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Place a legal question in the right branch of law and recognize the structure of the analysis your courses build on.

How to study it

Each lesson opens with its key points. Read them before class and the lecture will be easier to follow.
Underlined terms open a definition. Build the vocabulary as you go.
The problems at the end follow the facts, rule, application and conclusion structure used on exams.

The syllabus

1. Structure and Organization of the Modern Administrative State
  Who makes the rules in Canada and Québec, and who applies them.
  Administrative Law & Judicial Review
  Up next25 minStep 1
2. Enjoyment and Exercise of Civil Rights
  The person, rights and capacity that every legal relationship depends on.
  Persons & Civil Rights
  16 minStep 2
3. Classification of Property in Québec Civil Law
  How the Civil Code sorts things, property and rights.
  Property & Publication of Rights
  14 minStep 3
4. Obligations and Contracts: Series Overview
  How obligations and contracts organize private law.
  Obligations & Contracts
  22 minStep 4
5. General Conditions of Civil Liability for Personal Acts
  The basic structure of a civil liability claim.
  Civil Responsibility
  22 minStep 5
6. The Quebec Civil Case: From Dispute to Outcome
  How a civil dispute becomes a case and reaches judgment.
  Civil Procedure
  7 minStep 6
7. Sources and Scope of Quebec Civil Evidence Rules
  Where the rules of evidence come from and what they govern.
  Evidence in Quebec Civil Law
  16 minStep 7
8. Introduction to General Criminal Law
  The sources of criminal law and the structure of the analysis.
  General Principles of Criminal Law
  9 minStep 8
9. Foundations, Constitutional Jurisdiction, and Constitutive Laws in Quebec Corporate Practice
  How jurisdiction and constitutive statutes shape business law.
  Corporate & Commercial Practice
  29 minStep 9
From the course Persons & Civil Rights
1. The Name: Assignment, Use and Change
  16 minStep 10
2. Domicile and Residence: Locating the Person in Civil Law
  16 minStep 11
3. Civil Status: Building, Correcting and Proving the Record
  18 minStep 12
4. Minority and Emancipation
  17 minStep 13
5. Respect for the Child's Rights
  17 minStep 14
6. Tutorship to a Minor
  17 minStep 15
7. Adult Tutorship and Support Measures
  16 minStep 16
8. Protection Mandate
  16 minStep 17
9. Integrity of the Person: Care, Consent and Confinement
  22 minStep 18
10. Privacy, Reputation and Civil Liability
  17 minStep 19
11. Absence and Death: Protecting Rights under Uncertainty
  17 minStep 20
12. Respect for the Body After Death
  16 minStep 21
From the course Obligations & Contracts
1. Introduction to the Law of Obligations
  22 minStep 22
2. Core Rules of Contract Formation, Validity, and Effects
  27 minStep 23
3. Other Sources of Obligations: Management of Business, Payment Not Due, and Unjustified Enrichment
  21 minStep 24
4. Performance, Default, and Remedies for Non-Performance
  23 minStep 25
5. Modalities of Obligations: Conditions, Terms, and Pluralities
  24 minStep 26
6. Assignment, Subrogation, Novation, and Delegation of Obligations
  23 minStep 27
7. Extinguishment of Obligations: Compensation, Confusion, Release, and Impossibility
  20 minStep 28
8. Restitution of Performances: Principles, Modalities, and Third Parties
  20 minStep 29
From the course Civil Responsibility
1. Introduction to Damage (Prejudice) in Quebec Civil Law
  17 minStep 30
2. Damage as a Condition of Liability
  18 minStep 31
3. Liability for the Act or Fault of Another and for Things
  18 minStep 32
4. Exemption and Apportionment of Liability
  18 minStep 33
5. Civil Liability and State Compensation Schemes
  17 minStep 34
6. Prescription in Quebec Civil Law
  18 minStep 35
From the course Property & Publication of Rights
1. Classification of Immovables in Québec Civil Law
  14 minStep 36
2. Classification of Movables in Québec Civil Law
  15 minStep 37
3. Patrimony and Real Rights in Québec Civil Law
  14 minStep 38
4. Public and Private Property in Québec
  14 minStep 39
5. Possession and detention: facts, proof and legal effects
  14 minStep 40
6. Ownership: powers, extent and legal limits
  15 minStep 41
7. Ownership Limits: Abuse of Rights and Neighbourhood Disturbances
  14 minStep 42
8. Water, Trees and Common Fences in Quebec Property Law
  14 minStep 43
9. Access, Views, and Passage Between Neighbouring Properties
  17 minStep 44
From the course General Principles of Criminal Law
1. Classification of Offences
  11 minStep 45
2. Actus Reus: The Material Element of the Offence
  11 minStep 46
3. Subjective Mens Rea: The Mental Element of the Offence
  11 minStep 47
4. Objective Mens Rea: The Mental Element of the Offence
  10 minStep 48
5. Actus Reus & Mens Rea: Coincidence and Common-Sense Inference
  10 minStep 49
6. Participation in Offences by Natural Persons
  11 minStep 50
7. Inchoate and Accessory Offences
  10 minStep 51
8. Preliminary Considerations in Criminal Defences
  10 minStep 52
9. Mistake of Fact and Mistake of Law
  12 minStep 53
10. Consent, Age, Alibi and Other Defence Issues
  12 minStep 54
11. Mental Disorder Defence
  13 minStep 55
12. Automatism
  8 minStep 56
13. Intoxication
  11 minStep 57
From the course Administrative Law & Judicial Review
1. The Classification of Administrative Acts in Canadian and Quebec Law
  Classify an administrative act and identify its legal effects.
  25 minStep 58
2. Delegated Legislation and Subordinate Regulations
  See how regulations are made and when they are valid.
  22 minStep 59
3. Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review in Canada
  Why courts review administrative decisions at all.
  25 minStep 60
4. Standards of Review in Canadian Administrative Law
  Reasonableness and correctness, and when each applies.
  24 minStep 61
5. Procedural Fairness in Canadian and Quebec Administrative Law
  What a fair process requires of a decision-maker.
  26 minStep 62

An independently curated sequence. Every lesson also lives in its own course, and your progress is shared between the two.