LL.B.
PROGRAM
Last update: August 21, 2003 - 1:00pm
The
program is described below as it currently exists.
However, the curriculum is under continuing review and may have
changed since this description was last updated.
Ordinarily, at least two Years of the LL.B. program must be completed
in our Faculty, the other Year being completed elsewhere.
First Year
Each full-time student is required to take all of the following courses:
|
Course No. |
Credit Hours |
|
045.110 |
Contracts |
|
|
045.114 |
Criminal Law and Procedure |
6 |
|
045.146 |
Constitutional Law |
5 |
|
045.148 |
Torts and Compensation Systems |
5 |
|
045.150 |
Property |
5 |
|
045.153 |
Legal System |
2 |
|
045.154 |
Legal Methods |
5 |
| Total Credit Hours |
33 |
Second Year and Third Year
In Second Year each student must take:
|
045.265 |
Introduction to Advocacy |
3 |
|
045.260 |
Evidence |
4 |
|
045.262 |
Legal Negotiation: Skills
and Strategies for Effective Representation |
3 |
|
045.267 |
Civil Procedure |
2 |
|
045.269 |
Corporations I |
3 |
|
045.353 |
Administrative Law |
3 |
| Total Credit Hours |
18 |
In either
Second Year or Third Year each student must take:
|
045.249 |
Trusts |
3 |
|
045.264 |
Family Law |
3 |
|
045.266 |
Introduction to Taxation |
3 |
|
Total Credit Hours |
9 |
In Second
Year
each student must take one of the following:
|
Perspective Electives |
|
045.307 |
Gender and the Law |
3 |
|
045.309 |
Children and the Law |
3 |
|
045.313 |
Crime, Law and Society |
2 |
|
045.319 |
Law and Literature |
3 |
|
045.328 |
Limits of Law |
3 |
|
045.331 |
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law |
3 |
|
045.338 |
Issues in Law and Bio Ethics |
3 |
|
045.341 |
Canadian Legal History |
3 |
|
045.349 |
Research Paper |
2 |
|
045.362 |
Comparative Law |
3 |
|
045.374 |
International Law |
3 |
|
045.376 |
Jurisprudence |
2 |
|
045.394 |
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
3 |
|
045.398 |
Current Legal Problems B |
3 |
|
|
Aboriginal Peoples and Land Claims |
|
|
|
International Business Law |
|
|
|
International Trade Law |
|
|
|
The Legislative Process |
|
Each student in Second Year must take a minimum of 32
credit hours of courses, comprising (i) the
courses required to be taken in Second Year, above, (ii) any of the courses
which may be taken in either Second or Third Years, above, (iii) the required
Perspective Elective, above, (iv) additional Perspective Electives, above,
and (v) any of the Third Year Doctrinal and Miscellaneous Electives, below,
subject to pre-requisites and co-requisites.
The Third Year Clinical courses,Legal
Profession and Professional Responsibility,Advanced
Legal Research,Remedies,Corporate Tax,Estate & Trusts Tax ,Dispute Resolution, Advanced
Family Law and Non-Law Elective below, are not available to Second Year
students.
Each student in Third Year is required to take whichever
of 045.249 Trusts, 045.264 Family Law, and 045.266 Introduction to Taxation
was not taken in Second Year, plus a Perspective Elective, above, excluding
045.329 Research Paper if it was taken in Second Year, plus
|
045.393 |
The Legal Profession and
Professional Responsibility |
3 |
The rest of a Third
Year student’s credit hours, comprising a minimum of 32 credit hours,
shall be selected from additional Perspectives Electives, above, and the
Doctrinal, Miscellaneous and Clinical Electives, below:
Doctrinal and Miscellaneous
Electives
|
045.240 |
Wills and Succession |
3 |
|
045.251 |
Problems in Contract and Tort |
2 |
|
045.253 |
Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights |
2 |
|
045.301 |
Agency |
2 |
|
045.304 |
Sales and Consumer Law |
2 |
|
045.305 |
Commercial Law |
3 |
|
045.306 |
Transportation Law |
3 |
|
045.316 |
Dispute Resolution |
2 |
|
045.320 |
Immigration and Refugee Law |
2 |
|
045.321 |
Competitions A* |
2 |
|
045.322 |
Competitions B* |
3 |
|
045.324 |
Current Legal Problems C |
2 |
|
045.325 |
Current Legal Problems D |
3 |
|
045.326 |
Insurance Law |
4 |
|
045.333 |
Employment Law |
3 |
|
045.336 |
Advanced Legal Research |
3 |
|
045.339 |
Securities Law |
2 |
|
045.345 |
Remedies |
3 |
|
045.348 |
Restitution |
2 |
|
045.350 |
Intellectual Property |
4 |
|
045.351 |
Corporate Tax |
3 |
|
045.352 |
Estate & Trusts Tax |
3 |
|
045.359 |
Charter Issues in Criminal Law |
3 |
|
045.360 |
Environmental Law |
3 |
|
045.361 |
Landlord and Tenant |
2 |
|
045.368 |
Land Titles |
3 |
|
045.369 |
Real Estate Transactions |
3 |
|
045.377 |
Labour-Management Relations |
3 |
|
045.382 |
Manitoba Law Journal* |
2 |
|
045.383 |
Legal Aid Clinic* |
2 |
|
045.385 |
Conflict of Laws |
3 |
|
045.386 |
Business Planning and Finance Law |
2 |
|
045.388 |
Municipal and Planning Law |
3 |
|
045.397 |
Current Legal Problems A
Advanced Issues in Intellectual Property
Trade Marks & Patents |
2 |
|
045.398 |
Current Legal Problems B
Advanced Family Law
Copyright
Corporations II |
3 |
|
xxx.xxx |
Non-Law University Elective |
3 |
|
* Only one of the electives with an asterisk can be selected
for credit.
|
Clinical
Electives
|
045.314 |
Clinical Administrative Law |
4 |
| 045.325 |
Current Legal Problems D
Clinical Family Law |
3 |
|
045.327 |
Clinical Family Law |
6 |
|
045.330 |
Clinical Criminal Law |
8 |
|
045.389 |
Solicitors Transactions |
3 |
|
045.398 |
Current Legal Problems B
Advanced Advocacy |
3 |
Third Year students may take 045.389 Solicitors Transactions
plus either 045.314 Clinical Administrative Law or or 045.325 Clinical Family Law,045.398
Advanced Advocacy. No student can
take two of 045.314 Clinical Administrative Law, 045.325 Clinical Family
Law, and 045.398 Advanced Advocacy. No
student can take a second Clinical Elective with either 045.327 Clinical
Family Law or 045.330 Clinical Criminal Law.
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