Upper-Year Program

To enhance skills and perspectives developed in first-year, Queen’s Law students complete the following upper-year degree requirements:

• the Civil Procedure course,
• an Advocacy course,
• a Practice Skills course, and
• a Substantial Term Paper.

Each student’s individual program of study is rounded out with electives chosen from our rich curriculum. Full-time students normally take four or five courses in each of the four upper-year terms to satisfy the required upper-year credit requirement of 59 to 68 credits.
 

Curriculum

Our instructors adopt innovative teaching strategies that combine seminars, lectures, interactive technology and supervised projects to encourage participation, self-directed learning and intellectual curiosity. Our superb clinical programs and applied skills courses offer upper-year students valuable opportunities for professional skill development. We continue to expand our broad curriculum in both core and emerging areas of law, and to enhance our global perspective.

Details of all J.D. degree requirements are contained in the Faculty of Law Calendar.
Course descriptions and information for 2011-12 are available from the Upper Year Program page.

The breadth and depth of our curriculum is apparent from a listing of our upper-year courses by subject .Additional short-term intensive courses are offered each year by eminent visiting scholars on issues of evolving law.

Corporate and Commercial Law

Advanced Corporate Law

Advanced Securities

Advanced Topics in Insolvency and Business Restructuring

Business Associations

Commercial Law

Comparative Corporate Governance*

Competition Law

Corporate Finance

Corporate Governance*

Creditors' Remedies: Enforcement and Bankruptcy Insurance

International Commercial Arbitration*

International Economic Law

Osler Business Law Symposium

Queen's Business Law Clinic

Securities Regulation

Criminal Law

Advanced Criminal Law*

Clinical Correctional Law

Crime, Fault and Responsibility*

Criminal Procedure

International Criminal Law

Sentencing and Imprisonment

Environmental Law

Environmental Assessment and Natural Resources Law*

Environmental Protection Law

International Environmental and Resource Law*

Evidence, Procedure and Court Structure

Civil Procedure

Criminal Procedure

Evidence

Family Law

Advanced Family Law

Children’s Law

Clinical Family Law

Family Law

Health Law

Advanced Health Law*

Health Law

Mental Health Law

Public Health Law

Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law

Advanced Intellectual Property

Advanced Patents*

Copyright Law

Patent Law

Trademarks and Unfair Competition

International Legal Studies

Comparative Constitutional Law

Comparative Legal Traditions*

Conflict of Laws

Developments in Global Governance*

Immigration and Refugee Law

International Commercial Arbitration*

International Criminal Law

International Economic Law

International Environmental and Resource Law*

International Human Rights Law

International Humanitarian Law*

International Labour Law

International Law

International Law of the Sea*

International Norms of Minority Rights

International Taxation*

International Trade Litigation

Law and Development*

Labour Law

Advanced Labour Law*

Collective Agreement and Arbitration

Employment Law

International Labour Law

Labour Law

Occupational Safety, Health and Workers’ Compensation Law

Pensions of the Law

Legal Theory and Critical Legal Perspectives

Images of Doctors and Lawyers*

Jurisprudence

Law and Development*

Law and Economics

Law and Philosophy*

Law and Poverty*

Law and Sexuality*

Law, Gender, Equality*

Legal Imagination*

Legality and the Rule of Law

Private Law Theory*

Racism and Canadian Legal Culture

Private Law

Advanced Issues in Contract Law*

Advanced Torts

Animal Law*

Complex Liability

Elder Law Clinic

Estate Planning and Taxation*

Fiduciary Obligation

Land Transactions

Personal Injury Advocacy

Private Law Theory*

Remedies

Restitution*

Trusts

Wills and Estates

Public Law

Aboriginal Law

Administrative Law

Advanced Constitutional Law*

Comparative Constitutional Law

Equality Rights and the Charter*

Freedom of Expression

Human Rights

Immigration and Refugee Law

Law and Poverty*

Legislatures and Legislation*

Municipal Law*

Social and Economic Rights*

Skills Training and Professional Responsibility

Advanced Legal Research

Advanced Negotiation and Mediation*

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Appellate Advocacy–Moots

Clinical Correctional Law

Clinical Litigation Practice

Competitive Moot Court

Estate Litigation*

Legal Ethics

Negotiation

Personal Injury Advocacy

Public Law Advocacy

Queen's Business Law Clinic

Queen’s Law Journal

Queen’s Legal Aid Student Leadership

Trial Advocacy

Taxation

Corporate Taxation

Estate Planning and Taxation*

International Taxation*

Tax Policy

Taxation

Taxation of Trusts and Estates

Supervised Study Options

Individual Supervised Project

Supervised Group Study Program

*Course not offered in 2010-11.

Additional short-term one credit courses are offered each year by eminent visiting scholars on issues of evolving law. Course descriptions and information for 2011-12 are available at http://law.queensu.ca/students/jdProgram/2011-2012UpperYearProgram.html .