of completing his/her degree.The subject of the thesis should be Canadian constitutional law,focusing on any past, present or contemplated issue of signifi-cance to Canadian society. The Fellowship, in the approximateamount of $10,000 consists of annual income from an endow-ment fund established by Mrs. Strauss, matched by the Universityof Toronto.

The Nathan Strauss Q.C Graduate Fellowship in InternationalLaw and Intellectual Property, established by Lilly OffenbachStrauss in memory of her late husband, will be awarded annuallyto a LL.M. or SJ.D student studying international law. Candidatesare expected to indicate the relevance of their study in theCanadian context. The Fellowship, The thesis subject can focuson any significant past, present or contemplated issue relating tointellectual property and should include a discussion of its rele-vance to Canadian society. The Fellowship, in the approximate

Oscar Cabrera (Venezuela), LLM 2006



If you are interested in financial assistance

from the University of Toronto, applications

and all supporting documentation for

admission must be submitted prior to

February 1st of the year of an intended

September enrolment.

ESTIMATED LIVING EXPENSES(8 months – excluding tuition and travel)

EXTERNAL FINANCIAL SUPPORTMany outside agencies offer awards to graduate students.Keep in mind that deadlines can be very early, often inOctober or November of the year preceding a Septemberenrolment.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (www.sshrc.ca)DEADLINE: November preceding enrolment (Canadiancitizens and permanent residents only)

Viscount Bennett Awards(www.cba.org/awards/viscount_bennett)DEADLINE: November preceding enrolment (Canadian citizens only)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship Programme(http://osap.gov.on.ca/eng/not_secure/OGS.htm)DEADLINE: October preceding enrolment (Ontario residents only)

TUITION Graduate academic fees for full-time graduate students in 2008-09 are expected to be approximately $6,500 fordomestic students and $20,000 for international students.This does not include incidental fees and health fees.

ESTIMATED LIVING EXPENSESThe cost of living in Toronto is high. Your choice of accom-modation is a major factor in determining total livingexpenses. The cost of other necessities varies from studentto student depending on individual preference. The following is therefore a guideline for the minimumamount of funds required for a single student for 12months, excluding tuition and travel to Toronto.

DEADLINESThe deadline for submitting an application is February 1, 2008. Applications can be downloaded from www.law.utoronto.ca or obtained by [email protected]

Board & Lodging $ 9,000.00

Living expenses 3,000.00

Books 1,000.00

Health Insurance 700.00

Subtotal $ 13,700.00

amount of $6000, consists of annual income from anendowment fund established by Mrs. Strauss, matchedby the University of Toronto under the GSEF pro-gramme.

The Nathan Strauss Fellowships have been establishedby Lilly Offenbach Strauss to honour the memory ofher late husband, Nathan Strauss, a Life Bencher of theLaw Society of Upper Canada, frequently acclaimed asa model lawyer, admired for exemplary professionalconduct which combined legal expertise with wisecounsel and uncompromising insistence on integrityand fairness in legal practice.

Lucille Norris Graduate Scholarship, a fellowshipdonated by Thomas Dunn (1968) in the amount of$2,500 in memory of Lucille Norris that is awarded to astudent undertaking graduate work in the area ofmedical legal studies.

Naomi Overend Fellowship in Human Rights,established by a generous gift from Ellen Anderson, agraduate of the Faculty of Law (LLB 1996, LLM 1998,SJD 2000) in honour of Naomi Overend, a 1985 gradu-

ate of the Faculty of Law, for her work in the promotionof human rights. This fellowship of approximately$1,000 is to be awarded annually to a full-time student in the graduate program with a focus onhuman rights. Students may hold more than one scholarship.

The John Stransman Graduate Fellowship in Lawand Economics is awarded annually to a graduate student or students working in the area of law andeconomics on the basis of financial need and academicexcellence. The value of the award(s) is approximately$25,000.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Warren K. Winkler GraduateFellowship in International Human Rights will beawarded annually to one graduate student working inthe area of international human rights on the basis offinancial need and academic excellence. The value ofthe award is approximately $6,000.


CAREER DEVELOPMENT OFFICEThe CDO office is staffed with four full-time professionals,including a Graduate Studies Program Career Advisor. TheOffice is equipped to assist all Faculty of Law students,including graduate students, with job-seeking and careerplanning. More information may be found on our web siteat www.law.utoronto.ca.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTREThe International Student Centre, located at corner of St.George and College streets, is the social and administrativecentre for the almost 4000 international students at U of T.

Tel: 416-978-2564; Fax: 416-978-4090;Email: [email protected];www.library.utoronto.ca/isc

HOUSINGFull-time single students regis-tered at the Faculty of Law areeligible to live at the GraduateHouse residence, located at thecorner of Harbord Street andSpadina Road on the west sideof campus. Beyond GraduateHouse there is a variety of hous-ing options provided at U of T.

For information on type, availability and cost, please contact:

University of Toronto Housing ServiceKoffler Student Services Centre214 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2Z9Tel: 416-978-8045; Fax: 416-978-1616Email: [email protected] www.library.utoronto.ca/StudentHousing

THE GRADUATE LAW STUDENTSASSOCIATIONThe Graduate Law Students Association (GLSA) representsall students enrolled in the Graduate Program at theUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Law. The object of the GLSAis to assist graduate students in their dealings with theFaculty and to obtain representation for students on various committees and organizations that pertain to the graduatelaw program. The GLSA strives to encourage and facilitateco-operation and understanding among students and facul-ty in order to improve the research activities and education-al experiences of all graduate law students at the Universityof Toronto.

MASSEY COLLEGEMassey College, a graduate college within U of T, offers resi-dential and non-residential fellowships to outstandinggraduate and professional students. For more information,contact the college registrar at 416-978-2891, or visit thecollege website: www.utoronto.ca/massey.

HART HOUSE AND ATHLETICCENTREHart House, located at the centre of campus, is U of T’s cultural, recreational, and athletic meeting place. U of T students are automatic members of Hart House and canparticipate in a large number of clubs and programs, as wellas use the athletic facilities, reading rooms and food servic-es. The Athletic Centre is on the west side of campus, acrossfrom the Graduate House residence, and provides gyms, fit-ness facilities, courts, and pools for student use. Intramuralathletic programs are based here, as are most of U of T’sintercollegiate teams.

The University of Toronto and the Faculty of Law provide a wealth of student services.

Listed below are some of the most important of these services for graduate students.

Please call or consult the appropriate offices for more information.

Ivana Kadic, Graduate Students Career Advisor

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