Instructor(s): Jim Phillips

Note: 1 ungraded credit per term.

Note: Students cannot take more than one workshop for credit in a given year.

The Legal History Workshop takes place on Wednesday evenings throughout the year. It meets six or seven times a term, on roughly alternate Wednesdays. For a list of dates and speakers, please go to https://www.law.utoronto.ca/scholarship-publications/workshops-and-seminars/toronto-legal-history-group.  The schedule for the first term will be available in July.   

The schedule for the second term will be a work in progress, finalized during the first term. Topics for each workshop may be on any aspect of legal history, from any jurisdiction or time period. Presenters submit a ‘work in progress’ paper about one week before each workshop, which all members are expected to have read for the workshop. The workshop format is discussion of that paper.  

Attendees at the workshop in addition to J.D. students are graduate students and faculty in law and history from many Canadian (and some international) Universities, the majority from U of T and York, as well as members of the profession, the judiciary and other interested parties. Paper presenters are people who volunteer to present their work.   

All members of the law school community are welcome to attend any workshop. JD students wishing to register in the workshop for credit may do so. 

Evaluation
Students who register for the workshop for credit must attend a brief orientation session held before the first workshop; students will be notified of the time and place for this session in early September. Students must attend a minimum of 10 (ten) of the workshops. In addition, they must prepare a minimum of 5 (five) commentaries on the papers, of c. 500 words each. The commentaries must be submitted before the workshop session, and the five commentaries must be about papers given at sessions that the student attends. Students will also write a paper of approximately 2,500 words on any legal history topic. The topic for these papers must be approved by the instructor. Students must pass both the paper and the participation component to receive 2 ungraded credits for the workshop.
Academic year
2024 - 2025

At a Glance

Both Terms
Credits
2
Hours
2
Perspective course

Enrolment

Maximum
20

18 JD
2 LLM/SJD/MSL/SJD U

Schedule

W: 6:30 - 8:30 pm