Course Schedule

This is the official course schedule. Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Visit this page for the most recent course information.

Week	Dates	Lesson	Readings
1	Oct 1/3	Introduction to the Course	Harrison v Carswell Protection of Property Act Styles of Argument
2	Oct 8/10	Recognition, Relationships and Possession	Abandonment Armorie v Delamirie Asher v Whitlock Clift v Kane Locke, Second Treatise Liberalism Netukulimk Piper v Stevenson R v Syliboy Terra Nullius Wildlife Act
3	Oct 15/17	Title as Recognition	Indian Act Royal Proclamation (1763) St. Catherine’s Milling v R Tenures and Estates
4	Oct 22/24	Nuisance and the Right to Exclude	Black v Canadian Copper Co. Bundle of Sticks Canada Paper Co. v Brown Shelfer v City of London Electrical Victoria Park Racing v Taylor
5	Oct 29/31	Excluding the State	Expropriation Act House of Commons Debates McLaren v Caldwell Riparian Rights Rivers and Streams Act
6	Nov 5/7	Mid-term Rapid Review	No additional readings
	Reading Break
7	Nov 19/21	Alienation, Exit and Control	Basic Estates and Future Interests Blackburn v McCallum Conveyancing Act Re Walker Tulk v Moxhay Wills Act
8	Nov 26/28	Trusts, Property and Citizenship	Duthie v Gallagher & Duthie Iwasaki v R The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Trusts
9	Dec 3	End-of-term Rapid Review	No additional readings
10	Jan 28/30	Constructive Takings	Annapolis Group Inc. v Halifax CPR v Vancouver Expropriation Act Mariner Real Estate v Nova Scotia Planning Act R v Cappy Saint-Romuald v Olivier
11	Feb 4/6	Right to Shelter	Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada v Canada Heegsma v Hamilton Regional Municipality of Waterloo v Persons Unknown Victoria (City) v Adams
12	Feb 11/13	Restrictive Covenants and Qualified Interests	Canada Trust Co. v Ontario Covenants Running in Equity Noble v Alley McCorkill v McCorkill Re Drummond Wren Stuartburn v Kiansy
13	Feb 25/27	Mid-Term Rapid Review	Holmes, “The Path of Law”
14	Mar 4/6	Possession, Revisited	Keefer v Arillotta Kosicki v Toronto (City) Popov v Hayashi
15	Mar 11/13	Reserve Lands in Transition	Framework Agreement on First Nations Land Management Act Guerin v R Indian Act Rise of the FNLM Regime Southwind v Canada
16	Mar 18/20	Common Law Aboriginal Title	Constitution Act, 1982, s 35 Delgamuukw v British Columbia Tsilhqot’in v British Columbia
17	Nov 25/27	End-of-term Rapid Review	Borrows, “Terra Nullius (Brightspace) No additional readings