TRN204H1
TRN204H1: Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
Course Description
This course introduces students to the study of law and legal reasoning through an examination of the participants, institutions and processes involved in law-making and law-administering. Case law examples from various fields of law (including tort, criminal, constitutional) will be used to explore some of the themes of the course. Students will examine the organization of the Canadian legal system as well as critically engage with some of more challenging issues facing both the criminal and civil justice system including international law.
2023-2024 Instructor
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Jennifer Leitch Jennifer Leitch, JD, LLM, PhD is a researcher and law teacher, primarily in the area of legal ethics and professionalism, access to justice, torts and dispute processes. Her PhD dissertation at Osgoode included ethnographic research involving self-represented litigants’ experiences participating in the civil justice system. She continues to research and publish in the fields of access to justice and legal ethics. She also practiced civil litigation at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. Jennifer has been an adjunct faculty member of Osgoode Hall Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where she taught legal ethics and professionalism, legal procedure and legal research and writing as well as torts. She is the Associate Director and an instructor in the Ethics, Society & Law Program at Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. She is also the Director of the National Self-Represented Litigant Project situated at University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. |
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