L4S Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours in Law

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 5 Years, up to a maximum of 11 Years
Duration
Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

Hobart: Semester 1, 5 Week Session Jun

This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students

Due to the circumstances around COVID-19, you will begin your studies online. However, when Government guidelines change, on-campus studies will be reintroduced.

The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours is an on-campus 5-year full-time course offered by the College of Science and Engineering and the School of Law and is available at Hobart. The first year only is also offered at the Launceston and Cradle Coast campus. This course may be studied part-time.

This course entry refers to the fifth/final year of the Law program which is the Honours year. Please see Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws 63L1 for information on the first four years of this course.

Students are invited to transfer to the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor or Laws with Honours (L4S), five year program, in their final year of study.

Course objectives

The objectives of the combined degree courses are those of the component degrees. Reference should be made to the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws course entries.

The Bachelor of Laws Honours course is the basic academic preparation for persons who wish to enter the legal profession and other careers involving legal work. The course also has wider applicability in developing the attributes and skills inherent in a general university education. Students develop the values and intellectual abilities necessary to marshal facts and to critically assess and evaluate information, theories and doctrines thus preparing themselves for a variety of career roles.

Learning outcomes

Learning Outcomes for the Law Honours year are as follows:

Understand the fundamental areas of legal knowledge.
Understand the broader contexts in which legal issues arise.
Identify and apply the principles and values of justice.
Possess the intellectual and practice skills to research, evaluate and synthesise factual, legal and policy issues.
Apply legal research and reasoning to deliver evidence based responses to legal issues.
Think creatively.
A capacity to apply legal reasoning and through research generate an appropriately creative, critical and reasoned response to legal issues.
Communicate in a coherent and professionally appropriate way for the context.
Capacity to work and learn independently – and make use of feedback and reflection to support personal development.
Refine research questions, identify appropriate reference sources and methodologies, distil and analyse information to produce a well justified outcome/response.
Act in accordance with ethical research precepts, and develop an understanding of approaches to ethical decision making.

Career outcomes

Graduates of combined degrees could expect to find open to them all the career paths that are open to graduates of the component degree courses.

A law degree is a prerequisite to admission as a legal practitioner. Today, however, employers from a widening range of disciplines value the skills that law graduates possess. A range of career choices lie open to law graduates as a solicitor, barrister, industry legal officer or ministerial adviser, as well as in legal aid, community legal centres, the Attorney-General's department, law reform commissions, consumer affairs, environment, foreign affairs, police, legal drafting, politics, banking, finance, journalism, publishing and teaching.

Course structure

Compulsory items

LAW COMPONENT

Year 1

LAW121

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2
Launceston	Semester 1
Launceston	Semester 2

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Spring school (late)
Launceston	Spring school (late)
Cradle Coast	Spring school (late)

Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours in Law (L4S)

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Career outcomes

Course structure

Compulsory items

Introduction to Law

Legal Systems

Semester 1

Legal Reasoning

Foundations of Private Law

Semester 2

Contract Law

Torts

Semester 1

Foundations of Public Law

International Law

Semester 2

Administrative Law

Constitutional Law

Semester 1

Property Law

Criminal Law A

Equity and Trusts

Choose one Advanced level unit from the other (non-Law) component

Semester 2

Corporations Law 1

Criminal Law B and Criminal Procedure

Choose two Law elective units from the list below

Labour Law

Competition Law

Law of the Oceans and the Antarctic

Corporations Law 2

Law of Nations

Comparative Administrative Law

International Environmental Law

Comparative Law

Biotechnology Law

Indigenous Peoples and the Law

Law - History and Context

Concepts of Property

International Humanitarian Law

Law Review

Sports Law

Parliamentary Law and Practice

Advocacy

Animal Law

International Criminal Procedure

Human Rights

Law of the European Union

Jessup Moot

Criminology

Current Issues in Environmental Law and Policy

Dispute Resolution

Environmental Law

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law

Community Legal Practice

International Arbitration

Competition Moot Unit

Media Law

Australian Citizenship and Immigration Law

Climate Change Law and Policy

Sex Crimes and Criminals

Comparative Water Law

Tax 1

International Trade Law

Intellectual Property

Consumer Protection

Information Technology Law

International Criminal Law

Issues in Criminal Justice

Supervised Research Paper

Family Law

Succession

Conflicts (Private International Law)

Sentencing

Transitional Governance