Information for Law Students - Student Learning Outcome Statements

ELECTIVE UNITS

COURSE OUTCOMES

legal knowledge

subject
area

Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental concepts and principles of contract, torts and criminal law.

Identify, state accurately, explain and demonstrate an understanding of and an ability to apply fundamental concepts and principles in Property Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Equity and Trusts.

Identify, state accurately, explain and demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts and principles of Corporations Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure and Commercial Practice.

Identify, state accurately, explain and demonstrate an understanding of fundamental concepts and principles of areas covered in elective units.

Develop and demonstrate advanced understanding and knowledge of concepts and principles in areas which either build upon a core unit (such as advanced tort law, advanced family law or constitutional problems) or which integrate knowledge across the subject areas of core units (such as in remedies, environmental law and medicine and the law).

Identify, state accurately, explain and demonstrate an understanding of fundamental concepts and principles across the range of compulsory and elective units.

Develop and demonstrate advanced understanding and knowledge of concepts and principles in certain specialist areas in the elective programme.

Demonstrate the ability to make connections, appreciate the relationship between and integrate knowledge across the various areas of private law.

LEVELS 3 & 4

ELECTIVE UNITS

COURSE OUTCOMES

BROAD FRAMEWORK OF LAW

Demonstrate an understanding at an introductory level of:

- the foundations of Australian Law;

- the court system;

- the relationship between the Constitution and other statutes;

- the interaction between the various components of the criminal justice system;

- the relationship between common law and statute;

- the distinctive nature of a legislative code;

- the legislative process and the information contained in statutes;

- the precedent value of judicial decisions;

- the role of negotiation in the resolution of legal disputes; and

- the role of law and lawyers in the negotiation process.

Develop statutory interpretation skills.

Develop negotiation skills.

Demonstrate an understanding of:

- the relationship between Equity and the common law;

- the difference between personal and proprietary claims and remedies;

- the distinctive features of public law doctrines and remedies as compared to those in private law; and

- of the relationship between international law and Australian domestic law.

Demonstrate statutory interpretation skills by reading, interpreting and applying an entire statute without prior tuition on its content.

Demonstrate the ability to draw on and apply knowledge from a range of previously studied units in solving hypothetical legal problems raising substantive and procedural law issues.

Demonstrate an understanding of:

- the interaction of the statutory and general law sources of law; and

the company as an actor or participant in contractual, tortious or equitable relationships and in crime.

Further develop and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the broader issues embedded in law, e.g. the foundations of Australian law; the relationship between Equity and the common law; the relationship between international law and Australian domestic law; the use and suitability of non-litigious mechanisms and processes in solving legal disputes.

Demonstrate advanced statutory interpretation skills

Develop and demonstrate negotiation skills and advanced statutory interpretation skills.

Demonstrate an understanding of:

- the foundations of Australian Law;

- the court system;

- the relationship between the Constitution and other statutes;

- the relationship between common law and statute;

- the distinctive nature of a legislative code;

- the legislative process;

- the precedent value of judicial decisions;

- the role of negotiation in the resolution of legal disputes and the role of law and lawyers in the negotiation process;

- the relationship between Equity and the common law;

- the difference between personal and proprietary claims and remedies;

- the distinctive features of public law versus private law doctrines and remedies;

- the relationship between international law and Australian domestic law;

- the company as an actor or participant in contractual, tortious or equitable relationshjps and in crime; and

- the use and suitability of non-litigious mechanisms and processes in solving legal disputes.

LEVEL 1

ELECTIVE UNITS

COURSE OUTCOMES

understanding contextual issues

Develop and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation, at an introductory level, of:

- the ethical, political, socio-economic and philosophical foundations of aspects of criminal law, contract and torts;

- the position of disadvantaged person within the justice system; and

- the broad range of power issues, rights and interests that impact on the resolution of legal disputes.

Demonstrate an ability to make and assess arguments for law reform.

Recognise, analyse and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the historic, social, economic or political dimensions of aspects of property law, constitutional law, administrative law, equity and trusts.

Recognise and demonstrate an appreciation of:

- the philosophical, political, social and economic policy considerations underlying Australian company law;

- the ethical issues raised by the separate legal entity status of the company; and

- the interaction of economic objectives and social considerations on corporate legislation.

Further develop and demonstrate an understanding of:

- historical and contemporary contextual issues in law, e.g. the role of history, psychology, anthropology and politics in the development of the law and legal issues; cross-cultural issues that impact on indigenous legal issues etc.; and

- the significance of contextual issues in certain areas of the law, e.g. Law and Religion; Law and Contemporary Social Problems and Medicine and the Law.

Recognise and demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of:

- the historical, ethical, political, socio-economic and philosophical dimensions of law;

- the position of disadvantaged person within the justice system; and

- the broad range of power issues, rights and interests that impact on the resolution of legal disputes.

Demonstrate the ability to make and assess arguments for law reform.

ELECTIVE UNITS

COURSE OUTCOMES

comparative/ international perspectives

Demonstrate an appreciation of and compare and contrast, at an introductory level:

- the impact of international obligations on domestic criminal laws;

- the significant difference between the spheres of operation between State and Commonwealth criminal laws; and

- common law (particularly English case law) with Australian torts law.

Develop advanced comparative law perspectives, by demonstrating an understanding of the different doctrinal approaches to common issues in interstate and foreign jurisdictions and the implications of those differences.

Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of the significance of different principles and rules relevant to common issues in interstate and foreign jurisdictions and the potential impact of international developments on domestic law.

Further develop and demonstrate an understanding of:

- comparative international perspectives, e.g. in Comparative Law, Advanced Family Law, International Commercial Law, Public International Law and International and Humanitarian and Refugee Law; and

- comparative interstate and State versus Federal perspectives, e.g. Family Law, Consumer Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law and areas focussing on anti-discrimination laws.

Demonstrate advanced comparative law perspectives including an appreciation and understanding of the significance of different principles and rules relevant to common issues in interstate, state, federal and foreign jurisdictions and the potential impact of international developments on domestic law.

ELECTIVE UNITS

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ANALYSIS / CRITICAL THINKING

Demonstrate an ability to critically read a case, determine the basis of the decision reached and the legal principle/s emerging from that case, and assess the applicability of that decision in a different fact situation.

Analyse the broad range of interests arising in a legal dispute.

Critically reflect on the negotiation process.

Critically reflect on theory and policy considerations of criminal law, contracts and tort.

Critically read, analyse and comment on (orally and in writing) cases, identifying the basis for decision, differences between individual judgments, the degree of conformity with other authority, and their practical or theoretical implications.

Critically read, analyse and apply statutes in solving a hypothetical legal problem.

Critically analyse legal principles, including controversial, conflicting or uncertain principles.

Demonstrate the ability to critically analyse legal issues, rules and principles in making recommendations for reform.

Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and analysis skills, in relation to substantive legal principles and contextual debates about the law, e.g. Medicine and the Law, Indigenous Peoples and the Law, Advanced Torts Law, Family Law, Remedies and Supervised Research.

Critically read, analyse and comment on (orally and in writing) cases, legislation and secondary resources and their practical or theoretical implications.

Critically analyse legal issues, rules, principles and make recommendations for reform.

Critically analyse contextual debates about the law.

ELECTIVE UNITS

COURSE OUTCOMES

legal research

Develop and demonstrate legal research skills, at an introductory level, including:

- using citations to locate primary and secondary sources, both text and electronic;

- identifying and correctly citing relevant primary and secondary sources on a specified subject matter; and

- identifying subsequent treatment of cases.

Demonstrate legal research skills at an intermediate level by:

- effectively locating and using relevant primary and secondary local, interstate and international resources including loose leaf publications, online indexes, and reform publications;

- determining the content of historical versions of legislation; and

- locating delegated legislation.

Demonstrate the ability to conduct research to:

- identify the elements of a cause of action; and

- locate primary and secondary resources relevant to Procedure.

Demonstrate comprehensive and independent legal research skills at an advanced level in completing a research paper or assignment in Supervised Research, Banking Law, Criminology II, Legal History, Medicine and the Law, Law and Religion, Advanced Torts Law, Employment Law and Remedies.

Develop and demonstrate legal research skills including the ability to:

- effectively locate and use relevant primary and secondary local, interstate and international resources including delegated legislation, loose leaf publications, online indexes, and reform publications;

- determine the content of historical versions of legislation; and

- engage in comprehensive and independent legal research skills at an advanced level in the elective program.