units

LAW5000

Faculty of Law

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Law

Quota applies

Postgraduate programs are based on a model of small group teaching and therefore class sizes need to be restricted.

Offered

City (Melbourne)

  • Trimester 1 2016 (Day)
  • Trimester 2 2016 (Day)
  • Trimester 3 2016 (Day)

Notes

For postgraduate Law discontinuation dates, please see http://www.monash.edu/law/current-students/postgraduate/pg-jd-discontinuation-dates
For postgraduate Law unit timetables, please see http://law.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-unit-information/timetables/postgraduate/index.html
Previously coded as LAW7470

Synopsis

The unit provides students who are new to the study of Australian law with advanced knowledge and understanding of the Australian legal system, its underlying principles and concepts (including international and comparative contexts), principles of justice and approaches to ethical legal practice; and advanced practical and professional skills to undertake legal research, interpret legislation and judicial decision, analyse factual and policy issues, demonstrate professional judgment and scholarship to formulate and evaluate solutions to legal problems, collaborate and communicate effectively.

Outcomes

At the successful completion of this unit, students will demonstrate knowledge and skills to:

  1. design and implement an efficient research strategy which requires them to synthesise relevant legal, factual and policy issues;
  2. apply professional judgment and critical thinking skills to interpret legal conclusions and legislation, evaluate alternative constructions and justify a considered opinion;
  3. generate appropriate responses to legal problems and communicate them in a form appropriate for legal practice or scholarship; and
  4. exercise professional judgment in responding to ethical issues that arise in legal practice or the administration of justice.

Assessment

1. Tutorial participation and activities: 10%
2. Research assignment (3,500 words): 50%
3. Take home examination (3,000 words): 40%
4. Attendance at two library tutorials is a hurdle requirement for sitting the examination.

Workload requirements

Students enrolled in this unit will be provided with 24 contact hours of seminars per semester whether intensive, semi-intensive, or semester-long offering plus 6 hours of library and 6 hours of tutorials. Students will be expected to do reading set for class, and to undertake additional research and reading applicable to a 6 credit point unit.

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Martine Marich Trimester 1
Dr Azadeh Dastyari Research ProfileResearch Profile (http://monash.edu/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=8388&pid=4030) Trimester 2
Assc Prof Moira Paterson Research ProfileResearch Profile (http://monash.edu/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=262&pid=2627) Trimester 3