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Legal History - JURD7451

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS3251

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course introduces students to the historical development of law in England and Australia over the one thousand years to 1842. In doing so, it mainly proceeds chronologically, charting the role played by law and legal institutions in the division of political power and in social development, paying particular attention to the emergence of the concept of the rule of law. Having focused on the law’s role in political, social and penal developments in England over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it then looks closely at its role in the rapid development of New South Wales from the rudimentary penal colony of 1788 into a free society in just 55 years. Case studies will also be undertaken, looking at the development over time of a tort, the law of contract, and the legal profession. Learning will be by reading from prescribed textbooks and a rich variety of other sources, mostly included in the extensive Course Materials available through the UNSW Bookshop.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

An interest in history and desire to gain a deeper understanding not only of what the law now is, but of how and why it has become so. There are no prerequisite for this course.

Lecturer

John Randall QC (Eng.), Visiting Fellow

Contact: jr@st-philips.com

Course Objectives

To gain an understanding of the historical development of the main ideas and institutions of the Anglo-Australian legal tradition.
Gain an appreciation to the nature of basic values and norms connected with the idea of the rule of law.

Assessment

Class participation: 20%
Class Presentations 30 %
Research essay 50%

Resources

Refer to the course outline which will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the relevant semester.