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Law & Technology Institute

Schulich School of Law

Teaching

Specialize in Law & Technology

We offer one of the strongest Law and Technology programs in the country. With ubiquitous computing and online connectivity, advances in biotechnology, big data storage and search, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain, questions of law, technology, policy, ethics, and society are of increasing importance and public concern. Our program is designed to prepare law students for technologies of today and tomorrow, with a variety of courses engaging with and thinking critically about issues and problems at the intersections of law, technology, and society.

The Program is anchored by the Law and Technology Institute鈥攆ounded to promote scholarly legal research and advance knowledge in technology law. LATI was among the first such research centers in the country; our flagship publication the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology. The CJLT is Canada鈥檚 leading technology law journal, with significant impact, currency, and citation scores ranking it 8th over all among Canadian law journals, and 3rd overall internationally among all science and technology law journals outside the United States.

Students interested in registering for the Law and Technology Certificate must download and complete the and then send it to lawandtech@dal.ca as early as possible and ideally at the start of second year.

Requirements

JD students are able to earn a certificate in Law and Technology. The specialization will be recognized on their transcript. To specialize, a student must take:

Students MUST complete LAWS 2178 AND one of
the other three indicated courses.

and one of the following:

聽Elective Classes:

All electives offered as part of the Law and Technology Certificate build on the knowledge and skills acquired in the required courses. Students MUST complete a minimum of three (3) courses; either two (2) from Basket One and one (1) from Basket Two, or vice-versa.聽 Please note not all courses are offered every year.

Basket 1 - Law and Technology

Basket 2 - Intellectual Property Law

Other major paper courses may also serve as electives towards the specialization, if the paper topic is approved by the Director of the Law and Technology Institute, who serves as the Director of the Law and Technology Specialization program.

Students should also check the courses listed on the Law School web page as it sometimes includes new courses approved after the calendar deadline.

Students interested in registering for the Law and Technology Certificate must contact the Director of the Law and Technology Institute as early as possible and ideally at the end of first year.

Subject to exceptional circumstances and approval of the Associate Dean (Academic) and the relevant certificate directors,聽students may graduate with a maximum of two certificates.

Credits from a maximum of two individual course may be counted toward two different certificates.

For example:

  • Credits earned in聽LAWS 2127/2128 Mental Disability Law: Criminal聽may count toward both the Health Law Certificate and the Criminal Justice Certificate.
  • Credits earned in聽LAWS 2221 Public Health Law, where a student writes a paper related to the health challenges experienced by Indigenous people(s), may count toward both the Health Law Certificate and the Aboriginal and Indigenous Law Certificate.