496 Legal History (Muir)

LAW496

Legal History: Canadian Constitutional History (the game course)

(Muir)

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Instructor(s): Professor James Muir

Course credit: 3

Method of presentation: Other

METHOD OF EVALUATION

Participation 40%

Oral Presentations: 15% 

Variety of Written work: 45%

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Could you do a better job writing the constitution? Here is your chance. Through two games students will have the opportunity to renegotiate Confederation and rewrite the Charter. the course begins with background to the 1860s. Students are then assigned to represent specific ‘fathers of confederation’ and we run a simulation of the Quebec meeting of October 1864. We conclude with a historic moot. The second half of the course begins with background to 1982. Then teams are created representing provinces, the federal government, and NGOs to simulate negotiations between the mid-1970s and 1981 leading to the 1982 patriation. The course ends with a second moot. There will be prizes.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

This course will not be offered in 2024-2025.

Description updated 2023-24. Please contact the instructor for any specific questions you may have related to this particular course section.

REQUIRED TEXTS (IF ANY):

None