| Title | Opening Up Tort Law Courses |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Allard School of Law |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2023 |
| Project Summary | Tort law—the law of “wrongs”—is a compulsory law school course. It is typically taught from commercially published books. In 2021, I published Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries, https://canlii.ca/t/t9st, an online open-access Canadian tort law casebook. This prototype resource has revealed demand for open-access law school teaching resources—including torts materials—and illustrates the feasibility of using technology to create learning materials that surpass the content and scope of what existing resources offer. My project will create a new package of open tort law resources designed to expose first-year and upper-level students to common law torts in a global context. It will comprise:
These resources will be designed for use in multiple Allard Law courses and in law schools around Canada and the world. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2023/2024 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Samuel Beswick |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 23,891 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Samuel Beswick, Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2024/2025 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Samuel Beswick |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 16,109 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Samuel Beswick, Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law |