Law

Law: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Law

Degree Programs

Law

LLM

  • Concentrations:
    • Business Law;
    • Criminal Law;
    • Health Law, Ethics and Policy;
    • Legal Theory
  • Dual Degree Programs:
    • LLB (National University of Singapore) / LLM (University of Toronto);
    • LLB (Torcuato Di Tella University) / LLM (University of Toronto);
    • LLB (Tsinghua University) / LLM (University of Toronto); (admissions have been administratively suspended)
    • LLM (University of Toronto) / JM (Tsinghua University); (admissions have been administratively suspended)
    • LLM (University of Toronto) / LLM (Tsinghua University) (admissions have been administratively suspended)

MSL

SJD

Global Professional Law

GPLLM

  • Concentrations:
    • Business Law;
    • Canadian Law in a Global Context;
    • Innovation, Law and Technology

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

The international reputation of the law school’s faculty, their breadth of interests and approaches, and the intensive intellectual atmosphere, create outstanding opportunities for graduate students pursuing advanced degrees.

Law faculty members are some of the finest doctrinal and theoretical legal scholars in public and private law. The diversity of research interests amongst the faculty allows them to supervise graduate research in almost all areas of legal scholarship. The pluralistic academic community invites a variety of approaches to legal scholarship including, but not limited to, feminism and the law, law and economics, legal history, law and society, analytical jurisprudence, and critical legal theory. Over a third of the faculty are cross-appointed to other units — a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship which encourages students to position their legal research within a broader, interdisciplinary context.

Strong relationships with faculty members are forged by the supervisory relationship, as well as through numerous informal opportunities to interact with faculty. The many workshops, lecture series, seminars and roundtables foster a dynamic intellectual environment. Through the Distinguished Visiting Faculty program, students have the opportunity to meet with and learn from some of the world’s finest legal scholars.

In addition to the formal study program, graduate students can participate in internships through Pro Bono Students Canada and the International Human Rights Program.

Inquiries should be directed to the Graduate Program Coordinator, Graduate Program, Faculty of Law at the address below.

Contact and Address

LLM, MSL, and SJD Program Inquiries

Web: www.law.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/graduate-programs
Email: gradadmissions.law@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-0213

University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Graduate Programs
Falconer Hall
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5

GPLLM Program Inquiries

Web: gpllm.law.utoronto.ca
Email: admissions.gpllm@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 946-7384

University of Toronto Faculty of Law
GPLLM Program
Falconer Hall
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5

Law: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Alarie, Benjamin - LLB, AB, LLM, MA, Osler Chair in Business Law
Anand, Anita - BA, LLB, MA, LLM
Austin, Lisa - BA, BSc, LLB, MA, Chair in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property
Benson, Peter - LLB, LLM, PhD
Brunnée, Jutta - LLM, SJD, James Marshall Tory Dean's Chair (Dean)
Chapman, Bruce - BA, LLB, PhD
Chiao, Vincent - BA, JD, PhD
Cossman, Brenda - LLB, LLM, Goodman/Schipper Chair
Dawood, Yasmin - BA, JD, MA, PhD
Drassinower, Abraham - BPhil, LLB, MA, PhD
Dubber, Markus - AB, JD
Duggan, Anthony - BA, LLB, LLM, LLD
Dyzenhaus, David - BA, LLB, DPhil
Emon, Anver - LLB, BA, LLM, MA, PhD, SJD, CRC
Essert, Christopher - BA, LLM, JD, SJD
Fadel, Mohammad - BA, JD, PhD
Fernandez, Angela - LLB, BA, BCL, LLM, MA, SJD
Flood, Colleen - LLB, LLM, SJD
Green, Andrew - LLB, BA, LLM, MA, PhD, Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law
Hadfield, Gillian - BA, JD, PhD, Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society
Iacobucci, Edward - LLB, MPH, Toronto Stock Exchange Chair in Capital Markets
Katz, Ariel - LLB, LLM, SJD
Katz, Larissa - BA, LLB, LLM, SJD, CRC (Associate Dean, Graduate Program)
Langille, Brian A - LLB, BCL, BA
Lee, Ian - LLB, BCom, LLM
Lemmens, Trudo - LLM, DCL, Dr. William M. Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy
Macintosh, Jeffrey - BSc, LLB, LLM
Macklem, Patrick - BA, LLB, LLM
Macklin, Audrey - BSc, LLB, LLM
Moran, Mayo - BA, LLB, LLM, SJD
Moreau, Sophia - BA, BPhil, JD, PhD
Morgan, Edward - LLB, BA, LLM
Niblett, Anthony - BCom, PhD, CRC
Phillips, James - LLB, MA, PhD
Prado, Mariana - LLB, LLM, SJD, William C. Graham Chair in International Law and Development
Reaume, Denise - BA, LLB, BCL
Ripstein, Arthur S. - BA, MA, LLM, PhD, Howard Beck, Q.C. Chair
Rittich, Kerry - BAMus, LLB, SJD
Roach, Kent - BA, LLB, LLM
Rogerson, Carol - BA, LLB, MA, LLM
Schneiderman, David - BA, LLB, LLM
Shachar, Ayelet - LLB, BA, LLM, SJD
Shaffer, Martha - LLB, LLM, MAcct
Stacey, Richard - LLB, BA, SJD
Stern, Simon - BA, JD, PhD, Chair in Electronic Commerce
Stewart, Hamish - BA, LLB, MA, PhD
Su, Anna - JD, LLM, SJD
Thorburn, Malcolm - BA, JD, MA, LLM, SJD
Trebilcock, Michael - LLB, LLM
Valcke, Catherine - BCL, LLB, LLM, SJD
Valverde, Mariana - BA, MA, PhD, FRSC
Weinrib, Ernest - BA, LLB, PhD
Weinrib, Lorraine - BA, LLB, LLM
Yoon, Albert - BA, LLB, MA, PhD, Chair in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property

Members Emeriti

Dickens, Bernard - LLB, LLM, PhD
Friedland, Martin - BCom, LLB, PhD

Associate Members

Hirschl, Ran - BA, LLB, MA, MPH, PhD, CRC
Sanderson, Douglas - BA, JD, LLM, J. Robert S. Prichard and Ann E. Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy

Law: Law LLM, MSL, SJD Courses

Course Code Course Title
LAW1000H
Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship
LAW2001H
Advanced Contracts: The Law of Contractual Interpretation
LAW2003H
Advanced Labour Law: Bargaining Rights and Following Rights in a Global Economy
LAW2005H
The Art of the Deal
LAW2007H
Bankruptcy Law
LAW2007Y Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
LAW2008H
Business Organizations
LAW2009Y
Canadian Income Tax Law
LAW2011H
Climate Change Law
LAW2013H
Competition Law and Intellectual Property
LAW2014H
Competition Policy
LAW2015H
Contested Corporate Transactions
LAW2017Y
Corporate Income Tax
LAW2019H
Corporations, Individuals, and the State
LAW2021H
Economic and Social Regulation
LAW2022H
Entertainment Law
LAW2023H
Environmental Law
LAW2024Y
Evidence
LAW2035H
International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
LAW2037H
International Taxation
LAW2038H
International Trade Regulation
LAW2039H
Investment and Growth in Emerging Markets
LAW2040Y
Labour and Employment Law
LAW2046H
Negotiation
LAW2047H
Patent and Trade Secrets Law
LAW2048H
New Directions in Energy Regulation
LAW2051H
Real Estate Law
LAW2053Y
Secured Transactions
LAW2059H
Venture Capital Financing
LAW2060H
Workshop: Innovation Law and Policy
LAW2062H
Applied Corporate Law
LAW2064H
Fundamental Themes in Securities Litigation Practice
LAW2066H
Law of International Business and Finance Transactions
LAW2070Y
Copyright, Trademark, and Patent
LAW2072H Data and Governance
LAW2075H Intensive Course: Consumer Contracts in the Information Society: A Comparative Overview
LAW2076H Securities Litigation: The Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law
LAW2086H Intensive Course: AI and Digital Transformation for Law and Business
LAW3003H
Advanced Constitutional Law: Comparative Remedial and Security Issues
LAW3005H
Advanced Criminal Procedure and Charter Issues
LAW3013Y
Criminal Procedure
LAW3017H
Financial Crimes
LAW3025H
Sentencing and Penal Policy
LAW3027H
Wrongful Convictions
LAW3028H
Youth Criminal Justice
LAW3029H
Crime and Punishment: Mandatory Minimums, the Death Penalty, and Other Current Debates
LAW3031H
Perspectives on Crime and Law
LAW3034H Homelessness
LAW3035H Intensive Course: Punishing Genocide: An Introduction to International Criminal Law
LAW3037H Intensive Course: Laws of Violence: Crime, War, Policing, Punishment
LAW3038H Introduction to International Criminal Law
LAW4001H
Law and Business in a Global Economy
LAW4002H
Comparative Corporate Governance
LAW4003H
Securities Regulation and Corporate Finance
LAW4004H
Mergers and Acquisitions
LAW4005H
Canadian and Cross-Border Issues in Corporate Tax
LAW4007H
Canadian Administrative Law
LAW4008H
Canadian Constitutional Law
LAW4009H
Canadian Criminal Law
LAW4010H
Foundations of Canadian Law
LAW4011H
Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships
LAW4012H
Intellectual Property Law
LAW4013H
Economic and Social Regulation and Competition Law
LAW4014H
International Insolvency Law
LAW4015H
Organization of Transactional Legal Practice
LAW4016H
Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics, and the Law
LAW4017H
Professional Responsibility
LAW4018H
Foundations of Legal Theory
LAW4019H
Anti-Corruption Law: International, Domestic, and Practical Perspectives
LAW5003H
Authorship and Copyright: Theory and History
LAW5004H
Civil Law
LAW5005H
Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics
LAW5008H
Crime and Punishment
LAW5020H
Trademark Theory
LAW5024H
Judgement in Law and Politics
LAW5025H
Kant's Philosophy of Law
LAW5027H
Law and Literature
LAW5030H
Legal Archaeology: Studies in Cases in Context
LAW5037H
Religion and the Liberal State: The Case of Islam
LAW5043H
Theory of Contract Law
LAW5044H
Theory of Private Law: Selected Topics and Texts
LAW5045H
Critical Analysis of Law Workshop
LAW5047H
Law and Economics Workshop Seminar
LAW5048H
From Patriarchy to Equal Citizenship
LAW5049H
History and Theory of International Law
LAW5051H
Workshop: Legal History Seminar
LAW5057H John Rawls' Theory of Justice: An Introduction
LAW5058H Law, Religion, and Democracy
LAW5059H Philosophical Approaches to Equality and Discrimination
LAW5060H Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age
LAW5075H Hegel's Legal Philosophy
LAW5076H Intensive Course: Law, Literature, Liberalism, and Beyond
LAW5077H Intensive Course: The Rule and the Exception
LAW5078H The Politics of Legal Space
LAW5079H Persons and Bodies
LAW6001H
Contemporary Issues in Health Law and Policy
LAW6003Y
Health Law and Bioethics
LAW6006H
Public Health Law
LAW6013H
Law and Policy of Biotechnology
LAW6019H
Privacy Law
LAW6021H
Women's Rights in Transnational Law
LAW6023H
International Human Rights Law
LAW6025H
Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships
LAW6026H
Law, Institutions, and Development
LAW6029Y
International Human Rights Clinic
LAW6030H
Law of Mental Health
LAW6042H Human Rights and Their Critics
LAW6045H Intensive Course: Pandemics and the Law
LAW7000Y
Securities Regulation
LAW7003Y
Administrative Law
LAW7006H
Advanced Torts
LAW7007H
Tax Law and Policy Workshop
LAW7008H
Private International Law
LAW7012H
Community Planning
LAW7018Y
Family Law
LAW7019H
Finance and Accounting in Business Law
LAW7020H
Introduction to Animal Law
LAW7021H
Sports Law
LAW7027H
Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China
LAW7030H
Issues in Aboriginal Law and Policy
LAW7033H
Perspectives on Civil Litigation, Procedure, and Professionalism
LAW7036H
Foreign Affairs and the Canadian Constitution
LAW7038H
Advanced Family Law: Resolving Family Law Case
LAW7040H
Constitutional Law of the U.S.
LAW7046H
Freedom of Expression and Press
LAW7049H
Legal Ethics
LAW7051H
Media and Defamation Law
LAW7052Y
Aboriginal Peoples and Canadian Law
LAW7053H
Intensive Course: Who Belongs? Dilemmas of Citizenship and Immigration
LAW7054H
Copyright Law
LAW7058H
Canadian Legal Methods and Writing
LAW7063H
Statutes and Statutory Interpretation
LAW7064H
Adhesion Contracts: The Perils of Clicking "I Agree"
LAW7066H
Canadian Migration Law
LAW7070H
Economic Analysis of Law
LAW7071H
Youth and the Law
LAW7073H
Student Scholarship Workshop
LAW7076H
Refugee Law
LAW7081H
Foundations of Legal Theory
LAW7085H
Capstone Course: the Role of the Judge
LAW7086H
Refugee Rights
LAW7094Y
Public International Law
LAW7095H Indigenous Law in Context: Intensive
LAW7103H Appeals: Principles and Practice
LAW7104H Indigenous Legal Traditions and the Imperial Response
LAW7105H Indigenous People and Canadian Courts: Advocacy, Evidentiary, and Ethical Issues
LAW7109H Intensive Course: Comparative Constitutional Law of Free Expression
LAW7110H Intensive Course: Constitutional Design in Post Conflict Democracies
LAW7111H Intensive Course: Feminisms and Pornography, c 1975-1995
LAW7114H The Legal Profession in Popular Culture
LAW7115H Intensive Course: snuw’yulh: Indigenous Legal Traditions in the Coast Salish World
LAW7116H Intensive Course: The Rabbinic Idea of Law
LAW7120H Intensive Course: Anishinaabe Law in Toronto: Understanding Constitutionalism in Context
LAW7135H Intensive Course: The Law as a Conversation Among Equals
LAW7136H Intensive Course: Law and Visual Culture
LAW7137H Intensive Course: Kayanerenkó:wa, the Haudenosaunee Law of Peace
LAW7138H Intensive Course: Lawyering for Social Change
LAW7155H Advanced Property
LAW7156H Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
LAW7157H Intensive Course: Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy
LAW7158H Intensive Course: Constitutionalism After AI
LAW7159H Intensive Course: Indigenous Laws and Jurisdiction Over Children and Families
LAW7160H Intensive Course: Lawyering for Social Change
LAW7161H Intensive Course: Reproductive Rights and Justice
LAW7162H Restitution
LAW7163H Intensive Course: Revisiting the Distinction Between Fact and Law: Colonial Legislation, Judicial Interpretation, and Indigenous Nations
LAW7164H Intensive Course: Transnational Labour Law
LAW7165H Introduction to Cybersecurity Law
LAW7166H New Technologies and International Law
LAW7167H The Administrative State in Practice
LAW7168H Intensive Course: Digitization of Money and Finance: A Systemic Perspective
LAW7169H China’s Judicial System from the Perspective of Judicial Politics
LAW7572H LLM Seminar
LAW8000Y
Thesis
LAW8001H
Directed Research Program (Graduate Students Only)
CHL5704H
International Human Rights Law and Global Health: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice
HAD5765H
Case Studies in Health Policy
HAD5775H
Competition, Cooperation, and Strategy in Health Care
HAD6762H
Organization and Management Studies Comprehensive Course
JDM3619H
Digital Media Distribution (Credit/No Credit)

Law: Global Professional Law GPLLM Courses

All courses are offered in modules, each worth 0.75 full-course equivalent (FCE). A module will be approximately four months in length. Courses will be offered during the evening and on the weekend. A large portion of the learning for the modules will take place outside of class through carefully designed reading, assignments, projects, and group study.

Course Code Course Title
LAW4001H Law and Business in a Global Economy
LAW4002H
Comparative Corporate Governance
LAW4003H
Securities Regulation and Corporate Finance
LAW4004H
Mergers and Acquisitions
LAW4005H Canadian and Cross-Border Issues in Corporate Tax
LAW4006H International Dispute Resolution
LAW4007H
Canadian Administrative Law
LAW4008H
Canadian Constitutional Law
LAW4009H
Canadian Criminal Law
LAW4010H Foundations of Canadian Law
LAW4011H Law and Policy of Public Private Partnerships
LAW4012H Intellectual Property Law
LAW4013H Economic and Social Regulation and Competition Law
LAW4014H International Insolvency Law
LAW4015H Organization of Transactional Legal Practice
LAW4016H Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics, and the Law
LAW4017H Professional Responsibility
LAW4018H Foundations of Legal Theory
LAW4019H
Anti-Corruption Law: International, Domestic, and Practical Perspectives
LAW4020H Property Law
LAW4021H Tort Law
LAW4022H Contract Law
LAW4023H Business Organizations
LAW4024H Applied Legal Research and Writing
LAW4026H Introduction to Law and Technology
LAW4027H Legal Technology and Informatics
LAW4028H Blockchain, Digital Assets, and the Law
LAW4030H Financing Technological Innovation
LAW4031H Cybersecurity and Data Protection in a Global Information Economy
LAW4032H Intellectual Property and Strategy
LAW4033H Design Thinking
LAW4034H Launching Technology Ventures
LAW4035H The Internet of Things
LAW4036H Applied Contract Law
LAW4037H Procedural Fairness in Decision Making
LAW4038H Dispute Resolution and Negotiations
LAW4039H Law of the Workplace
LAW4040H Harassment, Discrimination, and the Duty to Accommodate
LAW4041H Health Law
LAW4042H Procurement Law
LAW4043H Privacy and Expression in the Digital Age
LAW4044H Education Law
LAW4045H Executive Compensation
LAW4046H Privacy and Data Governance
LAW4047H The Legal Challenges of Digital Environments
LAW4049H Privacy and Freedom of Information
LAW4050H Perspectives on Leadership and the Law
LAW4051H Evidence Law
LAW4052H Law of Software Development and Commercialization
LAW4053H Law and Regulation of Banks and Financial Institutions
LAW4054H Management and Resolution of Legal Disputes
LAW4055H Disruptive Innovations and Legal Infrastructure
LAW4056H Crisis Management and Leadership
LAW4057H Cannabis Law and Regulation
LAW4058H Competition Law
LAW4059H Digital Trade
LAW4060H Advanced Criminal Law: Financial Crimes in a Global Context
LAW4061H Issues in Tax Law and Policy
LAW4062H Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
LAW4063H Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: A Legal and Practical Study
LAW4064H Negotiation (Credit/No Credit)
LAW4065H The Emergence of LegalTech
LAW4066H Trial Advocacy (Credit/No Credit)
LAW4067H Employment Law