Faculty of Law
2024-2025 Course Descriptions
Faculty of Law
2024-2025 Course Descriptions
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Visit the Academic Resources page to view:
Questions? Email law.curriculum@ualberta.ca.
The following list includes historic sections.
Not all listed sections are available in the current academic year.
450 Administrative Law
Kennedy // Lewans // Plester & Gunther // Stam // Woodley
451 Corporations
Akbari // Dzah // F Majekolagbe // Meshel // Stam // Yahya
452 Civil Procedure
Kennedy // Lund // Pratt // Matheson // Molzan // Yiu
453 Evidence
Penney // Sankoff // Schmidt & Sopko // Seaman & Shapka
455 Legal Seminar **VARIABLE TOPIC COURSE**
LAW455 fulfils the LAW455/486/496 compulsory course requirement.
Housing, Homelessness & Law (Lund)
Law, Social Justice & Ethics (Fynn Bruey)
Race, (Im)migration & Citizenship Law (Fynn Bruey)
Women, Law & Social Change (Tomaszewski/Miller)
456 Professionalism and Ethics [formerly Professional Responsibility]
Acorn // Allen // Besuijen & Christensen-Moore (ITLP only)// Couillard // Gallagher & Greschner // Hawes // Kash // Levine // McMann // Pearl // Photinopoulos // Yahya // Yiu
486 Jurisprudence **VARIABLE TOPIC COURSE**
LAW486 fulfils the LAW455/486/496 compulsory course requirement.
Advanced Legal Research & Writing (Hutchison)
Critical Perspectives on Race & the Law (Bains)
Environment, Animals & the Law (Eisen)
Equality & Section 15 (Nye)
Feminist Legal Theory (Eisen)
Indigenous Law: Foundations & Methods (Friedland)
An Introduction to Law & Economics (Kaplinsky)
Jurisprudence (Lewans)
Law & Film (Yahya)
Law & Political Economy (Akbari)
Law & Science (Ogbogu)
Legal Approaches to Sexual Violence (Bailer)
Practice & Theory in Legal Scholarship (Muir)
Property Rights (Lavoie)
Queering Law (Meade-Clift)
The Rule of Law (Nye)
Socio-legal Approaches to Law (Pavlich)
Tax, Justice & Society (Akbari)
Transgender People & the Law (Ashley)
496 Legal History
LAW496 fulfils the LAW455/486/496 compulsory course requirement.
501 Biotechnology Policy
502 Construction Law
503 Employment Law
504 Taxation
505 Private International Law
506 Public International Law
Harrington // Reif
507 Canadian Human Rights Law
509 Mediation Advocacy
511 Remedies
512 Techniques in Negotiation
514 Judgment Enforcement
515 International Dispute Settlement
516 Dispute Resolution
517 Musicians & the Law
518 Intellectual Property
Hutchison // F Majekolagbe // McDonald & Yoo
519 Insurance Law
520 Criminal Procedure
522 Sentencing
524 Family Law
Friedland // Johnson, Baretta & Collins // Johnson & MacKenzie
526 Independent Research Paper
Description. Download form from Academic Resources page
530 Health Care Ethics and the Law
531 Law & Medicine
532 Constitutional Litigation
533 Advanced Problems in Constitutional Law
538 Alberta Law Review
539 Courts Clerkship
540 Land Titles
543 Energy Law
544 Utilities Law (new course number starting 2025-26; offered as 599 in Winter 2025)
546 Interviewing & Counselling
550 Accounting for Lawyers
553 Water Law
555 Labour Law
556 Labour Arbitration
557 International Human Rights Law
Fynn Bruey // Harrington // Reif // Szigeti
558 Animals & the Law
559 Environmental Law
561 International Criminal Law
Harrington // Purser
565 International Business Transactions
580 Trusts
582 Wills & Administration
584 Bankruptcy & Insolvency
585 Commercial Transactions
587 Personal Property Security Law
588 Citizenship, Immigration & Refugee Law
589 Specialized Legal Topics **VARIABLE TOPIC COURSE**
Academic Supervised Internship
Advanced Civil Procedure (Lund & Nanda)
Alberta Utilities Commission Internship
Climate Change Law & Practice (Majekolagbe, A)
Early Career Lawyering: Skills, Issues & Perspectives (Cembrowski & Chalaturnyk)
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (Majekolagbe, F)
Low Income Individuals & the Law (Lund & Weaver)
Mental Health & the Law Seminar (Qureshi)
Oceans Law & Policy (Jefferies) - Spring intensive
Practical Persuasive Writing (Priemaza)
Prison Law (Hart-Dowhun & Haas)
Wahkotowin Intensive: Miyowîcêhtowin Principles and Practice (Friedland) - Summer intensive
Wrongful Convictions (Beresh)
590 Indigenous Peoples & Canadian Law
Bailer // Dunn // Gimenez // Pearl
591 The TRC, Law, Justice & Reconciliation
592 Advanced Criminal Law
593 International Environmental Law
594 Gladue Principles Seminar
596 Advanced Torts
598 Moot Court Competition
599 Seminars on Legal Topics **VARIABLE TOPIC COURSE**
Accounting For Lawyers (Sprysak)
Advanced Administrative Law: Judicial Review (Redman)
Advanced Civil Procedure (Kennedy)
Advanced Criminal Law (Bottos)
Advanced Criminal Trial Advocacy (Spark, Tate & Steeves)
Advanced Family Law (Cox & Proudman)
Advanced Issues in Criminal Law Defence: Sexual Assault & Related Offences (Sankoff)
Appellate Practice & Procedure (McGuire & LeClair)
Arbitration (Meshel)
Canadian Race, Refugee, and (Im)Migration Law in International Context (Fynn Bruey)
Children & the Law (Ashley)
Climate Change Law (Majekolagbe, A)
Condominium Law (Gibson)
Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions (Maharaj & Jiang)
Criminal Appellate Practice & Procedure (Sankoff)
Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation (Eisen)
Endangered Species Law (Jefferies)
Energy and Environmental Law & Policy (Leach)
Entrepreneurial Law (Majekolagbe, F)
Freedom of Expression & Public Interest (Hutchison)
Indigenous Jurisdiction & Constitutional Pluralism (Gimenez & Lewans)
International Law & Global Corporations (Dzah)
Introduction to Language Rights (Kingston)
Law & Policing (Allan)
Law & Religion (Hart)
Medical Malpractice Law (Miller & Jomha)
Methods of Indigenous Legal Engagement (Pearl)
Métis Law & the Canadian State (Chartrand)
Military Law (King & MacPherson)
Oceans Law & Policy (Jefferies)
Public Health Law (Ogbogu)
Public Law Advocacy (Fernando & Kallal)
Public Law & Practice (Stam)
Utilities Law (Leach)
Women Law & Social Change (Miller & Tomaszewski)
Wrongful Convictions (Ampleman-Tremblay)
601 Corporate Reorganization & Restructuring
602 Family Law Practice Issues
603 International Taxation
608 Advocacy
613 Corporate Securities
Liston & May // Meshel // Wilson
640 Real Estate Transactions
645 Statutory Interpretation
651 Municipal & Planning Law
660 Estate Planning
665 Corporate Taxation
675 Advanced Evidence
680 Unjust Enrichment
696 Legal Scholarship (Advanced LRW) - Graduate students only
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