Hobart, Launceston
This unit has been discontinued.
The July Intensive Session will run: 1-8 July, 2020
Introduction
This unit provides an introductory overview of the interplay between the various legal systems which impact on our contemporary Australian legal regime. Specifically, the unit will consider the Aboriginal legal system (before and after white settlement), the reception and application of the Common Law legal system, and the modern impact of the public international legal system.
Summary 2020
| Unit name | Legal Systems |
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| Unit code | LAW122 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education Faculty of Law |
| Discipline | Law |
| Coordinator | Dr. Charlotte Hunn |
| Teaching staff | Semester 2 – Dr. Charlotte Hunn Intensive Session July – Professor Margaret Otlowski |
| Level | Introductory |
| Available as student elective? | Yes |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
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Requisites
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Standard Offering (Hobart): 2 x 50 minute lectures (run consecutively) each week for 13 weeks, plus one 50 x minute seminar each week for 9 weeks during the semester. Note that this is a blended unit combining face-to-face and online teaching sessions. Intensive Offering (Launceston and Cradle Coast Campus): Launceston – Daily workshop 10am-2pm As this is an intensive teaching unit, students will be expected to do some further learning activities outside the workshop hours. This will be a blended unit combining face-to-face and online teaching sessions. |
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| Assessment | Standard Offering (Hobart): Mooting performance report 20%, Intensive Offering (Launceston, Cradle Coast Campus): 1 x 5 minute oral presentation providing judgement in an international law moot case 20% |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
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