York's interdisciplinary program in Socio-Legal Studies builds on York’s long tradition of law & society teaching and research.

• Contributing faculty are leaders in international and domestic
• human rights, socio-historical approaches to law, transnational
• policing, immigration and border security, indigenous rights, and global
• financial crime, and gender, race, sexuallity and the law.

The one-year MA program offers students courses in socio-legal theory and methods as well as a required Major Research Paper.

 

York's PhD in Socio-Legal Studies is at the vanguard of a growing number of postgraduate programs in Europe and North America in interdisciplinary legal studies. Our PhD is the first such doctoral program in Canada that is not based in a law school. Students who are accepted into our program will join faculty with a strong commitment to research and scholarship. Our program consists of scholars drawn from law and society, criminology, political science, sociology, psychology, history, communication studies, women's studies, and law.