Gradaute Fellowship in Reproductive Health LAw

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University of Toronto, faculty of law
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario    M5S 2C5


              Graduate Fellowship in Reproductive Health Law
                   at the University of Toronto, Canada


The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce the
creation of a Graduate Fellowships in Reproductive Health Law, to be
awarded to students pursuing  the degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.) or
Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) within the Faculty's Graduate
Programme. The Fellowship is designed to permit a law graduate from Africa,
the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, Central or Eastern Europe,
or Asia, and in particular, Brazil, India, Mexico or Nigeria, who has
experience in working on reproductive and sexual rights in their own
countries to undertake advanced research and study in this emerging field
of law. The  Graduate Programme at the Faculty of Law is designed to permit
students of outstanding merit to undertake advanced research and study in
law. It is a competitive programme admitting approximately 30 students each
year from all regions of the world.

The Graduate Fellowship in Reproductive Health Law is designed to enable a
law graduate to explore the legal and ethical issues in reproductive and
sexual health, such as the multiple causes of maternal mortality;  barriers
to availability of and access to reproductive health services; the
prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS;
and abusive sexual relationships. Beyond the required graduate seminar in
Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship and the foundation course in
Reproductive and Sexual Health Law, course work is designed on an
individual basis.

Students are encouraged to select other courses relevant to their plan of
study, such as courses addressing medical law and ethics, national and
international protection of human rights including women's rights, family
law issues including violence against women, feminism and the law, law and
development and law and society issues. Given the Faculty's support of
interdisciplinary approaches to legal scholarship, students holding this
Fellowship may also register for courses in other departments of the
university and  in Women's Studies and Bioethics through the Collaborative
Degree Programmes.

In addition to formal courses, students are encouraged to participate in
workshops held at the Faculty of Law, the Joint Centre for Bioethics and
the Centre for Research on Women's Health. Students are also encouraged to
undertake an internship related to their research for approximately 10
weeks with a relevant organization, arranged through the Faculty's
International Human Rights Programme.

Academic Requirements

Applicants to the LL.M. degree programme must hold a Bachelor of Laws
(LL.B.) degree from a recognized university, or possess equivalent
qualifications in law, and must normally have achieved a B+ or comparable
standing.

The full-time LL.M. programme is designed as a 12-month programme. The
thesis intensive LL.M. involves a minimum eight credit hours of coursework
and the writing of a major thesis of approximately 100 to 120 pages under
the supervision of a faculty member. The coursework intensive LL.M.
involves a minimum of twenty-four credit hours of coursework and the
writing of a shorter thesis of approximately 50 to 60 pages, in the context
of one course.

An applicant for the S.J.D. programme must either hold an LL.M. from a
recognized university or possess equivalent qualifications (e.g.
significant publication record), and must normally have achieved a B+ or
comparable standing. The S.J.D. programme has a residency requirement of
one academic year, however the completion of the thesis work usually takes
a further two years beyond this requirement.

Admission to both programs is competitive and not all candidates holding
the minimum qualifications can be admitted.

English Fluency ? Written and Oral

It is essential that applicants to either programme have a sufficient
command of the written and spoken English language. Applicants whose
primary language is not English and who have not completed at least one
year of coursework at a post-secondary institution where the language of
instruction is English must have completed one of the following tests at
the time an application is submitted:  Test of English as a Foreign
Language (TOEFL), International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or
the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB). Details of these
tests and minimum score requirements can be found in the application
package.

Value

Fellowships provide a living stipend of  up to CDN$15,000. In addition,
this Fellowship will also cover academic tuition and student fees and
travel to and from Canada.

Deadline for application: February 01 of each year

For Inquiries and Application Forms, please contact:
Graduate Admissions Office
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
78 Queen's Park
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/grad                          4/4/02