2018 TORONTO PROGRAM

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

COOLEY SCHOOL ’S

19TH ANNUAL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM

MAY 17 – JUNE 29, 2018

(Revised 5-14-18; 6-4-18)

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School is pleased to announce its

19th annual American Association (ABA)-approved study abroad program in Toronto, , during the summer of 2018. Law students will study and live

in Toronto for either three or six weeks beginning May 17 and ending June 29.

This program is offered in cooperation with the University of St. Michael’s College

in the University of Toronto. Nine international and courses

will be taught by law professors, and Canadian and .

THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM outstanding museums like the Royal Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the The WMU-Cooley foreign study program in Ontario Science Centre. Toronto has been approved by the American Bar Association’s Accreditation Committee of All classes will be conducted on the campus of the Section of and Admissions The University of St. Michael’s College. The to the Bar. The program was re-inspected in program director’s office will be on campus June, 2012, receiving approval through 2019. too. St. Michael’s is located on the eastern Classes do not have prerequisites. Each course edge of the University of Toronto’s campus. It is conducted in English by law professors, is just a short walk from the shopping and Canadian attorneys or a and meets the theatre amenities along Bloor and Yonge requirements of the ABA. Streets in the heart of downtown Toronto.

DATES OF PROGRAM

Residence hall check-in may begin the morning of May 16, 2018. There will be a walking tour of the campus for all registrants at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception, barbecue and orientation at 6:00 p.m. Classes for Session One begin Thursday, May 17, and end Thursday, June 8. Session Two begins on Friday, June 8, and ends Friday, June 29. With some exceptions, classes will be held during the morning Monday through Friday. All courses will be conducted in classrooms on the very attractive downtown Toronto campus of Around 4,000 full-time students are enrolled at the University of St. Michael’s College. The St. Michael’s. Most major city attractions are schedule will permit students to visit many of just minutes away by taxi or public the outstanding cultural attractions in Ontario, transportation. To see and learn more about including the Stratford Festival, the Shaw the college, go to http://stmikes.utoronto.ca . Festival, Niagara Falls, Toronto Islands, and renowned museums in Toronto. WHO SHOULD ATTEND

LOCATION U.S. law students with an interest in comparative and will benefit Toronto is the capital of the province of from this program. Because Canada and the Ontario and is the largest city in Canada. It is U.S. form the largest bilateral trading vibrant, with more than eighty ethnic relationship in the world, spending time in communities from around the world. It is Canada and gaining familiarity with the dynamic, with professional sports teams and Canadian legal system will be helpful to most Canada’s leading financial district. It is future . Canadian nationals attending cultural, with the third largest English- a U.S. law school may find it professionally speaking theater district in the world and rewarding to earn credit in Toronto. A limited 2 number of students participating in LL.B. A Canadian Study Permit is not required for programs in other countries may also this program. A visa is not required for a stay participate upon approval. Finally, anyone up to 180 days. Anyone with a criminal interested in a summer study abroad program record (including a DWI charge) should in one of the world’s great cities, without a contact the Canadian Embassy or nearest language barrier and without the need to fly consulate. across an ocean, should consider participating in the Toronto Program. Approval must be PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY AND granted by the Associate Dean. APPLICATION PROCEDURE

WMU-Cooley will consider applications from law students who are currently enrolled in good standing in an ABA-accredited or state- approved law school and have completed at least one year of study. WMU-Cooley students must have completed 27 credits and have a 2.25 GPA. Students from law schools other than WMU-Cooley must ask their school to send a letter of current good standing and an official transcript to WMU-Cooley verifying the above criteria. A limited number of international students who are currently CANADIAN ENTRY REQUIREMENTS enrolled in good standing in an LL.B. program in another country and are fluent in English The United States and Canada have their own may also apply. We may have participants regarding entry and exit requirements. It from our exchange program with the is strongly recommended that you refer to the University of Münster. Others interested are United States Department of State website encouraged to contact the program. Inquiries (e.g., should be directed to [email protected] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel.html ) prior to submission of an application. and the Canadian Border Services Agency Approval must be granted by the Associate website ( http://www.cbsa.gc.ca ) for Dean. information to determine what documents are required for entry into and exit from these Last year, five J.D. students participated. One countries. The simplest way to facilitate U.S. law school was represented among the crossing the border is to possess a valid U.S. students. Past participants were from Canada, passport. Scotland, India, Germany, and a visiting attorney from Brazil. Any student who is not a U.S. or Canadian citizen should contact the Canadian Embassy All applicants must submit a completed at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., application and a nonrefundable deposit of Washington, D.C. 20001. Telephone: (202) $250, which will be credited to tuition and fees, 682-1740 for further entry information. to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. Guest students may arrange with us to 3 charge the deposit to a credit card. Please DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY contact us should you wish to pay the deposit online. Deposits are fully credited to tuition and fees. The $250 deposit becomes nonrefundable on The application deadline is March 15, 2018 for April 1, 2018 in the case of withdrawal from WMU-Cooley students and April 1, 2018 for the program regardless of cause. The $50 per guest students. session program activities fee and the $100 administrative fee paid to WMU-Cooley are Download an application at: nonrefundable in the case of withdrawal from http://www.cooley.edu/foreignstudy/canada.h the Toronto study abroad program regardless tml of cause once approved to participate. For Applicants must also provide an official other than complete withdrawals, tuition transcript and certification from their law refunds for the Toronto study abroad program school that they are currently in good are made according to the Summer Study standing. They may be included with your Abroad 2018 Student Guide. Students may not application or sent shortly thereafter. reduce the total number of credit hours for Applicants must also provide proof of a valid which they are registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT passport. on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Tuition is nonrefundable after that deadline. Students Space is limited due to classroom size. Guest are responsible for housing costs including student applications received prior to April 1 those WMU-Cooley incurs on their behalf. will be considered on a first-come, first- accepted basis. Applications received after SESSIONS April 1 will be considered and notified in a timely manner if space is available. There will be two three-week sessions.

Students may register for either or both. Nine Send your application materials and deposit timely law courses will be offered providing to: an excellent variety of options. Students may

enroll for no more than three credits per Western Michigan University session and four class hours daily. Final Cooley Law School exams will be conducted at the end of the International Programs Office session. Exams are not given early or in 2018 Toronto Program advance. Students will be promptly notified 300 S. Capitol Avenue if classes are cancelled due to insufficient Lansing, MI 48933 enrollment. The 2018 schedule has been

designed to enable students to register for Travel arrangements and accommodations Toronto and then participate in the WMU- should not be arranged before WMU-Cooley Cooley Oxford Program for five weeks officially notifies applicants of acceptance beginning in July. Many students have taken into the program. advantage of that arrangement in order to earn

as many as twelve credits during the summer.

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LEGAL AND EXTRACURRICULAR include internet access and a mini refrigerator. The meal plan options for 2018 are C$82 for 10 EVENTS meals, C$397 for 50 meals, C$775 for 100 meals

or C$2,420 for 320 meals. Please add 13% HST. Visits to legal institutions in Toronto will be Students who choose the Sorbara Hall housing scheduled during both sessions. Although no are responsible for and, by their participation academic credit will be awarded for these in the program, agree to pay for all housing visits, they will provide an important charges, including those incurred by WMU- enrichment to the educational experience, and Cooley in advance on their behalf in reliance students will be expected to accompany the on their application and deposit. professors and their classmates on these excursions. In 2017, students attended a WMU-Cooley will provide additional session of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, information and detailed reservation had a guided tour of the and Osgoode instructions for the Sorbara Hall housing. Hall. In a more social vein, they attended an opening dinner and a closing event. Similar events will take place in 2018. TUITION , HOUSING COSTS AND FEES

All tuition, housing and fees are made payable to the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in U.S. funds. The estimate of expenses for the six-week program (all in U.S. dollars) which is being used by the WMU- Cooley Financial Aid Office follows. Keep in mind that prices will change with currency fluctuations (some budget figures calculated on currency exchange rates in January 2018; currency exchange rates will vary over time).

Sorbara Hall Tuition ñ WMU-Cooley students pay tuition at the HOUSING school’s established rate. Honors Scholars apply their scholarships to the cost of the

program. There are two housing options in Toronto. ñ Guest students pay $650 per semester Students may find their own off campus hour. housing or live on St. Michael’s campus.

Housing at Sorbara Hall (six weeks, internet On campus accommodations are available at access, mini fridge and 13% HST) .. $ 1,672 Sorbara Residence Hall, centrally located on Administrative fee ...... 100 the St. Michael’s campus. All rooms are Program activities fee ...... 100 singles, with sinks, and are air-conditioned. Student Bar Association ...... 20 Restrooms are located on each floor. A room (WMU-Cooley students only) at Sorbara costs C$1,830 for both sessions or Financial Aid loan fee ...... 100 C$915 for either Session 1 or Session 2, and add (WMU-Cooley students only) 13% HST. Sorbara’s all-inclusive cost will 5

Other estimated expenses for the six-week the United States Department of State’s program: Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) for your travel during the program: Travel to and from Toronto ...... $ 335 https://step.state.gov/step/ Students must Food ...... 1,665 subscribe to receive up-to-date safety and Local transportation ...... 143 security information, and country Supplies/books (est. $100 per course) ...... 600 Laundry ...... 186 information, for the countries in which Miscellaneous ...... 665 they will be studying. Supplemental health/accident insurance ..... 80 The State Department has new consular WMU-Cooley will issue a schedule/statement safety and security messaging. Carefully to each registrant. Payment in full is due on review this important information. May 1, 2018, unless other arrangements have https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/i been approved by WMU-Cooley. nternational-travel/before-you-go/about- our-new-products.html The State PROGRAM ACTIVITIES FEE Department issues a Travel Advisory for every country on the country’s own page. Each student pays a program activities fee that https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/i helps cover the cost of social events and nternational-travel/International-Travel- receptions. Country-Information-Pages.html See a

complete list of Travel Advisories at MEDICAL AND TRAVEL INSURANCE https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/tr

aveladvisories/traveladvisories.html . The Students are required to have medical insurance with minimum requirements that State Department’s travel.state.gov site include emergency evacuation and provides important information for U.S. repatriation coverage. It is highly citizens considering and traveling recommended that students obtain travel internationally. insurance too. Some travel insurance policies may protect students from the loss of expenses The U.S. State Department’s country such as air travel and housing in the event of specific information for Canada is at withdrawal from the program. The financial https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/i aid budget includes the cost of medical nternational-travel/International-Travel- insurance. Country-Information-Pages/Canada.html .

STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL Other countries have similar services. The ADVISORIES, COUNTRY web page for Canada’s service for its INFORMATION, STEP citizens is http://travel.gc.ca/ . Participants REGISTRATION, AND WITHDRAWAL must provide proof of registration with

their home country’s service. Students who are U.S. citizens must All registrants will be promptly notified if, provide proof of online registration with prior to the start of the program, the U.S. 6

State Department issues a Travel Warning FINANCIAL AID or Alert covering the dates and locations of the program. Registrants will have the Students should contact their home school’s opportunity to withdraw and obtain a full Financial Aid Office to determine their refund of all monies paid within 20 days eligibility for financial aid and the deadlines after withdrawal. Please note that the State needed to assure disbursement of funds in a Department has a new travel advisories timely manner. WMU-Cooley students who are interested in the 2018 Toronto Program and alert system using levels and risk should contact the WMU-Cooley Financial Aid indicators. Office immediately to determine their eligibility for financial aid or how this program All students will be promptly notified if, affects their current financial aid eligibility. A during the program, the U.S. State copy of the 2018 financial aid budget for this Department issues a Travel Warning or program will also be available to all guest Alert covering the dates and locations of students. the program. Students will have the opportunity to withdraw and will be CHANGES TO COURSE OFFERINGS OR refunded fees paid, except for room and OTHER SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THE board payments utilized prior to the date PROGRAM of withdrawal. Refunds will be made within 20 days after withdrawal. Please Any changes to course offerings or other note that the State Department has a new significant aspects of the program will be travel advisories and alert system using communicated promptly to every student who levels and risk indicators. has paid a deposit or registered for the program, and an opportunity will be provided TRANSPORTATION for that student to withdraw and obtain a full refund of all monies advanced. Refunds will Students are responsible for their own be made within 20 days after withdrawal. transportation to and from Toronto. After you Once the program begins, a student who arrive, getting around Toronto is easy and fun. withdraws due to any changes to course The nearest subway stops for students staying offerings or other significant aspects of the in Sorbara Hall are the Museum and Wellesley program will be refunded monies paid except stations. for room and board payments utilized prior to the date of withdrawal.

PROGRAM CANCELLATION AND TERMINATION POLICY

This program will be held subject only to minor adjustments due to emergencies, or

St. Michael’s campus subject to force majeure. The program will be cancelled if there is insufficient enrollment. In the unlikely event of a cancellation, students 7 will be notified promptly and all money advanced by students shall be refunded within 20 days of cancellation. WMU-Cooley will make best efforts to arrange for each enrolled student to attend a similar program, if desired, in the event the program is cancelled after a deposit has been paid. Should the program be terminated after it begins, students will be GRADES notified promptly and will be refunded fees paid except for room and board payments Evaluation of students in each course will be utilized prior to the date of termination. through a final examination. Students from other law schools will be registering for these In 2017, Session 2 in the Toronto Program was courses as guest students, and credit for these cancelled due to insufficient enrollment. classes will be presented on an official Western Michigan University Cooley Law School INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES transcript. It is the responsibility of guest students to contact their law school to assure

that credit will transfer into their programs. The St. Michael’s campus is modern and Guest students should also consult with their classrooms are generally accessible for schools to determine the manner in which students with disabilities. Any persons with grades will be recorded on their schools’ special requirements should discuss them with transcripts. the International Programs Office before registering. At WMU-Cooley, most course grades are

based on written final examinations, COURSE SELECTION , CREDIT administered and graded under a system that MAXIMUM AND DROP /A DD assures student anonymity. Professors adhere to established grade definitions. Within that It is important to select courses carefully at the framework, each professor may score the time of application. Students may register for examinations differently and create a separate up to three one-credit courses in one or both grading scale for each course. Grades at Toronto sessions, for a maximum of six WMU-Cooley are known for being hard- semester hours of credit if a student attends earned and truly indicative of a student’s both sessions. Students may not reduce the grasp of the subject matter. WMU-Cooley total number of credit hours for which they does not practice grade inflation. are registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Subject to the ACADEMIC CREDIT AND RESIDENCE preceding conditions, students may drop and add courses on or before set dates during the Acceptance of credit and residence required first week in both sessions if classroom space is for graduation is at the discretion of each available. applicant’s law school. As each course meets or exceeds ABA requirements, most ABA schools will accept credit and grant appropriate residence. If your school will not, please contact WMU-Cooley Registrar Danielle 8

Hall at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2222, or e-mail her STUDENT ATTENDANCE POLICY at [email protected]. Denial of credit or residence frequently results from Attendance is the norm for every class session. misunderstanding that can be resolved by There are no pre-excused absences in any class. direct conversation by WMU-Cooley and your Students should strive for full attendance but dean or administrator. It is unlikely that keep their own records of any absences and the participation in a single summer program may reasons for each absence. Students with be used to accelerate graduation. Students excessive absences can be dismissed from the interested in acceleration should consult the class and may not be permitted to take appropriate administrator in their home examinations, receive credit for courses, or schools to review this issue in light of ABA refunds. Standards.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION LIBRARY RESOURCES Students who successfully complete a WMU- The John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael’s Cooley foreign study program receive a College is available during the program. certificate suitable for framing and may note Students will also have access to the University on their curriculum vitae “Certificate, 2018 of Toronto’s Robarts Library and the Bora Toronto Study Abroad Program, Western Laskin Law Library. Also, a common room in Michigan University Cooley Law School.” It Sorbara Hall will be available as a study area. would be a misrepresentation to assert that you were a student of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto.

“I really enjoyed the class discussions, especially on business practice tips. Prof. Martyn’s teaching style is very helpful and easy to follow, he helps to explain any complex provisions.” 2015 Toronto Student

Kelly Library TRAVEL INFORMATION

ACADEMIC PREPAREDNESS POLICY Currency Converter web page:

Each student at the WMU-Cooley bears www.oanda.com/convert/classic responsibility to prepare and understand the material assigned and to recite in class when Canada Travel: called upon. If circumstances arise which prevent the student from being prepared, it is http://www.canada.travel/ the responsibility of the student to notify the professor before class. Each professor may State Department / Consular / Travel establish a specific preparedness policy for Information: each course. https://step.state.gov/step/

9 https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave will be drawn with the U.S. criminal ladvisories/traveladvisories.html system, law, and procedure. Schedule permitting, the class will have an opportunity https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave to observe a in Superior and a ladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide- Criminal Appeal. caution.html Canadian Professional Responsibility https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter 1 credit – Session 1 / Professor Alejandro Estoup national-travel/International-Travel-Country- Information-Pages/Canada.html Provides an overview of Canadian professional responsibility using the Federal COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Law Societies of Canada Model Code of Professional Conduct. Examines the ethical Canadian (2 credits) dimensions of the . Includes the study 2 credits – Sessions 1 and 2 / Her Worship Justice of the of the ethical obligations of the profession in Peace Mary Ross-Hendriks delivering legal services. Compares the American Bar Association Model Code of A study of Canadian constitutional law, Professional Responsibility, Model Rules of including the Bill of Rights, division of powers Professional Conduct, and Code of Judicial in the Canadian federation, and particular Conduct. emphasis on the Canadian of Rights and Freedoms. The course will provide an International Business Overview introduction to the structure and functioning 1 credit – Session 1 / Professor Alejandro Estoup of the Charter, and review perspectives on the merits and impact of this written rights Considers various aspects of corporate instrument in the Canadian legal, social, and transactions in the context of doing business political context. Explorations of distinctive internationally. Discusses possible tax rights claims, Charter remedies, and the implications and how they would affect notwithstanding clause. Special attention will strategy. Examines how to run a "deal" from be paid to the role of and judging, and due diligence, through structuring, to closing. the balance between Courts and Parliament in Canadian constitutional . NAFTA Overview 1 credit – Session 1 / Professor Murdoch Martyn Canadian 2 credits – Sessions 1 and 2 / Professor James Morton Looks at the NAFTA , focusing on trade in goods, services and investments and how Surveys the Canadian system of criminal and those areas have evolved since the 1989 free substantive Canadian criminal law, with trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada relevant introduced in and the passage of NAFTA. Examines context. Covers the general law and procedure NAFTA’s effect on competition, intellectual embodied in the Canadian Criminal Code property, immigration and taxation law. including classification of offenses; defenses; incapacity and sentencing. Considers the International specific homicide offenses found in the Code. 1 credit – Session 1 / Professor Laura Nemchin Where practicable and relevant, comparisons CANCELLED 10

Covers environmental problems in an Trade and the Environment international context. Emphasizes both 1 credit – Session 2 / Professors James Flagal and customary and treaty law. Considers Laura Nemchin particular issues such as transboundary air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change and Explores international environmental issues in ocean pollution. the context of trade. Considers the multilateral trading system, trade in the Americas, trade in Comparative Corporate Theory and the European Union, trade in endangered Governance species (CITES), and the role of international 1 credit – Session 2 / Professor Leonard Rotman corporations and international finance.

Corporate law has received far greater DIRECTORS attention in the aftermath of the many corporate scandals witnessed post-Enron. Duane A. Strojny , B.A. (Monmouth College), Global governmental responses to corporate J.D. (Marquette University Law School), M.L.S. governance issues have raised fundamental (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). He is a questions about the theories behind Professor and Associate Dean of Library and corporations and how they are governed. This Instructional Support and oversees the course examines the corporate form for the International Programs Office at Western purpose of assessing the implications of its Michigan University Cooley Law School. structure on its internal functioning and Associate Dean Strojny joined WMU-Cooley in external economic and social effects. The 1995 as Head of Information Services for the course takes a critical look at our most basic law school library and was named Associate conceptions of the corporation and how it is Dean in 2002. Prior to joining WMU-Cooley, governed to better understand what Dean Strojny served as Head of Reference for corporations are, why they exist, and how they Marquette University Law Library, function. In the course of this study, we will Reference/Collection Management Librarian examine some particular distinctions between for Marquette University Law Library, the corporate laws of the U.S., Canada, Britain Reference Librarian for the University of and . Miami Law Library, and Night/Weekend Supervisor at the Marquette University Law NAFTA Dispute Settlement Library. He has participated in numerous 1 credit – Session 2 / Professor Murdoch Martyn panels and presentations on law library-related issues, and has authored several articles. He Introduces NAFTA and covers the dispute teaches the electronic research component of settlement procedure, including resolution of Advanced Writing, advanced Lexis and financial services disputes and disputes Westlaw, and CD-Rom and Internet research. between private parties. Discusses counter- vail and anti-dumping provisions and Jonathan L. Black-Branch is the Dean of examines possible changes to dispute Faculty of Law at , University of resolution. . He served as Associate Dean (Education) and Programme Director of Law and Professor of International Law at Royal Holloway University of London. He is a member of Wolfson College, Oxford and 11 former Senior Law Fellow, Greyfriars Hall, 2007). He is a lecturer in at Osgoode Oxford. He is former Head of the Law School Hall and has lectured for the Law Society of and Professor of International and Upper Canada in , insolvency, Comparative Law at the University of legal ethics, negotiation, and advocacy. In Bedfordshire where he was also Director of 2007, he was president of the Ontario Bar Research and Enterprise for the Business Association. For WMU-Cooley, he taught Faculty. He is former Dean and Head of AVT Canadian Evidence Law in 2001. In the Business School in Copenhagen. Professor summer of 2002 he began his service as co- Black-Branch has a Ph.D. from the University director. Over the years he has taught of Toronto and a D.Phil. in Law from the Canadian Constitutional Law, Canadian University of Oxford. He is also a at Evidence Law, and Canadian Criminal Law, Lincoln’s Inn and a in and Canadian Civil Procedure. Professor England and Wales and sits as a in Morton has co-taught Comparative Criminal Oxford. He currently is Chair of the Law, Comparative Criminal Procedure, and Committee on Nuclear Capacity, Non- Comparative Regulatory and Administrative Proliferation and Contemporary International Liability with Mr. Justice Todd Archibald. Law, of the International Law Association and co-editor of the series on Nuclear Non- FACULTY Proliferation in International Law (Asser Publishing). Professor Black-Branch joined our Luis Alejandro (Alex) Estoup , J.D. from Toronto Program faculty in 2005 and taught University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), J.D. European Union Law, International Human from University of Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), Rights, 2005 through 2017, International J.D. from Federation of Law Societies of Economic Law and Institutions, 2008 through Canada (NCA), Ph.D. from Universite de Paris 2016, and Canadian Civil Procedure in 2016 2 Pantheon Assas (France) and LL.M. and Canadian Constitutional Law in 2017. He University of (Canada). was instrumental in creating the Oxford Practitioner in International Business, Program, served as the local co-director 2014 transportation and trade, arbitration, IT, IP and through 2016, and taught European Union Internet law, international , global Law-Institutional Aspects and International finance, tax planning and M&A. Former Business Law those years, and Comparative director of the International Constitutional Law in 2017. edited by Thomson Reuters in Latin America. Author of different books and articles in James C. Morton is our local co-director and a International Business Law and regional trade faculty member. He holds a B.SC. from the agreements. Inter-American Bank Consultant University of Western Ontario, an LL.B. from for worker’s international mobility , and an LL.M. from (expatriated workers), Mercosur’s agreement the University of Leicester. He is certified by negotiator. Professor and lecturer in different the Law Society of Upper Canada as a universities such as Stanford, University of Specialist in Civil Litigation. He is a partner Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, with Morton Karrass LLP. Previously, he was Getulio Vargas, Brazilian Capital Market, Paris a litigation partner with Steinberg Morton 2, in international corporate circulation and Hope & Israel LLP. He authored Guide to global businesses. Global Contractor at Evidence (Lexis-Nexis, 2007) and Procedural Thomson Reuters. Strategies and Tactics in Litigation (Lexis-Nexis, 12

James David Flagal serves as in the Literary Criticism and Semiotics. She earned Ministry of Environment’s Legal Services LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Osgoode Hall Branch in the Province of Ontario. He received Law School. Ms. Nemchin is a member of the B.A. and Masters of Environmental Studies Law Society of Upper Canada and was an degrees from York University. He also holds Adjunct Professor at the University of LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Osgoode Hall Toronto’s Faculty of Law where she taught Law School. He is a member of the Law International Environmental Law. In the fall Society of Upper Canada, where he has served semesters of 2002 and 2003, she was a visiting as an instructor for the Bar researcher at . She and Admission Course. He has also taught James Flagal taught Canadian Environmental regulatory law at other postsecondary Law in 2000 and Canadian Administrative institutions. Both he and Laura Nemchin Law in 2001, 2002, and 2004. From 2005 taught Canadian Environmental Law in 2000 through 2009, and 2010 through 2014, she and Canadian in 2001, taught International Environmental Law. 2002, and 2004. From 2005 through 2015, he taught Trade and the Environment. Her Worship Mary Ross-Hendriks was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in the Murdoch R. Martyn earned B. A. and LL.B. Toronto Region in 2007, and in 2014 a Local degrees from Queen’s University, both with Administrative Justice of the Peace. She Honours, an LL.M. (First Class Honours) from received her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Advanced School and earned LL.M.s from the University International Trade Law Certificate from the of Leicester and York University, Osgoode World Trade Institute at the University of Professional Development. She served as the Bern, Switzerland. Between 1996 and 2003, he vice-chair, and briefly as acting chair, of the practiced as an associate with Outerbridge of Ontario. In 2017, Miller Sefton in Toronto. Since 2003, he has Her Worship received a Canada 150 specialized in international trade and energy Exemplary Canadian award from the Federal law in his own firm. In that capacity, he Government. She is active in community and represents and advises domestic and professional activities. In 2003, Her Worship international clients in international trade delivered WMU-Cooley Law School’s Krinock arbitrations (NAFTA focus) and energy Lecture in the Toronto Program. She taught regulatory matters before federal and International Human Rights in the 2004 provincial boards and . He is an Toronto Program and returns in 2018 to teach adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law Canadian Constitutional Law. School. His professional memberships include the Canadian Bar Association and the Leonard I. Rotman earned his B.A. with Canadian Institute of International distinction from the University of Toronto, Affairs. Professor Martyn has taught NAFTA LL.B. from Queen’s, LL.M. from Osgoode Hall, courses in the Toronto program since 2008. and S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, Laura Nemchin serves as Counsel in the University of Windsor where he taught Ministry of Environment in the Province of Business Associations, Comparative Corporate Ontario. She received a B.A. (Honours) from Theory and Governance and Law The University of Toronto and has taken and has taught comparative at additional work toward a Masters Degree in the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law 13 and the Washington and Lee University School PARKING of Law. In July, 2012, Professor Rotman was named the Chair in Business Parking may be available at St. Michael’s. Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie Information will be provided as it becomes University, where he teaches Business available. Commercial parking is also Associations, Comparative Corporate Theory available in the area. and Governance and Fiduciary Law.

FURTHER INFORMATION Professor Rotman was the inaugural Visiting

Scholar at the Hennick Centre for Business and Upon approval of your application, you will Law at Osgoode Hall Law School for the 2010- receive a detailed student handbook for the 11 academic year and Visiting Scholar at the Toronto program. Anytime you have Centre for the Legal Profession at the Faculty questions, we encourage you to contact us. of Law, University of Toronto in 2014-2015.

He was awarded a T.C. Beirne Distinguished International Programs Director or Visiting Fellowship at the T.C. Beirne School of Associate Dean Law, University of Queensland in Brisbane, 2018 Toronto Program Australia. Professor Rotman taught International Programs Office Comparative Corporate Theory and Western Michigan University Governance in 2011 through 2014. Cooley Law School 300 S. Capitol Avenue Lansing, MI 48933 “Prof. Nemchin is extremely passionate and knowledgeable in the area of environmental law and that Phone: (517) 371-5140 helped make the class so interesting and thought Fax: (517) 334-5722 provoking.” E-mail: [email protected] 2012 Toronto Student

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TORONTO PROGRAM STUDENT CHECKLIST

INFORMATION TO WMU COOLEY LAW SCHOOL

ALL APPLICANTS :

□ Completed application form

□ Completed professionalism form

□ Completed housing form

□ Completed Student Guide acknowledgement form

□ $250 nonrefundable deposit (check or money order made payable to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School or contact us for online payment option; guest students may arrange to charge the deposit to a credit card)

□ Proof of valid passport

□ Proof of medical insurance

□ Proof of online registration with United States Department of State for your travel during the program: https://step.state.gov/step/

APPLICANTS FROM SCHOOLS OTHER THAN WMU COOLEY LAW SCHOOL

□ Official law school transcript from home law school

□ Letter of good standing from home law school

□ Completed tuition/fee payment options form

□ Recent photograph

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