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Ross Building S741 | slstprog@yorku.ca | yorku.ca/gradstudies/slst/ |
The Master of Arts in Socio-Legal Studies is one of the first of its kind to be offered within Canada. This unique program was developed in response to the growing recognition of the urgent need for graduate level education in this new and important field. The program is carefully constructed to cover foundation areas of legal knowledge, regulation, human rights and social justice.
The program is designed to give students the knowledge and skills to enter the areas of human rights, immigration, social policy, and transnational governance. Graduates of the program acquire an appreciation of law, justice, and rights that not only transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries, but also engages with the complexity of emerging legal regimes in Canada and internationally. The specially designed curriculum is created to enable master’s students to complete the program in only one year.
The PhD in Socio-Legal Studies is the first doctoral program in Canada in interdisciplinary legal studies that is not based in a law school. While the academic foundation for the program rests on the contributions of scholars from a number of different disciplines, its scholarship can be distinguished from these disciplinary approaches by its greater attention to theory, methods, and substantive areas that focus on law and legal regulation as prime objects of investigation.
Research and teaching in this graduate program are organized around three core fields. These fields reflect the diverse teaching and research of socio legal studies, and the strong analytical and theoretical orientation of the program, while allowing for student research in a variety of substantive topic areas:
Degree Requirements
MA Degree by Major Research Paper
The program is offered on a full-time basis only and the recommended time of completion is one year. Candidates for the MA degree must satisfactorily complete the following requirements:
PhD
Candidates for the PhD degree must fulfil the following requirements, in addition to the completion of a dissertation.