You must be enroled in the JD program in order to qualify.

Any enroled JD student may take a course listed as an Environmental Law Option course. However, JD students who wish to receive formal recognition for having completed the Environmental Law Option, which consists of a notation on their transcript, must complete the following requirements:

1. complete the compulsory course (3);
2. complete at least 9 from a list of core courses;
3. complete at least 6 from the list of optional courses; and
4. complete the major paper requirement.

Students may make a request to the Option Coordinator to have an optional course substitute for a required course if they can demonstrate that the optional course had a sufficient environmental focus to justify the exception. A minimum overall average of 6.0 in the 18 is required and includes the mandatory course and the best results in the optional courses.

Compulsory course: (3 units) (in either French or English)

• CML 3369 – Environmental Law
• CML 3769 – Droit et environnement

Core courses: (9 from the following list)

Courses may not be offered every year

• CML 3161 – International Environmental Law (3 units)
• CML 3180F – Environmental Law Clinic (3 units)
• CML 3180W – Environmental Law Clinic (3 units)
• CML 3203 – Municipal and Planning Law
• CML 3251 – Legal Research and Writing
• CML 3351 – Legal Research and Writing: Public Interest Research Projects
• CML 3503 – Droit municipal
• CML 4112A – Interdisciplinary Studies in Law – Food Law
• CML 4134A – Studies in Environmental Law: Climate Change and Legal Change
• CML 4914C – Law and Climate Change / Droit et changements climatiques (Bilingual Seminar)
• Environmental Law Moot

Optional courses (6 from the following list)

• CML 1206D – Introduction to Public and Constitutional Law
• CML 2118B – The Law of Democracy
• CML 2179C – Access to Justice Practicum
• CML 2301 – Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
• CML 2302 – Business Organizations
• CML 2312 – Administrative Law
• CML 2701 – Les autochtones et le droit
• CML 2712 – Droit administratif
• CML 3131 – Public International Law
• CML 3152 – Supreme Court Seminar
• CML 3241A – Jurisprudence
• CML 3371 – Introduction to Intellectual and Industrial Property
• CML 3531 – Droit international public
• CML 3771 – Introduction à la propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
• CML 4105 – International Trade Regulation
• CML 4109A – Studies in Human Rights – Business and Human Rights
• CML 4112 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Law, Global Trade, Environment & IP
• CML 4150 – Globalization and Law
• CML 4162 – Advanced Aboriginal Law
• CML 4306A – International Intellectual Property – Regulation of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
• CML 4502/DRC 4589 – Thèmes choisis de droit administratif: Développements récents dans l’administration de la justice fédérale
• CML 4507 - Études en droit des affaires : Corruption, intégrité et loi
• CML 4508 – Études en droit international : Arbitrage international
• CML 4508 – Études en droit international : Droit international économique
• CML 4509B – Stages en droits à l’égalité
• CML 4526B – Droit maritime
• DRC 4760 – Droit, médicine et biologie
• DRC 4762 – Droit des autochtones
   

IMPORTANT: You must be currently registered in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law JD program in order to register for the Environmental Law Option.

Do I register for the Environmental Law Option before I have completed all the requirements?

No. There is no special procedure to register for the Environmental Law Option during the regular annual admission process. Once they have completed their first year of legal studies, law students may take the compulsory and optional courses required to satisfy the requirements of the Environmental Law Option, including a Major Paper in an approved course. Once the requirements have been met, students should follow the procedure below.

Registering for the Environmental Law Option once you have completed the requirements

1. JD students who wish to receive formal recognition of an Option in Environmental Law must complete 18 units in the field of environmental law. (See requirements).
2. Once the required units have been achieved, students should obtain the registration form.
3. Students must complete the form to identify which qualifying courses they have completed and to identify their Major Paper.
4. The form must then be signed by the Environmental Law Option Coordinator, and returned to the Common Law Student Centre for processing.

A major paper must be completed in the compulsory course, a core course or an optional course as defined above. The major paper may also be completed in a Directed Research course: CML 3251 Legal Research and Writing (Selected Problems) (4 units) or CML 3351 Legal Research and Writing (Selected Problems) (3 units), approved by the Option Coordinator. The paper must represent not less than 50% of the final mark.