TRN425Y1
TRN425Y1: Law Workshops Course
Course Description
Typically in mid-July the senior ES&L majors with the highest GPAs are invited to join the Law Workshops Course. The course is challenging and seating is limited. It is unlikely the cut-off will go below a GPA of about 3.50 in any given year. Students are introduced to fundamental approaches to the study and interpretation of law – such as positivist/natural law traditions, critical race, feminist, indigenous, as well as law & economics among others perspectives. In addition, the students attend workshops and/or lectures within the Faculty of Law in which they are able to see these various approaches in action. The students also participate in in-class case studies that seek to engage with the various perspectives studied. The students are expected to present a reading each term, complete related assignments as well as a research paper in the winter term.
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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