LAWF 3190

Students explore and examine the complex interaction between law and religion and how this has shaped and continues to shape the modern world. Students learn about some of the central theoretical questions and debates regarding the nature of the relationship between law and religion, in the historical and contemporary contexts of the Western legal tradition. Students will examine primary and secondary legal sources that address various issues regarding religion, religious communities, religious freedoms, secularism, state neutrality, and religious matters more broadly. Students will learn to work with materials from multiple disciplines to examine legal institutions and doctrines. Students will engage with a broad range of public and private law topics in the course, including constitutional law, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, administrative law, multiculturalism, and professional ethics.