Course

Criminal Justice: Global Perspectives - LAWS8209

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: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 5740 or 9285 or 5285 or 9210 or9211 or 5211 or 9235 or 5235.

Excluded: JURD7309

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course will examine wrongful convictions in a comparative perspective that will situate Australia's response to wrongful convictions with different responses in the United Kingdom including the creation of a Criminal Cases Review Commission and the United States including a focus on post-conviction DNA testing. Other jurisdictions examined will include Canada, China and New Zealand.

LLM Specialisations
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Dispute Resolution
Human Rights and Social Justice

More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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