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2025 Spring/Summer Semester Trimestre printemps/tFaculty:
Section de Common Law / Common Law SectionUnit:
Faculty of Law Common Law SectionPTCourse Title:
CML4113Course Code:
Selected Problems in Legal Practice: Legal Memos Made EasySection:
FFCourse Description:
Designed to fit with the work demands of students undertaking summer jobs this course enables students to work at their own pace to write and edit a legal memo guided by online interim assignments that take approximately three to ten hours a week to complete. The course emphasizes applying feedback and reflection to continuously improve student work. The Professor leads students through an editing workshop and meets them individually to give feedback. A researcher assigned to the course to evaluate the effectiveness of asynchronous legal writing instructions is available to students to discuss any assignment.Posting limited to:
Professeur tempspartiel rgulier / Regular PartTime ProfessorDate Posted:
April 08 2025Applications must be received BEFORE:
April 18 2025Expected Enrolment:
18Approval date:
April 08 2025Number of credits:
3Work Hours:
39Course type:
BPosting type:
Irrgulier / IrregularLanguage of instruction:
Anglais EnglishCompetence in second language:
PassiveCourse Schedule:
N/ARequirements:
The Common Law Section is seeking candidates with extensive experience writing both predictive and persuasive legal documents and giving oral and written feedback on writing. Experience teaching legal writing and experience as a mentor is an asset. Candidates must be willing to use active learning strategies and provide extensive feedback on multiple assignments. Writing professors work as a team directed by the Legal Writing Academy. Candidates may be interviewed.
The Common Law Section reserves the right to select a candidate who does not fully meet each of these requirements where the candidates selection would be beneficial to the program the course the students or for a related reason.
Additional Information and/or Comments:
An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.
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