1. The nature of law -- 2. Legal pluralism -- 3. Sources of law -- 4. Legal history: Britain -- 5. Legal history: Canada -- 6. Legal history: civil law in Canada -- 7. The Constitution, part 1. The British North America Act (1867) -- 8. The Constitution, part 2. The Constitution Act, 1982 -- 9. The Charter, part 1. Fundamental freedoms, and democratic, mobility and legal rights -- 10. The Charter, part 2. Equality and language rights, remedies and application -- 11. Government in Canada -- 12. Courts: participants, types and organization -- 13. Courts across Canada -- 14. Access to justice -- 15. Administrative law -- 16. Lawyers -- 17. Judges -- 18. Substance and process of the law.