A survey of the role of administrative agencies within the Anglo-Canadian legal system focusing primarily upon consideration of the extent to which agency and executive action is subject to judicial review and control.
LAW 351.3
Evidence I 1/2(3L)
Examination of the foundations of the law of evidence in civil and criminal trials in Canada. The principles, rules, statutes and procedures are examined from a critical perspective with emphasis on the history, rationale and reform of rules and statutes affecting the admissibility of evidence. The topics examined are admissibility, relevance, character evidence, opinion evidence, hearsay evidence, competence, privilege and confessions.
LAW 361.3
Business Organizations I 1/2(3L)
Examination of the basic features of business corporations. The following topics, among others, are considered: corporate personality, the process of incorporation, the powers and duties of directors and officers, shareholder rights and remedies.
LAW 363.3
Agricultural Law I 1/2(3L) Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of first year law.
Agriculture is a highly regulated industry in most jurisdictions; Canada and Saskatchewan are no exception. Historically governments have intervened in agriculture under the pretext of ensuring stability in both the agriculture and consumer communities, thus Agricultural Law is often considered the law of exceptions. Reviews specific legislation designed to regulate agriculture, such as the Saskatchewan Farm Security Act, as well as agricultural exceptions in general. Case law and other legal analysis wll be included when necessary.
LAW 372.3
Family Law I 1/2(3L)
Introduction to trends in families and family law, the constitutional and statutory framework for the regulation of families and the role of process issues in family law practice. The course also provides a detailed examination of maintenance and property rights as between spouses, both married and common law.
LAW 384.3
Civil Procedure 1/2(3L)
A chronological study of the procedural steps, rules and related substantive law in a civil action from the moment of the decision to sue to the trial of the matter. The context of the adversarial process in an action is examined by reference to the policies underlying civil procedure, the role and authority of the lawyer, the organization and jurisdiction of the courts, limitations of actions and costs. The civil action is examined through a focus on principles of jurisdiction and venue, type and manner of commencement of proceedings, pleadings, multiple claims and parties, and discovery. The course will involve the drafting of documents.
LAW 388.3
Constitutional Theory 1/2(3L)
This is a “Legal Perspectives” course that introduces students to important theoretical questions in the context of constitutional law. These questions include the nature of law, the relationship between law and politics, the nature of judicial reasoning, the relationship between democratic practice and judicial review, the scope of the constitutional norms of equality and liberty. These issues will be explored using recent constitutional cases and scholarly writings.
LAW 390.3
Critical Legal Theory 1/2(2S-1R)
A "Legal Perspectives" course intended to introduce students to the literature and approaches of what is presently known as "critical legal studies". Major themes developed in the work of "crits" and "fem-crits" include: the artificiality and arbitrariness of formal legal systems, the indeterminacy of rules, the duplicity of the public/private distinction, the use of myths of legal neutrality and objectivity to maintain hierarchy and conditions of social inequality, and the role of images and rhetoric of freedom and equality in obtaining compliance with institutional mechanisms of control and oppression. Many of these themes and problems were previously analyzed by the legal realists.
LAW 393.3
Gender and Law 1/2(2S-1R)
Examines the social construction of gender, and critical and feminist perspectives on law.
LAW 394.3
Jurisprudence 1/2(3L)
A "Legal Perspectives" course examining the nature and function of law, focusing particularly on the relationships between law and society, law and morality and law and political theory.