Academic Program
The McGill Summer Program in Arbitration is held at the McGill Law Faculty in New Chancellor Day Hall, located at 3644 Peel Street. Located at the bottom of Mont Royal in downtown Montréal, the Law Faculty is an ideal environment for learning. The campus is a composite of older and modern buildings that reflect the importance of McGill's historical and contemporary status as a distinguished North American institution of higher learning. Students have access to the law library and wireless access. The program pays for wireless Internet access.
The Summer Program's curriculum consists of basic and specialized courses in arbitration. All classes are conducted in English and none of the courses have prerequisites. They are offered Monday through Friday and each course culminates in a one hour exam at the end of the session. Each course consists of one credit hour. The two Introductory Courses — An Introduction to Arbitration and Consumer Arbitration — are taught in the first session. The four Specialized Courses — ICC Arbitration, the Model Law on Arbitration, ICSID Arbitration, and NAFTA Arbitration — are taught by law professors who are specialists in the area.
U.S. law students will be joined by McGill Law Faculty students in all of the courses. The two groups will take the same examinations but will be graded as separate groups — each subject to their sponsoring institution's grading policy. All J.D. students in the program are subject to Penn State's grading curve, which treats the program courses as a seminar or small class with a median grade of B+/mean of 3.0 –3.6. Non-Penn State J.D. students should check with their home institutions regarding their conversion policy. The latter generally attribute a pass or credit to grades of C or C+ or better. Additionally, unless a student has substantial prior exposure to arbitration law, he or she must take all six credit hours to receive the program certificate.
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Please contact Professor Thomas Carbonneau if you have any questions.
