Legal Experience 1 - LAWS1122
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic program must be 7016, Humanities Pathway Program.
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
These courses are only available to indigenous students enrolled in Humanities Pathway Program with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
LAWS1122 Legal Experience 1 (‘LE1’) is a core course for Enabling Program (Law Stream) students in their first session of study. This course is worth 6 units of credit. It complements, and is studied in the same session as, LAWS1121 Legal System and Skills (‘LSS’).
LE1 has two principal strands. The first principal strand focuses on practical legal research. The purpose of this strand is to equip students with fundamental legal research skills in a meaningful context. To this end, students will engage in the practice of legal research in a manner that connects closely to their core legal studies in LSS. In addition, throughout the session, students will work individually on a sustained legal research project of their choice, to which they will apply their legal research skills and knowledge.
The second principal strand focuses on observing law at work in our society and over time. This strand entails attending a number of visits and excursions, and engaging in other relevant legal experiences so that the connections between the theoretical learning about law and its history, and the present-day practical reality of ‘law in action’, are made apparent. These research skills and other experiences are an essential foundation for the second semester Enabling Program (Law Stream) courses as well as for eventual progression into the law degree.
LE1 has two principal strands. The first principal strand focuses on practical legal research. The purpose of this strand is to equip students with fundamental legal research skills in a meaningful context. To this end, students will engage in the practice of legal research in a manner that connects closely to their core legal studies in LSS. In addition, throughout the session, students will work individually on a sustained legal research project of their choice, to which they will apply their legal research skills and knowledge.
The second principal strand focuses on observing law at work in our society and over time. This strand entails attending a number of visits and excursions, and engaging in other relevant legal experiences so that the connections between the theoretical learning about law and its history, and the present-day practical reality of ‘law in action’, are made apparent. These research skills and other experiences are an essential foundation for the second semester Enabling Program (Law Stream) courses as well as for eventual progression into the law degree.
Main Topics
The legal research strand of LE1 aims to introduce students to the field of legal research. This willentail, broadly speaking, developing knowledge, understanding and skills as appropriate in thefollowing areas:
- Familiarity with the UNSW Library and UNSW Herbert Smith Freehills Law Library
- websites and their other resources
- Secondary materials – use of resources, research tools and techniques
- Primary materials – use of resources, research tools and techniques
- Legal citation
- Developing legal research strategies
- Locating legal resources (primary and secondary) in other common law jurisdictions
- Undertaking a sustained legal research project.
The legal experience strand of LE1 aims to introduce an experiential dimension to studying topicsin LSS and in the legal research strand. In this way, formal learning will be contextualised. Forexample, visits to various courts will form the basis of the Court Report assessment task in LSS.
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