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Chinese Law in Context - LAWS4134
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230 or 5740; or Plans CHINAS8225 or CHINAS5225 or ASIAAS8225.
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

In this course, you will use China as a case study to develop the skills of cross-cultural reasoning - the ability to discern how legal culture, politics, economics, institutional design and other variables impact on the operation of a foreign legal system. Cross-cultural reasoning is critical for lawyers to advise effectively on transnational deals and for policy-makers to fashion strategic international and regional policy solutions. Specifically, you will develop the skill of cross-cultural reasoning by critically analysing the issue of whether China enjoys the rule of law - that is, whether or not (and if so, how) law patterns private and public behaviour in China.


LLM Specialisation

Asian Law

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

To explore the internal workings of the Chinese legal system.

Main Topics

  • The reasons for engaging with the Chinese legal system, including the economic, political and cultural rationales
  • Where to locate Japanese law, ie, as part of comparative law, the 'new' Asian law or Chinese studies
  • The structure, institutions and classification of the legal system
  • The various methodologies that may be adopted in analysing Chinese law
  • Chinese legal history and historiography
  • The major theoretical positions on Chinese law and their advocates

Assessment

You have great flexibility in determining the assessment scheme in this course. The only assessment that all students must undertake is online participation (20%). Your chosen assessment scheme must suit the learning outcomes you have articulated. There is some variation in the available assessment options and their weighting, but the following is indicative of the range of assessment options you may select:

Online participation
Reflective notes portfolio
File of client advices
Literature Review
Research essay
Conference paper
Viva voce
Annotated bibliography

Course Texts

Prescribed
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

Recommended
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

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