Topic 7: Indigenous Law in Practice Indigenous law refers to Indigenous peoples own laws and is distinctive from the common law and civil law that form the primary content taught in law schools across Canada. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report calls for greater recognition and use of Indigenous laws, and legal professionals are increasingly asked to listen to, interpret, and apply Indigenous laws over the course of their practice. Yet how to do this raises practical and critical questions. This interactive seminar explores some of the current opportunities and challenges related to this practice area. Students will learn ways to engage with Indigenous legal traditions respectfully and critically, including an introduction to five different methods for drawing out Indigenous laws (from stories, ceremonies, land, language, and community). Students will also actively engage with specific Indigenous (primarily Anishinaabe) laws in a supportive environment. Topic 8: Indigenous Law and Ecological Governance This transsystemic course examines ecological governance through Indigenous laws, and Canadian law by comparison. It is a central condition of being human that we must take from the earth to survive, yet the extractive foundations and narratives within Canadian law stand in contrast to Indigenous legal orders which conceptualizes extraction in a different set of legal foundations. These differences uniquely animate decision-making processes and principles. This course proposes that the essential work of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal orders requires reconciling ourselves with the earth, including the lifeworlds we both explicitly and implicitly uphold. We will explore possibilities for working across legal orders and consider questions of environmental justice from various perspectives. Topic 9: Law and Autocracy This seminar explores various dimensions of the relationship between law and authoritarianism. We begin with an overview of the theoretical discussion of that relationship, ranging from the beginnings of modern political theory to recent writing on law and the "new authoritarianism." We will then examine the role of law and lawyers in facilitating or undermining autocracy, with reference to historical and contemporary examples. Topic 10: Charter Section 7 In this course, students will critically consider the role of section 7 in constraining Parliament's use of criminal laws in highly contested policy spaces, with a focus on the Supreme Court's role in how Canada now contends with commercial sex and assisted death. Some of the most contentious moral and ethical issues in Western democracies have transferred from the domain of representative politics to the courts through the constitution. The courts now play a key role in defining the substantive limits of criminal law. Section 7 of the Charter guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of the person, and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with principles of fundamental justice. The Supreme Court has never found a law that violates section 7 justified under section 1. Successful section 7 challenges propelled change in Canada's legislative approach to abortion, commercial sex, and assisted death. This course examines: the nature and scope of the right to life, liberty, and security of the person; the principles of fundamental justice; and whether a section 7 violation could ever be justified under section 1. Students will also consider relevant procedural and evidentiary aspects of Charter litigation including: the role of interveners; the importance of adjudicative and legislative fact evidence; and the use of reasonable hypotheticals in assessing the constitutionality of criminal laws under section 7. Topic 11: Critical Race Theory This course uses the insights of critical historical, sociological, and legal scholarship to analyze the forces that have led to the formation of our legal system and the role that established law plays in limiting the possibility of achieving true equality and the elimination of racial hierarchies. The course will give students specific analytic tools that will enable them to bring a critical approach to all areas of their legal education as well as to this countries legal system and framework. Students will also be encouraged to explore their professional identities and future role within that existing framework. The course is divided into three sections: Historical Origins; The evolution and critical analysis of legal jurisprudence (both Canadian and International). Then and Now; and Going Forward. Topic 12: Indigenous Lived Experience of Canadian Law In this course, learners and the lead educator will survey selected Indigenous lived experiences of Canadian law and policy. While considering the layered colonial experiences of Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and communities, learners will be asked to challenge what they think they know about Canadian law. Learners will have the opportunity to engage in curated embodied Indigenous pedagogical practice in the classroom to facilitate building new relationships to ideas and will be expected to engage in individual artistic practice grounded in theories of Persuasive Legal Aesthetic over the course of the term. No previous artistic experience is required; the lead educator, a Floral Beadwork Person, will support you. Topics surveyed may include Forced Assimilative Education, Genocide of Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited Peoples, child welfare crises, and other deeply challenging legal issues. The lead educator is committed to building a learning space centring love and community care and encourages learners to reach out with any questions or concerns. Topic 13: AI and Law Canada is in the midst of a major technological revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) that is transforming the practice of law, delivery of legal services, and the law. This course will explore both the theoretical and practical issues to understand the impact of AI on Canadian law and the practice of law. Topics to be addressed include the different approaches throughout the world to the regulation of AI (including Canada, EU, UK and others), governance of AI, professional obligations of lawyers and the use of AI, intellectual property, product liability, data privacy, and the use of AI in the administrative law, criminal and healthcare settings. Topic 15: Two Paradigms of Canadian Law A paradigm is a model or a set of premises that constitutes a way of understanding how things work. In the Canadian legal system, two paradigms have long been competing for dominance, as the legal ground slowly shifts beneath our feet. This seminar will give students an opportunity to make sense of the current state of Canadian law through this lens. It will explore features of these paradigms and consider conceptual and systemic shifts, some advanced and some just beginning, such as: from rule-of-law to rule-by-law; from common law to codified law; from legislative supremacy to judicial supremacy; from restrained courts to active judicial policy-making; from limited executive powers to managerial discretion; from separation of powers to delegation and deference to the administrative state; from equal treatment to equity; from blind justice to social justice; from negative rights to positive rights. This is a seminar course in which students will focus on the writing of an essay or research paper. Topic 17: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation This seminar explores how societies use transitional justice processes to confront large-scale political violence, and to bring about social and political transformation and reconciliation. The seminar proceeds in three parts: first, we examine the different elements of transitional justice and critiques of transitional justice; second, we explore how different mechanisms of transitional justice, such as truth and reconciliation commissions, public commemorations, criminal trials, have been used in jurisdictions around the world; and third, we consider what transitional justice and political reconciliation require in liberal democracies, such as Canada. Topic 18: Law of Homicide This advanced course in criminal law focuses on the law of homicide. The course will examine the constituent elements, available defences and relationship between forms of culpable homicide. The course will also address the prosecution and defence of homicide charges, as well as evidentiary and procedural issues that frequently arise in homicide cases. In addition, the course will explore jury instructions at various stages of the trial. Topic 19: Law and Social Innovation In this seminar, students will explore how regulations have (or have not) addressed the recent rapid pace of technological innovation, including key legal debates taking place in Canada and abroad. The course will explore a range of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including generative artificial intelligence's upheaval of traditional concepts of intellectual property, regulating the internet and online speech, privacy rights and emerging online torts, and copyright in the digital age. While the focus of this class will be on Canadian law, owing to the global nature of the topics and the ways in which governments are learning from each others' legislative initiatives, the course will include international approaches as well. Topic 20: Advanced Topics in Income Taxation This course will examine a number of topics including the taxation and deductibility of interest, the meaning of "paid-up capital", taxable Canadian property, derivatives and hedging and the rules relating to preferred shares. The course will emphasize the importance of interpreting the relevant provisions of the Income Tax Act as well as key cases. Topic 21: Education Law Our public education system has recently been the subject of controversy regarding strikes and labour disruptions in schools, teachers' and students' use of social media, and the process and outcomes of school board policymaking. This course will provide an overview of the legal regime for the system of public education in Ontario, with an emphasis on its unique labour relations regime. It covers labour and employment law issues relating to school boards, including the two-tier collective bargaining structure, strikes and work-to-rule activities, teachers' professional judgment and responsibilities, occupational health and safety (for example, work refusals related to violent students), and Charter issues such as the freedom of expression and privacy rights. Additional topics include school board governance, special education law, and Education Act issues, including student discipline and school closures. The course will include guest lecturers, who may include specialized subject matter experts and representatives of school boards, teachers' unions and the government. Topic 22: Lawyering for Reconciliation Student participating in this seminar will gain an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action that relate to the legal profession, along with other Public Inquiry Reports that have called for significant improvements in how the legal profession interacts with Indigenous people and communities. Using an inclusive pedagogical approach, Students will explore what it means to 'lawyer for reconciliation' and query whether the Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules of Civil Procedure and other legal processes and procedures further or harm reconciliation. Students will examine the Attorney General of Canada's Directive on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples and review several case studies, professional conduct discipline hearings, facta, correspondence, and oral submissions delivered in courts across the country and hear directly from Indigenous claimants/respondents and their legal counsel. Topic 23: Taxation Policy This course offers a rigorous engagement with contemporary issues in tax law and policy by integrating the Queen's Colloquium on Tax Law and Policy, which brings leading scholars from Canada and abroad to present works in progress on national and international tax matters. Tax law plays a central role in public policy as it allocates resources, shapes institutions, and reflects commitments to fairness, efficiency, and collective responsibility. The course examines how domestic tax systems adapt in response to global and technological pressures. Each Colloquium cycle spans two weeks. In the first, students meet in seminar to study and critically assess a paper. In the second, they engage directly with the author in a structured workshop. Through readings, reflections, and discussion, students develop critical reading, analytical, and communication skills while working toward an original legal research paper. Topic 24: Anishinaabe Law Field School Historically, Indigenous peoples own legal traditions were not taught in law school classrooms ' they were taught in community settings, and on the Land. Therefore, to learn certain elements of Indigenous peoples' own laws, we must thoughtfully go to unfamiliar places to learn from voices rarely heard within the legal academy. In this Field School course, students will first participate in an Anishinaabe Law Camp at the Chippewas of Rama First Nation from Thursday September 11 to Sunday September 14. The rest of the semester students will work together as a team on an Anishinaabe law project identified by the First Nation, namely, to create an online database of Anishinaabe legal resources for use by decision-makers in a First Nation led tribunal, a first of its kind for any Indigenous legal order in Canada. To conduct this work, we will collaborate with community leaders at Chippewas of Rama, other Anishinaabe law knowledge-keepers, and legal database design experts. This course is generously funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario for the purpose of supporting First Nations in their legal revitalization work, and training emergent professionals in how to engage in an Indigenous law-informed legal practice. The training in this course through the Law Camp and the seminar classes is designed to help students reflect on the nature of law, including Anishinaabe law. Anishinaabe law is embedded in a community's lifeways. It flows from many sources, such as deliberation, environmental experience, community customs, origin stories, and contemporary written declarations. Anishinaabe law's function is to provide standards, principles, processes, criteria, measures, indicia, benchmarks, guides, traditions, and precedents for living together in healthy ways (mino-bimaadiziwin). Legal resources are found in stories, mnemonic devices like wampum belts, language, art, games, recreational activities, ceremonies like sweat lodges, relationships to land (as a source of human sustainability), dodem/clan teachings, songs and drums, deliberation, custom and contemporary innovation. This course will expose students to these and other resources for regulating affairs and resolving disputes in an Anishinaabe context. An introduction to Anishinaabe law will also help students better understand law's nature in Canada to promote a braided approach to future legal practice, with Indigenous law as one important strand. Topic 25: Legal History of Business Regulation This course provides an opportunity for students to learn more about the underlying policies of modern business law through a consideration of the history of legal doctrines and statutes that affected the development of commerce. Topics include inter-provincial trade, contracts, corporate law, bankruptcy law, corporate reorganization and farm insolvency. Emphasis will also be placed on the evolution of constitutional law since federalism had a significant impact on the development of business law. While the primary focus is on business in Canada, comparative developments in the United States and the United Kingdom will also be examined. The course provides students with the opportunity to advance their skills in critical reading, thinking and writing. The course is taught primarily through student-led discussion, which requires all students to actively participate in every class. Topic 27: Derivatives Law and Crypto This course provides a history of the development of derivatives, and an overview and explanation of derivatives and derivatives regulation in Canada and internationally, including crypto assets and the regulation of crypto trading. It reviews the Ontario Securities Act, regulations and policies as they relate to derivatives, and futures oversight under the Commodity Futures Act, including an in-depth discussion of post-financial-meltdown derivatives regulatory reform. After a brief introduction to documentation of OTC derivatives, it examines blockchain technology and how it is used in crypto contracts and currencies, Defi, NFTs, stablecoins, tokenization and staking. It reviews the developing oversight regime for these products and participants in Canada and internationally, discussing the gaps in regulation in this area, the risks involved in trading in these markets, and the role of regulation to prevent further investor losses. Topic 28: Entertainment Law This course will address the fundamentals of entertainment law, from a theoretical and applied perspective. It will consider the topic from its foundation as a particular application of the law of contract, to an examination of practical issues and approaches that arise in this specialized area of practice.
Topic 7: Indigenous Law in Practice Indigenous law refers to Indigenous peoples own laws and is distinctive from the common law and civil law that form the primary content taught in law schools across Canada. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report calls for greater recognition and use of Indigenous laws, and legal professionals are increasingly asked to listen to, interpret, and apply Indigenous laws over the course of their practice. Yet how to do this raises practical and critical questions. This interactive seminar explores some of the current opportunities and challenges related to this practice area. Students will learn ways to engage with Indigenous legal traditions respectfully and critically, including an introduction to five different methods for drawing out Indigenous laws (from stories, ceremonies, land, language, and community). Students will also actively engage with specific Indigenous (primarily Anishinaabe) laws in a supportive environment. Topic 8: Indigenous Law and Ecological Governance This transsystemic course examines ecological governance through Indigenous laws, and Canadian law by comparison. It is a central condition of being human that we must take from the earth to survive, yet the extractive foundations and narratives within Canadian law stand in contrast to Indigenous legal orders which conceptualizes extraction in a different set of legal foundations. These differences uniquely animate decision-making processes and principles. This course proposes that the essential work of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal orders requires reconciling ourselves with the earth, including the lifeworlds we both explicitly and implicitly uphold. We will explore possibilities for working across legal orders and consider questions of environmental justice from various perspectives. Topic 9: Law and Autocracy This seminar explores various dimensions of the relationship between law and authoritarianism. We begin with an overview of the theoretical discussion of that relationship, ranging from the beginnings of modern political theory to recent writing on law and the "new authoritarianism." We will then examine the role of law and lawyers in facilitating or undermining autocracy, with reference to historical and contemporary examples. Topic 10: Charter Section 7 In this course, students will critically consider the role of section 7 in constraining Parliament's use of criminal laws in highly contested policy spaces, with a focus on the Supreme Court's role in how Canada now contends with commercial sex and assisted death. Some of the most contentious moral and ethical issues in Western democracies have transferred from the domain of representative politics to the courts through the constitution. The courts now play a key role in defining the substantive limits of criminal law. Section 7 of the Charter guarantees the right to life, liberty and security of the person, and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with principles of fundamental justice. The Supreme Court has never found a law that violates section 7 justified under section 1. Successful section 7 challenges propelled change in Canada's legislative approach to abortion, commercial sex, and assisted death. This course examines: the nature and scope of the right to life, liberty, and security of the person; the principles of fundamental justice; and whether a section 7 violation could ever be justified under section 1. Students will also consider relevant procedural and evidentiary aspects of Charter litigation including: the role of interveners; the importance of adjudicative and legislative fact evidence; and the use of reasonable hypotheticals in assessing the constitutionality of criminal laws under section 7. Topic 11: Critical Race Theory This course uses the insights of critical historical, sociological, and legal scholarship to analyze the forces that have led to the formation of our legal system and the role that established law plays in limiting the possibility of achieving true equality and the elimination of racial hierarchies. The course will give students specific analytic tools that will enable them to bring a critical approach to all areas of their legal education as well as to this countries legal system and framework. Students will also be encouraged to explore their professional identities and future role within that existing framework. The course is divided into three sections: Historical Origins; The evolution and critical analysis of legal jurisprudence (both Canadian and International). Then and Now; and Going Forward. Topic 12: Indigenous Lived Experience of Canadian Law In this course, learners and the lead educator will survey selected Indigenous lived experiences of Canadian law and policy. While considering the layered colonial experiences of Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and communities, learners will be asked to challenge what they think they know about Canadian law. Learners will have the opportunity to engage in curated embodied Indigenous pedagogical practice in the classroom to facilitate building new relationships to ideas and will be expected to engage in individual artistic practice grounded in theories of Persuasive Legal Aesthetic over the course of the term. No previous artistic experience is required; the lead educator, a Floral Beadwork Person, will support you. Topics surveyed may include Forced Assimilative Education, Genocide of Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited Peoples, child welfare crises, and other deeply challenging legal issues. The lead educator is committed to building a learning space centring love and community care and encourages learners to reach out with any questions or concerns. Topic 13: AI and Law Canada is in the midst of a major technological revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) that is transforming the practice of law, delivery of legal services, and the law. This course will explore both the theoretical and practical issues to understand the impact of AI on Canadian law and the practice of law. Topics to be addressed include the different approaches throughout the world to the regulation of AI (including Canada, EU, UK and others), governance of AI, professional obligations of lawyers and the use of AI, intellectual property, product liability, data privacy, and the use of AI in the administrative law, criminal and healthcare settings. Topic 15: Two Paradigms of Canadian Law A paradigm is a model or a set of premises that constitutes a way of understanding how things work. In the Canadian legal system, two paradigms have long been competing for dominance, as the legal ground slowly shifts beneath our feet. This seminar will give students an opportunity to make sense of the current state of Canadian law through this lens. It will explore features of these paradigms and consider conceptual and systemic shifts, some advanced and some just beginning, such as: from rule-of-law to rule-by-law; from common law to codified law; from legislative supremacy to judicial supremacy; from restrained courts to active judicial policy-making; from limited executive powers to managerial discretion; from separation of powers to delegation and deference to the administrative state; from equal treatment to equity; from blind justice to social justice; from negative rights to positive rights. This is a seminar course in which students will focus on the writing of an essay or research paper. Topic 17: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation This seminar explores how societies use transitional justice processes to confront large-scale political violence, and to bring about social and political transformation and reconciliation. The seminar proceeds in three parts: first, we examine the different elements of transitional justice and critiques of transitional justice; second, we explore how different mechanisms of transitional justice, such as truth and reconciliation commissions, public commemorations, criminal trials, have been used in jurisdictions around the world; and third, we consider what transitional justice and political reconciliation require in liberal democracies, such as Canada. Topic 18: Law of Homicide This advanced course in criminal law focuses on the law of homicide. The course will examine the constituent elements, available defences and relationship between forms of culpable homicide. The course will also address the prosecution and defence of homicide charges, as well as evidentiary and procedural issues that frequently arise in homicide cases. In addition, the course will explore jury instructions at various stages of the trial. Topic 19: Law and Social Innovation In this seminar, students will explore how regulations have (or have not) addressed the recent rapid pace of technological innovation, including key legal debates taking place in Canada and abroad. The course will explore a range of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including generative artificial intelligence's upheaval of traditional concepts of intellectual property, regulating the internet and online speech, privacy rights and emerging online torts, and copyright in the digital age. While the focus of this class will be on Canadian law, owing to the global nature of the topics and the ways in which governments are learning from each others' legislative initiatives, the course will include international approaches as well. Topic 20: Advanced Topics in Income Taxation This course will examine a number of topics including the taxation and deductibility of interest, the meaning of "paid-up capital", taxable Canadian property, derivatives and hedging and the rules relating to preferred shares. The course will emphasize the importance of interpreting the relevant provisions of the Income Tax Act as well as key cases. Topic 21: Education Law Our public education system has recently been the subject of controversy regarding strikes and labour disruptions in schools, teachers' and students' use of social media, and the process and outcomes of school board policymaking. This course will provide an overview of the legal regime for the system of public education in Ontario, with an emphasis on its unique labour relations regime. It covers labour and employment law issues relating to school boards, including the two-tier collective bargaining structure, strikes and work-to-rule activities, teachers' professional judgment and responsibilities, occupational health and safety (for example, work refusals related to violent students), and Charter issues such as the freedom of expression and privacy rights. Additional topics include school board governance, special education law, and Education Act issues, including student discipline and school closures. The course will include guest lecturers, who may include specialized subject matter experts and representatives of school boards, teachers' unions and the government. Topic 22: Lawyering for Reconciliation Student participating in this seminar will gain an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action that relate to the legal profession, along with other Public Inquiry Reports that have called for significant improvements in how the legal profession interacts with Indigenous people and communities. Using an inclusive pedagogical approach, Students will explore what it means to 'lawyer for reconciliation' and query whether the Rules of Professional Conduct, Rules of Civil Procedure and other legal processes and procedures further or harm reconciliation. Students will examine the Attorney General of Canada's Directive on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples and review several case studies, professional conduct discipline hearings, facta, correspondence, and oral submissions delivered in courts across the country and hear directly from Indigenous claimants/respondents and their legal counsel. Topic 23: Taxation Policy This course offers a rigorous engagement with contemporary issues in tax law and policy by integrating the Queen's Colloquium on Tax Law and Policy, which brings leading scholars from Canada and abroad to present works in progress on national and international tax matters. Tax law plays a central role in public policy as it allocates resources, shapes institutions, and reflects commitments to fairness, efficiency, and collective responsibility. The course examines how domestic tax systems adapt in response to global and technological pressures. Each Colloquium cycle spans two weeks. In the first, students meet in seminar to study and critically assess a paper. In the second, they engage directly with the author in a structured workshop. Through readings, reflections, and discussion, students develop critical reading, analytical, and communication skills while working toward an original legal research paper. Topic 24: Anishinaabe Law Field School Historically, Indigenous peoples own legal traditions were not taught in law school classrooms ' they were taught in community settings, and on the Land. Therefore, to learn certain elements of Indigenous peoples' own laws, we must thoughtfully go to unfamiliar places to learn from voices rarely heard within the legal academy. In this Field School course, students will first participate in an Anishinaabe Law Camp at the Chippewas of Rama First Nation from Thursday September 11 to Sunday September 14. The rest of the semester students will work together as a team on an Anishinaabe law project identified by the First Nation, namely, to create an online database of Anishinaabe legal resources for use by decision-makers in a First Nation led tribunal, a first of its kind for any Indigenous legal order in Canada. To conduct this work, we will collaborate with community leaders at Chippewas of Rama, other Anishinaabe law knowledge-keepers, and legal database design experts. This course is generously funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario for the purpose of supporting First Nations in their legal revitalization work, and training emergent professionals in how to engage in an Indigenous law-informed legal practice. The training in this course through the Law Camp and the seminar classes is designed to help students reflect on the nature of law, including Anishinaabe law. Anishinaabe law is embedded in a community's lifeways. It flows from many sources, such as deliberation, environmental experience, community customs, origin stories, and contemporary written declarations. Anishinaabe law's function is to provide standards, principles, processes, criteria, measures, indicia, benchmarks, guides, traditions, and precedents for living together in healthy ways (mino-bimaadiziwin). Legal resources are found in stories, mnemonic devices like wampum belts, language, art, games, recreational activities, ceremonies like sweat lodges, relationships to land (as a source of human sustainability), dodem/clan teachings, songs and drums, deliberation, custom and contemporary innovation. This course will expose students to these and other resources for regulating affairs and resolving disputes in an Anishinaabe context. An introduction to Anishinaabe law will also help students better understand law's nature in Canada to promote a braided approach to future legal practice, with Indigenous law as one important strand. Topic 25: Legal History of Business Regulation This course provides an opportunity for students to learn more about the underlying policies of modern business law through a consideration of the history of legal doctrines and statutes that affected the development of commerce. Topics include inter-provincial trade, contracts, corporate law, bankruptcy law, corporate reorganization and farm insolvency. Emphasis will also be placed on the evolution of constitutional law since federalism had a significant impact on the development of business law. While the primary focus is on business in Canada, comparative developments in the United States and the United Kingdom will also be examined. The course provides students with the opportunity to advance their skills in critical reading, thinking and writing. The course is taught primarily through student-led discussion, which requires all students to actively participate in every class. Topic 27: Derivatives Law and Crypto This course provides a history of the development of derivatives, and an overview and explanation of derivatives and derivatives regulation in Canada and internationally, including crypto assets and the regulation of crypto trading. It reviews the Ontario Securities Act, regulations and policies as they relate to derivatives, and futures oversight under the Commodity Futures Act, including an in-depth discussion of post-financial-meltdown derivatives regulatory reform. After a brief introduction to documentation of OTC derivatives, it examines blockchain technology and how it is used in crypto contracts and currencies, Defi, NFTs, stablecoins, tokenization and staking. It reviews the developing oversight regime for these products and participants in Canada and internationally, discussing the gaps in regulation in this area, the risks involved in trading in these markets, and the role of regulation to prevent further investor losses. Topic 28: Entertainment Law This course will address the fundamentals of entertainment law, from a theoretical and applied perspective. It will consider the topic from its foundation as a particular application of the law of contract, to an examination of practical issues and approaches that arise in this specialized area of practice.