• Successful candidates will receive a minimum of $20,000 in funding for the 2027-2028 academic year.
• Research proposals on any legal topic will be considered.
• For the 2027 intake, preference may be given to proposals that focus on these highlighted LLM resarch areas:
  
  • Access to justice
  • Administrative law
  • Canadian constitutional law
  • Canadian Aboriginal law or US federal Indian law
  • Charter of Rights
  • Child welfare
  • Children's rights
  • Comparative law
  • Comparative constitutional law
  • Cultural rights
  • Criminal law (domestic)
  • Criminal procedure
  • Dance/law
  • Death and dying
  • Democracy and good governance
  • Environmental and natural resources law (climate litigation, climate jurisprudence)
  • Evidence
  • Family law
  • Feminist legal theory
  • Indigenous governance
  • International law
  • Jurisprudence
  • Law and human bodies
  • Law and humanities
  • Legal theory
  • Medical law
  • Medico-legal history law
  • Police powers
  • Relationships between communities and constitutional rights/human rights
  • Rule of law issues in developing countries
  • Teaching scholarship in law, competencies, legal pedagogy

Up to two successful candidates (any student conducting Indigenous legal research or Indigenous LLM students) will receive $25,000 in funding for the 2027-2028 academic year.

Indigenous legal research in the LLM program

Indigenous research areas are a strength at the college, as many of our faculty are leaders in these areas. The college is also home to the Indigenous Law Centre, which serves as a hub for Indigenous students and research.

Indigenous students undertaking LLM research

USask Law has funding for Indigenous students interested in beginning LLM studies at the college. They may choose to focus their research on any legal topic. Preference may be given to students who choose to focus their research on one of the highlighted LLM research areas noted above.  

• Students must begin their program in September 2027.
• Deadline to apply for the LLM program is Dec. 15, 2026.

• Apply now

Questions? Contact law.gradstudies@usask.ca

Or check out our Master of Laws page. 

• Master of Laws

Leaders in legal scholarship

USask Law is the oldest law school in Western Canada and has provided public service, innovative legal education and high-quality legal scholarship to Saskatchewan and beyond since 1912.

Our alumni are judicial, political, academic, and private and public sector leaders across the country. The school’s faculty members are award-winning teachers, recognized for their innovation and effectiveness.

The college has strengths in numerous fields, including: dispute resolution, constitutional law, Indigenous law and access to justice.

Interdisciplinary research

USask Law also hosts two important centres: the Indigenous Law Centre and CREATE Justice. As a result, there are opportunities for significant interdisciplinary partnerships between the college and other academic units on campus. The college has embraced the interdisciplinary opportunities presented by being part of a major research-intensive university. This is reflected in how the school values the creation and dissemination of diverse forms of knowledge and using that knowledge to better the human condition.

Endowed chairs:

The college hosts three major endowed chairs:

• Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights
• Law Foundation of Saskatchewan H. Robert Arscott Chair
• Estey Chair in Business Law

Distinguished scholars from Canada and around the world have served terms in the college, enriching the academic life at USask Law.