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 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.
Course Objectives
- 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
Main Topics
- Researching Australian legislation
- Researching Australian case law
- Australian secondary legal research resources
- Foreign legal systems and international law
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