The College of Law Spring and Summer Law Courses for Indigenous Students - An eight-week course offered to provide Indigenous students from across Canada an opportunity to study Property Law before starting law school. Most Canadian law schools recognize the Spring and Summer Program for a first-year Property Law credit in law school. Having this course prior to law school equips the law student with legal skills to be successful in law school and lightens the course load in first year.

 Students who will be attending the University of Saskatchewan College of Law in Fall 2023 are required to register in both courses and will receive credit (8 credit units) upon successful completion, thereby reducing their course load in the 2023/2024 academic year. Students attending other institutions are required to register in Property law only, but can also enrol in the other course if they wish. Students attending other institutions are encouraged to seek letters of permission to enrol at the University of Saskatchewan to ensure that credit for these courses will be recognized.

Law 210.5 Property Law

A survey of the law of personal, real and aboriginal property and the forms and methods by which interests in property are created, used and transferred including an overview of English land law and its introduction to, and use in, Saskatchewan and Canada.

Law 232.3 Kwayeskastasowin Setting Things Right

A course in Aboriginal people and the law, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations. The course will also examine issues such as oppression based on race and dispute resolution in Indigenous communities.

You must meet two requirements to be admitted into the College of Law's Spring and Summer Law Courses for Indigenous students :

1. You must be Indigenous, and
2. You must have been accepted into a Canadian law school (conditionally or unconditionally) and be starting your first year in the coming fall.

Please note, as part of the application, students are required to upload proof of acceptance to a Canadian law school as an Indigenous student. For example, this could be a letter of admission that the student received from the Canadian law school where it should specify that the student is receiving an Indigenous seat at that law school, with classes commencing in the Fall term.

Get in touch with the College of Law early in the academic year as you begin to apply to law schools. We are here to talk about your options and to help with the application process for both law schools and the College of Law's Spring and Summer Law Courses for Indigenous students

• • Once you have applied to a Canadian law school, candidates interested in the College of Law Spring and Summer Law Courses are encouraged to begin the application process as soon as possible. If the Program has to limit enrollment, priority will be given to students who submit applications by April 6.

• • The admissions process for the 2023 Spring and Summer Law Courses for Indigenous Students is now open. Please visit https://apply.usask.ca/ to access the application. After creating an account, please select “Start application” and under “Choose an application”, select “Take undergraduate classes as a visiting or audit student”. When prompted to select a “Student Category”, please choose “Visiting student” from the drop-down menu. For questions, please email ilc.admissions@usask.ca.

All students who are accepted into the course will be automatically registered into the courses. Each student will receive an account to show their balance for tuition and student fees. Students will be responsible to pay their balance by the USask deadline.

Deadline to Apply: April 6, 2022

PROGRAM COSTS

Tuition:

• • • Law 210.5 Property Law: $2,713
    • Law 232.3 Kwayeskastasowin – Setting Things Right: $1,627.80

 

Student fees: $276.94

Deadline to apply: April 20

1. Log into the Scholarships and Bursarieschannel in PAWS (paws.usask.ca/go/awards)
2. Click on the green “Apply for awards”button 
3. Click on the “Select Application Form”scroll-down menu under “Current Students” 
4. Select the “2023 College of Law Indigenous Summer Law Program Awards”; click “Apply” 

QUESTIONS?

Contact:

Martin Phillipson, Dean, College of Law

Email: martin.phillipson@usask.ca | Phone: 306-966-5910