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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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