Course Overview
- Unit I: Introduction: Fundamentals of Law
- Unit II: Overview: Assignments, Marking, and Grading
- Unit III: History of Law in Canada (Includes Indigenous Law, Self-Determination)
- Unit IV: Rule of Law: Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Powers in Canada
- Unit V: Constitutional Law, Treaties, and Aboriginal Rights and Law in Canada
- Midterm Week – Fundamentals of Law Mid-Term Exam
- Unit VI: Criminal Law, Civil Law, and Regulatory Law
- Unit VII: Labour Law, Forestry, Mining, Fishing, and other Resources
- Unit VIII: Family Law
- Final Week – Applications of Law Final Exam
Course Outline
Download the course outline here.
Course Calendar
Course Readings
Review – How to Learn How to Think (read in advance… will be covered in-class, notes will be done in-class)
- Introduction to Systems and Systems Thinking (Betley et al.)
- Eagle Down Is Our Law: Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims (Mills)
- Legal Studies: The Basics (TBD) (on theory)
- What Is Theory? (TBD)
- Respectful Dialogue and Debate: Principles and Practices (University of British Columbia)
- Daily Dozen: Fake It Until You Make It (course handout)
- Reading Strategies Self-Assessment (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Models and Frameworks (review – if you had Mr. Kertes already)
Sept 8-13:
- Reading 1A (to be posted)
- Reading 1B (to be posted)
Sept 14-20:
- Reading 2A (to be posted)
- Reading 2B (to be posted)
Sept 21-Oct 4:
- Reading 3A (to be posted)
- Reading 3B (to be posted)
Oct 5-Oct 18:
- Reading 4A (to be posted)
- Reading 4B (to be posted)
Oct 19-Nov 22:
- Reading 5A (to be posted)
- Reading 5B (to be posted)
Nov 23-Dec 6:
- Reading 6A (to be posted)
- Reading 6B (to be posted)
Dec 7-Dec 13:
- Reading 7A (to be posted)
- Reading 7B (to be posted)
Dec 14-Jan 11:
- Reading 8A (to be posted)
- Reading 8B (to be posted)
Course Glossary – Key Terms
Definitions will be added as we work through the course.
- adversarial system
- appeal
- authority
- balance of probabilities
- beyond a reasonable doubt
- bill
- burden of proof
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- case law
- civil law
- civil liberties
- Code of Hammurabi
- codified
- common law
- constitutional law
- contract
- contract law
- crime
- criminal law
- cross-examination
- Crown
- damages
- detention
- discrimination
- divine right
- domestic law
- due diligence
- employment law
- English common law
- estate law
- evidence
- examination for discovery
- exeuctive branch
- false imprisonment
- family law
- Federal Court of Canada
- federal system
- fraud
- freedom
- Great Binding Law
- habeas corpus
- harassment
- human rights
- injunction
- intent
- international law
- invoke
- judge
- judiciary
- jurisdiction
- jury
- Justice of the Peace
- knowledge
- legal authority
- litigants
- litigation
- lobby groups
- Magna Carta
- mediation
- mens rea
- mental capacity
- mischief
- Mosaic Law
- motive
- Napoleonic Code
- negligence
- negotiation
- offer
- pardon
- parole
- particulars
- parties to an offence
- perjury
- plaintiff
- pleadings
- procedural law
- property law
- provincial court
- public law
- Québec Civil Code
- regulatory laws
- remedy
- restitution
- reverse onus
- right
- Rule of Law
- rule of precedent
- search warrant
- sentence
- statutory authority
- subpoena
- substantive law
- summons
- Supreme Court of Canada
- system
- Ten Commandments
- theory
- tort
- tort law
- transcript
