LAWS387-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Advanced Public Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 20 May 2016

Description

Advanced Public Law will examine theories of public law scholarship in key areas of the discipline. It will examine the primary materials and specialist writings such as: parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, judicial review, independence of the judiciary, parliamentary privilege and the Treaty of Waitangi. In addition, students will conduct research on an approved public law topic, write an essay of 3,000 words and deliver an oral presentation to the class on their research.

Advanced Public Law will examine theories of public law scholarship in key areas of the discipline. It will examine the primary materials and specialist writings on parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, parliamentary privilege, administrative law scholarship and the Treaty of Waitangi.

Lectures in Term One will be interactive, with students broken into groups for class presentations. In addition, students will conduct research on an approved public law topic, write an essay of 4,000 words and each student will present his/her paper in class during Term Two.

One of the course objectives is to promote the ability and confidence of students to make formal class presentations and navigate Q&A sessions.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS110;  (ii) LAWS101 and  (iii) LAWS206

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Philip Joseph

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 08 Apr 2016 50%
Evening Test 11 May 2016 50%


The assessment may be by way of an In Class Test (worth 50%), and a research paper (4,000 words) and presentation (worth 50%).

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $759.00

International fee $3,450.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 28

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS387 Occurrences

  • LAWS387-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016