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Note: Students must have a B average in LAWS courses in order to enrol in this course.
Applications for this course closed on 19 October 2018.The research project consists of a 7,000 word research essay on an agreed topic supervised by a member of staff.Students considering enrolling for this option may wish to consult the Course Co-ordinator, Prof Lynne Taylor.Student must then contact the School of Law Academic Administrator to ensure they meet the LAWS GPA requirement before approaching a suitable supervisor. Once the LAWS GPA is confirmed, students should then consult with a suitable supervisor (must be a member of the continuing academic Law staff) and complete and return the LAWS348 Record Form to the Academic Administrator. Once the completed LAWS348 Record Form has been received, students should Apply to Enrol via a Change of Enrolment. Summer school courses are open for ATEs from early October.Students need to be aware that this course will close for Applications to Enrol on Friday 19 October 2018. No enrolments past this date will be considered.Research projects are required to be your own unassisted original research and may not duplicate work done for research papers or essays in other courses, including work done in earlier years.Note: A 'B' average required in order to be eligible to enrol in this course. Students must have completed, or be completing, LAWS200 level/LAWS301 and have undertaken at least one Group B 300 level course.
Students will be expected to gain a solid knowledge of the relevant legal framework of their research topic and to develop their capacity to critically analyse issues and developments in their field of research. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Carry out independent research; Communicate the findings of their research; Understand, explain and apply relevant legal instruments; Understand and explain the relationship between different legal instruments; Relate the knowledge acquired to current matters of legal discourse; Locate primary materials relevant to the research project; Subject those primary materials to critical analysis and use them to create a legal argument; Read, understand, interpret and critique primary sources and the rules relating to their operation; and Identify legal issues in factual scenarios and to construct legal responses to those issues.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110
LAWS379 (prior to 2006)
LAWS202-LAWS206
There are no scheduled lectures for this course.
Lynne Taylor and Elizabeth Macpherson
A draft of the research essay is due by 12noon, Monday 21 January 2019. Your supervisor will then provide you with feedback by Monday 28 January 2019.The final research essay is due by 12noon, Monday 4 February 2019. The paper must be emailed to the Academic Administrator. with a copy uploaded to LEARN at the time of submission. The uploaded copy must be a word document (not pdf, etc).Please Note: This research paper word count of 7,000 words, EXCLUDES footnotes, provided they do not include large amounts of explanatory text.
Mary-Rose Russell (Gen Ed); Legal Research in New Zealand ; LexisNexis, 2016.
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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.
For further information see Faculty of Law .