Courses Offered

LAWS 2178.04:  Intellectual Property Law
This class provides students with an introduction to the legal regimes governing the protection of intellectual property. The class will cover the following specific areas of intellectual property law: patents, trademarks, and copyright law. In addition, students will be introduced to common law actions for passing off, appropriation of personality, and inurious falsehood.
EVALUATION:  100% Examination 

LAWS 2170.03: Information Technology Transactions
This class will focus on practical and substantive issues relating to the development, negotiation, and drafting of commercial agreements involving information technology matters. Topics will include licensing, distribution, and marketing agreements; electronic commerce and internet agreements; the financing and acquisition of intellectual property; and taxation issues. Students are partly evaluated through role assignments in which they prepare, negotiate, and finalize technology agreements.

RECOMMENDED: Commercial Law
ENROLMENT: Limited to 16 third year students
NOTES: Students cannot take both Information Technology Transactions and Corporate Transactions.
CO-REQUISITES: Business Associations

LAWS 2168.03: Internet and Media Law
This class deals with the law that governs the dissemination of information and the regulation of information providers. In this class, "media" is defined broadly to include broadcasters, newspapers and magazines and the internet. Topics that will be addressed include: defamation; liability of service providers; privacy issues; publication bans; media regulation; copyright issues; conducting business via the internet ("e-commerce") and media ownership. The impact of the internet on the legal regulation relating to each of these topics will be explored throughout the course.

EVALUATION: Final examination (100%)

LAWS 2019.03:  Law and Technology
This is a seminar in which students are required to discuss, conduct reseearch, generally explore and write papers on issues relating to law and technology. Classes focus on a range of topics drawn from the intersections of law and technology, including but not limited to regulating the internet, intellectual property rights in relation to the internet, biotechnology genetic modification in plant and animal materials for food and agriculture., developments in telecommunications and teh law, privacy and access to information, ethics and technology. Students are encouraged and shepherded to generate and explore researchable issues in their areas of interests in order to meet their individual and/or collective expectations from the seminar. There is no technical background or expertise required for enrollment in the seminar. Students are, however, expected to make use of the Internet and other research tools to access seminar-related materials and conduct research on a final paper.

EVALUATION:  Major paper, presentations anc class attendance/participation 

LAWS 2183.02:  Privacy Law
This course is designed to expose students to a wide variety of legal issues that arise in teh field of privacy. It will provide students with an opportunity to explore what privacy is, to examine how laws protect or invade privacy and to examine other legal interests which compete with privacy interests. Topics covered include: privacy and access to information legislation; the role of Federal and Provincial Privacy Commissioners, privacy rights in a variety of settings, e.g. home, office, school, hospital, courts, internet, business and foreign policy. The issues of balancing order and privacy in the context of terrorism (post 9/11) is also examined.

EVALUATION:  Written examination for 100% (optional paper for 50% of grade)