Osgoode Hall Law School,

Study Groups and Course Offerings

Osgoode offers a unique program of study groups and formal courses for its graduate students.

Study Groups

Study Groups bring graduate students with similar research interests together with a faculty member to review, discuss, and criticize current scholarship that relates broadly to the research areas of their participants. The current Study Groups  themes are:

  Law and Economic Relations
  Law and Social Justice
  Regulation and Governance
  Theoretical Perspectives in Legal Research

 

Courses

Osgoode graduate students can take a variety of courses both from within Osgoode and from elsewhere at York. Osgoode offerings include graduate-only courses, as well as select upper-year J.D. courses. Options exist to undertake directed reading and independent research under a particular professor.  Courses open to graduate students include:

  Graduate Legal Research and Writing
  Graduate Seminar in Legal Research
  Western Legal Histories
  Feminist Legal Theory
  Advanced Bankruptcy
  Advanced Securities
  Applied Research Methods: Policy and Regulatory Studies
  Democratic Administration
  Family Law Policies
  Intellectual Property Theory
  ICT (International, Comparative and Transnational) Colloquium
  Law, Labour Relations and the State: Employment and Labour Policy
  Tax Law and Policy Colloquium

 

Osgoode graduate students can also take graduate courses offered by the part-time LLM program offered through Osgoode Professional Development.

For more information:

  Registrar's office course listings
  Osgoode Professional Development: part-time LLM course listing