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Projects and the Environment Practicum (LAWS90241)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | July - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Projects and the Environment Practicum gives students an opportunity to explore how the law works in practice, with a focus on environmental and social issues as they appear through the stages of a major project, from finance to operation.
Students will encounter and analyse these issues across multiple areas of law, including contract law, environmental law, property law, and administrative law. Students will gain familiarity with the roles and perspectives of the diverse multidisciplinary actors with whom lawyers work when developing (or challenging) a major project, including financiers, community groups, consultants, scientists, and regulators. Topics will be taught using a real-life central case study to explore relevant issues.
Students will develop their communication skills, particularly oral communication and using plain English approaches to explain complex laws; gain expertise in reading and interpreting legislation; reading technical documents like environmental impact statements; and teamwork.
Principal topics will include:
- sustainable finance,
- impact assessment,
- environmental licensing, and
- judicial review of project approvals.
Selected portions of student work may be posted on a purpose-built website designed to assist the community at large to understand key issues and challenges related to major projects that may affect them.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this subject will have:
- Specialised knowledge of the legal frameworks that engage with social and environmental issues at various stages of developing a major project
- An understanding of the multidisciplinary context in which lawyers work when dealing with major projects and their impacts, and the perspectives of the diverse parties involved
- The ability to examine, interpret and critically analyse law-related materials involved in major projects (e.g. finance-related documents, environmental impact statements)
- The ability to synthesise and analyse information, concepts and theories relating to environmental and social issues and the critical application of this knowledge to a specific case study
Generic skills
On completion of the subject students should have developed and demonstrated their cognitive, technical and professional-legal skills in relation to:
- High-level statutory reading, interpretation and analysis
- An ability to investigate and evaluate how key concepts and legal mechanisms for environmental protection manifest in specific real-life projects
- Analysis and critical reflection on desirable regulatory reforms highlighted by specific real-life projects, in a manner displaying awareness of diverse perspectives among stakeholders and regulatory actors
- An expanded capacity for legal research involving interdisciplinary materials, including materials regularly encountered by lawyers in practice
- The technical research and oral and written communication skills to explain complex concepts to non-legal audiences
- An awareness of the value of collaborative learning and ability to collaborate as a team member
- The capacity to plan and manage time
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50024 | Principles of Public Law | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS50032 | Administrative Law | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Group presentation on a case study approved by the subject coordinator
| During the teaching period | 10% |
Individual component of report relating to group presentation
| During the teaching period | 15% |
Case analysis approved by the subject coordinator
| 3 Weeks after the end of teaching | 75% |
Additional details
The due date of the above assessment(s) will be available to students via the Assessment Schedule on the LMS Community.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinator Rebecca Nelson Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Students are expected to attend all sessions whether participating on-campus or remotely. Total time commitment 144 hours Pre teaching start date 27 June 2022 Pre teaching requirements Please refer to the Reading Guide on the LMS subject page for confirmation of which resources need to be read and what other preparation is required before the teaching period commences. Teaching period 11 July 2022 to 22 July 2022 Last self-enrol date 14 November 2021 Census date 13 July 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 July 2022 Assessment period ends 12 August 2022
Additional delivery details
This subject has an enrolment quota of 30 students.
This subject is an application-based enrichment subject. More information about the application process can be found on the JD LMS Community.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Specialist materials will be made available via the LMS.
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Type Name Course Juris Doctor
Last updated: 31 January 2024