Cc207 Br

**Date**:May 28, 2025

**Location**: Brantford, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Human & Social Sciences

**Department**: N/A

**Campus**: Brantford

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9572

**Position Title**: Course Instructor: CC207 BR - Criminal Courts and Trials

**Term**: Fall 2025 (Sept 1 - Dec 31)

**Days/Times**: Mondays 16:00 - 18:50

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 per week/36 total

**Anticipated Class Size**: 200

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on: May 28, 2025**

**Posting ends: June 12, 2025**

**Position Summary**:
This course concerns how criminal law is practiced in Canadian criminal courts. Topics to be addressed include the structure, organization and hierarchy of the Canadian criminal courts as well as the rights and duties of, and interaction between, such criminal law practitioners as Crown counsel, defence attorneys and judges. Other topics may include: the adversary system; fair trial rights; disclosure; trial by jury; criminal lawyers' ethics; courtroom environment, protocol and procedure; the role of criminal law practitioners during plea-bargaining, bail hearings, trial, sentencing and the appeal.

**Qualifications - Required**: Master’s Degree

**Qualifications - Other**: MA in Criminology, Criminal Justice, or a cognate discipline (e.g. sociology) that is clearly and directly connected to the course content, and with a focus on crime or deviance. Work experience in the field is an asset, as is prior teaching experience**.**(MEd / EdD will not be considered to meet the minimum educational requirement).** PhD or ABD preferred.

**Salary**: $9,206.40

**Application Deadline: June 12, 2025**

**Submit with Application**:
**Required for All Applicants**:

- On the CAF, applicants must clearly outline only those qualifications which are relevant for each course for which they have applied and articulate how their work and academic experience enhances their ability to teach each course.

**Required for External Applicants**:

- Name and contact information for referees.

**Optional**:
**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. James Popham

Department of Criminology

Wilfrid Laurier University

Brantford, Ontario

**To Apply**:
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