A big welcome to our new LLM class at Osgoode in the specialist labour and employment law stream! We start tonight. I am the Academic Director of the program this time around, and John Craig of Heenan Blaikie is my co-director. We’ve been busy designing an interesting and challenging program. The program is (in my humble opinion) the best of its kind in the country, and right up there with the best in the world for labour and employment law. We have a nice mix of senior union officials, labour lawyers, government officials, and labour relations neutrals in the program, which should make for some interesting sessions.
The opening course is the Theory and Perspectives course, which I am co-teaching with Professor Eric Tucker (Osgoode). This course will explore the leading theoretical perspective on the regulation of work, as well as some of the hot topics in the field. This course provides the foundation for analysis as we move forward in the program. In this first course, we expect some great visitors too, including Harry Arthurs, Harry Glasbeek from Osgoode and Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law). Next up will be Gillian Demeyere’s course on the Individual Employment Contract, which begins in January. Here is the rest of schedule.
For our new students, See you tonight. For those of you who now wish you’d applied, well, as my daughter would say, “you snooze, you loose”.
