LAWS387-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Advanced Public Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

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 examines theories of public law scholarship in key areas of the discipline. These areas include: 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 4,000 words and deliver an oral presentation to the class on their research.

In 2018 two two-hour lectures will be delivered by international advocate , Dr Gerard McCoy QC. His topic will be the Teina Pora judicial review challenge that was heard in the High Court in July 2017. As advocate for Pora, Dr McCoy successfully argued that Pora's compensation award of $2.5m for wrongful conviction and imprisonment should be inflation adjusted to take account of the 22 years that Pora was in jail. Dr McCoy will use the case to discuss the many facets of a public law challenge in the courts.

Dr McCoy is a member of the Hong Kong bar, where he is widely regarded as the leading public law Silk. He also occasionally represents litigants in the New Zealand courts on a pro bono basis.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Philip Joseph

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Research Paper 10 Sep 2018 30%
Presentation 20%
In-Class Test 12 Sep 2018 50%


The assessment may be by way of an in-class test (worth 50%), and a research paper (4,000 words)(worth 50%).

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

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $790.00

International fee $3,600.00

* 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 .

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  • LAWS387-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018
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