Undergraduate TAS-LAW108-2022
Legal Reasoning and Technological Change
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Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
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- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 11 Jul 2022
QS RANKING 2022
18
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
23
Subject details
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Analyse and make cogent arguments in writing with statute and common law
- Provide written advice in response to legal problems
- Comprehend and critically consider a range of legal reasoning techniques and the role of new technologies in legal decision making
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- Introduction
- Overarching Case Study
- Library Resources and Skills (Cases)
- Analysing Judgments
- Providing Legal Advice – Common Law (Beginners)
- What is Legal
- Reasoning? Part 1 – Judicial Reasoning
- Ratio Decidendi
- Providing Legal Advice – Common Law (Moderate)
- What is Legal Reasoning? Part 2 – Context and Actors
- Library Resources and Skills (Legislation)
- Study Skills & Revision Exercises
- Ambiguity and Constructive Choice
- Providing Legal Advice - Statutes (Beginners)
- Purpose, Context and the Acts Interpretation Act
- Extrinsic Material
- Providing Legal Advice (Statutes) - Moderate
- Fundamental Rights and International Instruments
- Sticky Issues in Statutory Interpretation
- What is Legal
- Reasoning? Part 3 - Judges, Parliamentarians and the Future
- Revision
No eligibility requirements
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Strong legal reasoning skills are critical to student learning and performance while at law school and eventually to the quality of your legal practice. More broadly, many employers beyond the legal profession consider the ability to solve problems by identifying issues, developing arguments and expressing reasoning processes and decisions in a clear and cogent manner to be a highly desirable attribute.
The subject is designed with one ultimate aim in mind: to equip students with the analytical legal reasoning skills and knowledge needed to perform well across the remainder of their legal studies. Having successfully completed this subject, you should feel confident in your ability to find, read, analyse and make strategic arguments with case law and legislation. You should also understand how technology is providing lawyers (including judges) with new ways to carry out legal analysis and make decisions pursuant to law and how these changes challenge traditional conceptions and approaches to law and legal rasoning. These changes raise new and fascinating legal and ethical challenges which are explained throughout this subject, with references to recent case studies. The Legal Reasoning subject reflects the diversity of the institutions and laws within Australia's legal system, adopting design principles and learning from Australia, England and America and the case studies used are drawn from a range of common law countries.
- Lecture Preparation (10%)
- Take Home Examination (40%)
- Case Analysis and Making Arguments (50%)
Current study term: 20 Feb 22 to 29 May 22
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Next study term: 10 Jul 22 to 16 Oct 22
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