LAW5639 Comparative indigenous rights
Faculty of Law
LAW5639 Comparative indigenous rights is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Law. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2022 entry.
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Requisites
Before LAW5639
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After LAW5639
No unit lists LAW5639 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite:
- LAW5000 Australian legal reasoning and methods
- LAW5001 Principles of criminal law and procedure
- LAW5002 Principles of contract law A
- LAW5003 Principles of torts
- LAW5004 Principles of public law and statutory interpretation
- LAW5005 Principles of contract law B
- LAW5006 Principles of property law
- LAW5007 Principles of constitutional law
- LAW5008 Principles of equity
- LAW5009 or LAW5018 Advanced property law
- LAW5010 Principles of trusts
- LAW5011 or LAW5016 AND LAW5017 Principles of company law
- LAW5012 Principles of evidence
Overview
The unit is a comparative law unit, analysing and discussing the rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The main topics to be covered are Indigenous sovereignty, European acquisition of sovereignty, land and resource rights, self-government, and constitutional issues. The course will be taught from a critical perspective, comparing and assessing the treatment of Indigenous rights in the four jurisdictions.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for LAW5639.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Apply knowledge and understanding of the rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning
- 2
Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to the protection of Indigenous rights in four jurisdictions.
- 3
Conduct research in, and compare and assess, the treatment of indigenous rights in four jurisdictions based on knowledge of appropriate self-government and constitutional issues, property law, and research principles and methods.
- 4
Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Workload and teaching
Students enrolled in this unit will be provided with 36 contact hours of seminars per semester whether intensive, semi-intensive, or semester-long offering. Students will be expected to do reading set for class, and to undertake additional research and reading applicable to a 6 credit point unit.
Where it fits
LAW5639 is part of 3 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Marilyn Pittard
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for LAW5639?
LAW5639 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is LAW5639 offered?
LAW5639 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
Which majors and minors include LAW5639?
LAW5639 is part of Global society and human rights; Health law and community; and Public sector governance and regulation.