Courses
Western Law offers a rich set of public law courses that span the breadth and depth of issues that perennially preoccupy and puzzle public law jurists. These courses include:
- Aboriginal Law
- Administrative Law
- Advanced Constitutional Law: Charter of Rights
- Advanced Constitutional Law: Federalism
- Advanced Labour Law
- Canadian Human Rights
- Capstone: Government and Public Administration
- Capstone: Labour, Employment, and Social Justice
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Theory Seminar
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Law Advocacy
- Criminal Procedure
- Current Issues in Public Law
- Disability Law
- Environmental Law
- Freedom of Expression
- Hate Speech in Canada
- Healthcare Law and Policy
- Immigration and Refugee Law
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law
- Intellectual Property
- Labour Law
- Law and Gender
- Law and Religion
- Media Law
- Mining Law and Sustainability
- Municipal Law
- Public International Law
- Sex Discrimination and the Law
- Statutory Interpretation
- Why Punish? Questions of Criminal Theory
Core course offerings also include a range of advocacy and dispute resolution courses related to matters of public law, including the Gale Cup, the Jessup Moot, the Kawaskimhon Talking Circle, the Labour Arbitration Competition, the Laskin Moot, and the Wilson Moot.
Western Law also offers a curricular stream in Government and Public Administration for JD students. One of several curricular streams, it culminates in an optional “capstone” course in the spring of third year, which is intended to bring together the theoretical, practical and interdisciplinary components of public law that JD students encounter in their other courses. The faculty advisor for the Government and Public Administration curricular stream is Professor Wade Wright.
