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Conceptual Framework of the Common Law - JURD7442

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Criminal Laws (JURD7122) and Land Law (JURD7283). Plus, completion of 36 UOC of JURD courses for student enrolled prior to 2013. For student enrolled after 2013, completion of 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS3142

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course examines the taxonomy of the common law’s system of civil rights. We will examine the categories and concepts used to explain and distinguish the different parts of the law with a view to understanding the practical implications of the major distinctions within the Australian legal system. We will look at the conceptual distinctions between criminal and civil law, between statute and general law, between common law and equity, between property and obligations, between rights and remedies, between and within contract, tort and restitution. The course will focus on the boundaries between the various fields in the law, their history, rationales and practical implications. Primary materials (cases and statutes) will be analysed in light of the various attempts by textbook writers and theorists to categorise them and the determined opposition in some quarters to rational taxonomy.

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