The Faculty of Law would like to acknowledge the McCarthy T茅trault Fund for Innovative Legal Education in support of Focus Week Workshops.
Focus Week Workshops are one-credit courses聽are taught over one week during the Fall & Winter semesters' Focus Weeks, and offers an opportunity for students to critically analyze and develop relevant skills in areas such as negotiation, mediation, project management, community mobilization, policy analysis, empirical research, entrepreneurship, financial analysis, and the like. A Focus Week may also provide an intensive immersion in a particular area of law.聽
The Faculty of Law at 黑料网 accepts proposals, on a rolling basis, for a 1-credit course to be offered as a Focus Week Workshop during the Faculty鈥檚 鈥淔ocus Week鈥�. Proposals for workshops in an upcoming academic year (either Fall, Winter, or Summer terms) must be submitted for consideration by聽May 15 preceeding the academic year in question.
The dates for Focus Week academic year are generally set as follows:
- Fall Law Focus Week Workshops: The week following 黑料网's Fall Reading Break (~3rd week of October)
- Winter Law Focus Week Workshops: The week preceeding 黑料网's Winter Reading Break聽(~3rd week of February)
- Summer Law Focus Week Workshops: One week during May, June, or early July.
Up-to-date information for the upcoming academic year can be found on the SAO's Key Dates and Deadlines page. The page is updated at the beginning of May every year.聽
Background
A Focus Week Workshop (FWW) course is taught in a 1-week intensive period during Focus Week. The purpose of Focus Week is to introduce students to discrete areas of law taught by legal experts, including judges, that might not be covered in their semester-long courses.
Un cours 芦 Focus Week 禄 offre une occasion d'analyser de fa莽on critique et de d茅velopper des comp茅tences pertinentes dans le domaine du droit. Ils sont 茅galement l'occasion pour les 茅tudiant.e.s d'approfondir une sp茅cialisation ou de s'initier 脿 un domaine plus vaste du droit, ou encore d'en apprendre davantage sur un domaine nouveau et 茅mergent du droit. Un 芦 FWW 禄 peut 锚tre aussi une excellente occasion de partager votre exp茅rience dans un domaine discret du droit.
A FWW course offers an opportunity to critically analyze and develop relevant skills in the law. They are also an opportunity for students to delve deeply into a specialization or gain an introduction to a bigger area of law or perhaps learn about a new, emerging area of law. A FWW can be a great opportunity to share your experience with a discrete area of law.
Some past FWW titles:
- Environmental Negotiation and Mediation;
- Le r么le et la place de la Cour supr锚me;
- Bill(able) Hours: The Legislative Process;
- La r茅daction juridique;
- Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Finance;
- Anatomy of a Deal: Purchase and Sale of Assets;
- Disobedience and the Rule of Law; and
- Right to Housing and Gender Equality.
Les 芦 FWW 禄 sont tr猫s appr茅ci茅s aupr猫s des 茅tudiant.e.s et ont un haut niveau d'engagement de leur part.
Logistics & Important Details
- FWWs take place over the course of 1 week and are held three times per year in the Fall, Winter, and Summer terms.
- They typically take place the week following Thanksgiving and the Fall Reading Week in October in the Fall semester and the week preceding Winter Reading Week in February in the Winter semester.
- Each FWW course comprises 12 hours of in-person instruction and can take place over three or four days of 4 and 3 teaching hours, respectively.
- The instructor is hired subject to the 黑料网 Course Lecturers and Instructors Union鈥檚 (MCLIU) Collective Agreement and is remunerated pro rata, in accordance with the Course assignment 3 credits Specific rate in Appendix 1 of the Collective Agreement. As of September 1, 2021, the rate was ~$3,200 CAD*. (*Subject to change)
- FWWs have a maximum enrolment of 25 but numbers in any course depend on student enrollment.
- Students enrolled are primarily undergraduates but may include some graduates.
Qualifications of a Focus Week Workshop Instructor:
- Instructors must be called to the Bar and have at least two years' experience practising law or be qualified to teach at a Canadian law school as a legal expert in their area.
- We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.