LAWS323-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Immigration and Refugee 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

An examination of selected domestic and international issues in immigration and refugee law.

This course provides an introduction to immigration and refugee law in New Zealand, with particular focus on the Immigration Act 2009.  The course will cover the basic features of the 2009 Act, with approximately half the course spent considering immigration issues and the other half of the course on refugee law.

The refugee component of the course will review the international protections available under the Refugee Convention, and the associated protections under the Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and their domestic equivalents - "refugee status" and "protected person status" in New Zealand.

The immigration component of the course is likely to include the following topics: citizenship, visas (including temporary and residence visas), turnaround at the airport, and deportation.  The role of immigration instructions will also be examined.

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  •  Carry out independent research in the immigration and refugee law field;
  •  Understand, interpret and apply the Immigration Act 2009;
  •  Identify legal issues in immigration and refugee factual scenarios and construct responses to those issues;
  •  Understand, interpret and apply New Zealand’s international human rights obligations in the context of immigration and refugee law.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Natalie Baird

Lecturer

Tina Yee

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay 11 Apr 2016 30% Essay
Optional Book Review 04 May 2016 10% Optional Book Review
Final Examination 70% Final Exam


The assessment in the course is likely to consist of a 3,500 word essay (35%), an optional book review (10%) and a final exam (55-65%).

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

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Doug Tennent; Immigration and Refugee Law ; 2nd ed; LexisNexis, 2014.

Guy Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam; The Refugee in International Law ; 3rd ed; OUP, 2007.

James Hathaway and Michelle Foster; The Law of Refugee Status ; 2nd ed; CUP, 2014.

Course links

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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.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS323 Occurrences

  • LAWS323-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016
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