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Advanced Legal Research - LAWS2520

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 2

EFTSL: 0.04167 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 18 UOC completed in LAWS courses or JURD courses.

Excluded: JURD7220

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 no longer be offered after Semester 2, 2013.

This subject revises and expands upon students' online legal research skills. It involves a systematic review of all of the main tools which can be used to find Australian legislation, case law and commentary online, and a systematic approach to finding foreign legal materials. There is a dual focus on the content that is available, and on the tools used to find it.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

The Advanced Legal Research course aims to assist students to:

Refresh and refine the online research skills acquired in the first year course
Become highly competent in Australian legal research over all categories of materials (legislation, case-law, and secondary materials)
Be able to take a systematic approach to international and comparative legal research sufficient to find major sources
Practice accessing information from a wide variety of online sources
Obtain research skills sufficient for you to be able to undertake your own legal research at any level of University studies
Obtain research skills sufficient for professional practice or other work in law

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