Congratulations on a successful application to a very unique program here in Canada!

We are pleased that you have chosen our program for your continued studies and aim to provide you with an intellectually stimulating and congenial environment in which you will feel both challenged and supported as you work towards the completion of your PhD degree.

We sincerely hope that your time spent in the program and in Ottawa will be extremely rewarding, filled with new experiences, new and long-lasting friendships and of course academic success culminating in the completion of the PhD program in Legal Studies.  If there is anything we can do to assist you towards the realization of your goals, please let us know.  The Department of Law and Legal Studies has many resources from which to draw from.  Faculty, staff and senior students in the program would be happy to help you as you begin your graduate studies and throughout your stay here at Carleton University.

Special Meetings 

PhD Orientation (Mandatory)
Date: September 8, 2020
Time:11:15am (EST) – 12:15pm (EST)
By Videoconference (Zoom details will be emailed prior to the meeting)

TA Information

Orientation

Carleton offers a Teaching Assistants Orientation for new TAs each fall.  Attendance is mandatory, so please return for updates on the date, time and location for this meeting.

Visit the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGPA) website for more information on New Graduate Student and TA Orientation, which will be scheduled early in September (specific details regarding date, time and location will be finalized and posted here, as well as the link above as soon as this information becomes available).

New TA orientation (Hosted by Law & Legal Studies)
Sept 8th, 2:00 pm- 3:30 pm on Zoom
Departmental TA orientation for new TAs in Law and Legal Studies. Please join us for general orientation to your role and duties and to ask any questions you may have before you get started. Registration for the orientation is on Carleton Central (https://central.carleton.ca) under TA Management > TA Training > TA Training Registration > Law and Legal Studies – New TA Departmental Orientation. The Zoom link will be sent to all TAs in the Dept. shortly before the meeting.