Dr. Patrick Ryan

History 3851F/G - Capitalism and the Law

Fall 2024
Tuesdays, 630-930 PM
FB 110

P. Ryan

E-mail:  pryan2@uwo.ca
Ph:  433-0041 Ext. 4442
Office: W 255
Office Hours: Hours: T 5:30-6:30

 

Academic Program Advisor, Lauren Francis
519-433-3491 x4759
lauren.francis@kings.uwo.ca

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An exploration of legal culture and institutions that structured the rise of capitalism. We will examine the fundamentals of law in historical contexts using the case-method. Students will brief, moot, and compose analyses of historically significant cases in the law of property, contracts, patents/monopolies, torts, corporations, and labour organizations.

Prerequisite(s): 1.0 course at 2200 level or above.

READINGS: 

9 law reports (primary documents) and 9 scholarly articles available on the course schedule. 


MARKING SYSTEM:

Briefs & Moots

As scheduled

32 %

Exam 1

Oct. 29

34 %

Exam 2

December Exam Period

34 %


ABSENCE, ACCOMMODATION, & PENALTIES:

Any usage of artificial intelligence or language generation or translation applications by students to complete assigned work for this course must be approved by the instructor and noted by the student in the submitted work itself. Writing text and then feeding it into a computer application to improve or translate your own words, changing a few words, and then submitting this text as if it was your own constitutes plagiarism. You must compose text, choose words, construct logic flow, structure sentences and paragraphs to organize, synthesize, interpret information with your own mind. When you borrow language or ideas from another person or from a machine this must be acknowledged with quotation marks and/or citations.

Students are expected to schedule appointments and other responsibilities around class time.  


COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WIDE ACADEMIC POLICIES:
Please click above and read, because these apply to this course.