Winter 2016 -- Course Offerings -- Methods of Evaluation
Revised: March 31, 2015
Winter 2016: Seminars/Clinicals/Skills
Credit
Wt
Course
Number
Course Name
Instructor
Class
Size
Method of Evaluation
TBA
24
paper and participation
Nicholls/Seifred/Greenspoon
24
60% exam; 40% assignment
Amani
24
Class presentation and participation 25%; 2 written
assignments 20%; final paper 55%
TBA
24
Participation 20%; presentation 20%; paper 60%
Hanson
24
70% essay and 30% participation
Muzynski/Storms
20
2 assignments 45%; 2 skills evaluations 55%
40% class participation/attendance; 2 papers worth 30% each
3
Law 532
Aboriginal Law
3
Law 608
Advanced Corporate Law
3
Law 469
Advanced Intellectual Property
3
Law 566
Advanced Labour
3
Law 339
Advanced Torts
3
Law 365
Advocacy on Motions
3
Law 343
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Hammond
20
3
Law 344
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Maur
20
3
Law 512
Business Finance
Connidis
24
4
Law 590B
Clinical Litigation Practice (continues)
Mills/Primeau
24
Attendance, participation, seminar preparation, seminar
presentation and assignments
Substantive file work 30%; file management and clinic
performance 35%; class participation 35%
4
Law 418B
Prison Law Clinic (continues
Thomas
18
Evaluation of clinic work 85%; class presentation 15%
3
Law 562
Collective Agreement and Arbitration
D. Carter
20
60% course assignment; 40% class particiption
3
Law 446
Competition Law
Martino/Clarke
24
50% final exam (hypothetical case based); 30% take-home
assignment (short answer); 20% participation
3
Law 280
Contested Transactions
Davis
24
20% participation; 80% on two assignments of equal weight
3
Law 511
Corporate Taxation
Sorensen
24
90% exam; 10% participation
3
Law 695B
Elder Law Clinic
Hurley
8
Work on client files/Public Legal Education Presentations 65%;
paper 25%; professionalism 10%
3
Law 645
Estate Litigation
Freedman
20
50% participation; 50% advocacy exercise
3
Law 521
Family and Children's Law Placements
[Formerly Clinical Family Law]
Bala
10
Assessment of placement, reflective piece, seminar
involvement
3
Law 523
History of Human Rights
Corbett
24
paper and participation
3
Law 542
International Human Rights
Robinson
24
70% paper; 20% participation; 10% written participation
(comments, quizzes)
3
Law 303
Law and Poverty
Essert
24
60% paper and 40% participation
3
Law 332
Legal Imagination
TBA
24
Weekly writing assignments, two tutorials, class participation
3
Law 335
Negotiation
Whyte
20
class participation 30%; focus notes 10%; critical review 10%;
group project 15%; self appraisal paper 35%
3
Law 336
Negotiation
TBA
20
3
Law 681
Occupational Safety, Health & Wrkrs Comp.
Law
24
100% final exam OR 100% paper OR a hybrid option of 40%
paper and 60% final exam
3
Law 564
Pensions and the Law
Mills
24
8-10 page research memo/client advice 25%; class
participation 25%; in-class presentation 25%; 10-page paper
on in-class presentation topic 25%
3
Law 364
Personal Injury Advocacy
Cameron
20
2/3 assignments; 1/3 participation
3
Law 304
Public Health Law
Peppin
24
Substantial research paper worth 80% of the final grade and
in-class work, made up of short focus notes on readings and
class discussion, worth 20% of the final grade
3
Law 435
Public Law Advocacy
TBA
20
Participation in in-class exercises 10%; moot administrative
hearing (40%); judical review factum (50%)
3
Law 438B
Queen's Business Law Clinic (continues)
Hurley
16
Work on client files/Public Legal Education Presentations 65%;
paper 25%; professionalism 10%
4
Law 527B
Queen's Family Law Clinic (continues)
varies
Law 589B, 588B,
Queen's
587B Law Journal (continues)
3
Law 360
Trial Advocacy (Family)
3
Law 361
Trial Advocacy (Criminal)
3
Law 362
Trial Advocacy (Civil)
3
Law 363
Trial Advocacy
McGrath
12
Casework and oral/written presentation
Thomas/Webber
varies
varies
TBA
20
Written assignments 50%; motion 20%; summary hearing 30%
Wigderson/Wilkinson
20
Kamin
20
Mandatory attendance; mandatory participation in weekly
exercises; mandatory participation in final mock trial; pass/fail
grading.
60% class participation; 40% student conducted trial
examination
TBA
20
not available
Walters
75
100% open-book exam
McCormack
50
90% legal memorandum; 10% in-class test
Njoya
100
100% open-book exam
Knutsen
100
60% open-book exam; 40% assignments
Winter 2016: Lecture Courses Offered Fall and Winter Terms
4
Law 427
Administrative Law
3
Law 321
Advanced Legal Research
4
Law 440
Business Association
4
Law 225
Civil Procedure
4
Law 404
Criminal Procedure
4
Law 320
Evidence
Stuart
75
100% open book exam
4
Law 520
Family
Bailey
75
100% open-book exm
4
Law 560
Labour
not offered this term
3
Law 334
Legal Ethics and Professionalism
4
Law 508
Taxation
not offered this term
n/a
n/a
TBA
75
100% open-book exam
Lahey
90
0% to 100% open-book exam and/or 100% course credit for
guided research paper
McGrath
60
90% course journal; 10% class participation
Winter 2016: Lecture Courses Offered in Winter Term Only
3
Law 519
Children's Law
3
Law 441
Commercial
Horst
60
Open-book exam
3
Law 468
Copyright
Amani
60
100% take-home exam (7.5 hrs) OR 100% paper
3
Law 522
Human Rights
Corbett
60
100% open-book exam
3
Law 416
Sentencing and Imprisonment
3
Law 462
Wills and Estates
Kerr
60
100% open-book exam OR 100% paper
Freedman
75
100% open-book exam
Short Courses Offered Winter Term Only
1
Law 693
Feminist Legal Studies Workshop
Amani/Lahey
24
Advance questions per speaker event: 20%; briefing notes per
speak event: 30%; short term paper for end of term: 50%.
1
Law 232
Comparative Constitutional Law
Kahana
24
70% paper OR take-home exam; 20% participation (but
failsafe if paper/exam is higher); 10% attendance
1
Law 233
Constitutional Labour Law
Kahana
24
70% paper OR take-home exam; 20% participation (but
failsafe if paper/exam is higher); 10% attendance