Instructor(s): Alexi Wood

This seminar course examines tort law from a practice-based perspective. The course will begin with an overview of the key Rules of Civil Procedure that affect tort practice, as well as damages and causation. Thereafter, each seminar will explore a different area of tort law, with a particular focus on new, emerging, and undecided areas of law. Throughout the course, students will be given pleadings and transcripts from actual cases and will discuss how precedent case law applies to these cases.

Areas to cover will include:

  • Defamation, including online defamation;  
  • Privacy, including emerging torts in various jurisdictions and online privacy;
  • Medical torts;
  • Economic torts, including the emerging trends in vicarious liability, fiduciary duty, and misrepresentation.
Evaluation
Overall class participation (10%); factum outline (10%); and 5,000 word final assignment, which will be to prepare a mock factum from an actual case (80%).
Academic year
2024 - 2025

At a Glance

First Term
Credits
2
Hours
2

Enrolment

Maximum
25

23 JD
2 LLM/SJD/MSL/SJD U

Schedule

Th: 8:30 - 10:20 am