599 Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation (Eisen)

LAW599

Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation

(Dzah)

Prerequisite courses:

Prerequisite for:

Instructor(s): Professor Jessica Eisen

Course credit: 3

Method of presentation: Seminar

METHOD OF EVALUATION

70% Case Comment and 30% Class Participation 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will focus on constitutional cases recently decided or currently before Canadian courts.  Readings may include judicial decisions, advocacy materials (including facta, pleadings, etc.), and legal academic writing. Students will be introduced to the “case comment” as a form of legal writing and will each author their own case comment on a recent constitutional case.  Students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and to make occasional short in-class presentations relating to assigned readings or to their own case-comment-in-progress.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

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)

All readings to be posted on TWEN.