Academic Handbook Index

The Academic Handbook is your reference guide to all Faculty of Law procedures and policies. It has its own site, and can be found at:

• handbook.law.utoronto.ca

Listed below are the contents of the Academic Handbook website (links will go to the Academic Handbook site unless otherwise specified).

Academic Program

• JD Degree Requirements
• First Year Academic Program
• Combined Programs - See main website Combined Programs page (opens in new window)
• Leaves of Absence, Transfers, Letters of Permission & Withdrawal

Guidelines and Procedures

• Academic Counselling and Accommodations
• Access to Student Academic Records
• Appeals
• Attendance
• Examinations: Guidelines & Accommodations
• Grading and Honours/Distinction Standing
• Anonymous Grading of Examinations and Written Work
• Transcript Ordering
• Written Work: Guidelines, Extensions and Penalties
• Cancellation and Rescheduling of Classes

Courses

• Course Selection Procedure
• Course Selection for Incoming Exchange Students
• Deadline Dates
• Priority Letters 
• Course Enrolments in Previous Years
• Courses by Area of Law 
• Faculty Research Supervision Areas
• Faculty Sabbatical Leaves 
• Perspective Courses
• Supervised Upper Year Research Paper ("SUYRP")
• SUYRP Courses
• International, Comparative, Transnational (ICT) Courses
• Courses Requiring Pre or Co-Requisite
• Courses Offered in Alternate Years
• Other Course Opportunities
• Additional Credit/Combined Credit
• Course Evaluations
• Intensive Courses
• Student Course Proposals

Events

• Advertising Events
• Events Checklist (PDF, opens in a new window)
• Room bookings
• Room Booking Form (e.Legal - login required) 
• Reimbursement for Approved Expenses
• Food Deliveries and Serving Alcoholic Beverages
• Films

Facilities

• Audio-visual Equipment
• Building Hours
• Classroom Names
• Food Deliveries and Serving Alcoholic Beverages
• Mail, Telephones and Fax
• Lockers
• Lost and Found
• Parking
• Physical Plant Problems
• Room Bookings

Quicklinks

• ROSI
• Blackboard Learning System
• Address and Name Changes
• Faculty Council

Policies

• Faculty of Law Policies. Includes:
• Gender discrimination,
• Restrictions on taping lectures and seminars,
• Religious Holidays,
• Research with Human Subjects,
• Student Conduct,
• Technology in Classrooms
• University Policies (opens to Governing Council website)
• University Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters (PDF, opens to Governing Council website)
• University Code of Student Conduct (PDF, opens to Governing Council website)
• University Of Toronto: Important Notices
• How Not to Plagiarize (opens to University of Toronto website)

Forms

• SUYRP (Word) 
• Combined Course Credit Application Form (Word)
• Directed Research Form (Word)
• Competitive Moot Graded Credit Form (Word)
• Student Course Proposal Form (Word)
• Written Work Cover Page (Word)
• Accommodation Request (Word)

Combined Programs Course Selection Checklist Forms (Word)

• JD-Environmental Studies (Word) 
• JD-MA Criminology (Word)
• JD-MA Economics (Word)
• JD-MA English (Word) 
• JD-MA ERES (Word) 
• JD-MBA (Word) 
• JD-MGA (Word)
• JD-MSW (Word) 
• JD-PhD Economics (Word) 
• JD-PhD Philosophy (Word) 
• JD-PhD Political Science (Word)