LAW5642 The global lawyer
Faculty of Law
LAW5642 The global lawyer is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Law. It isn't offered in 2023. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2023
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2023 handbook entry. See the 2024 entry.
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Requisites
Before LAW5642
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After LAW5642
No unit lists LAW5642 as a prerequisite in the 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
For Legal Studies students (L4004, L5004, L6013) you must have completed LAW5000 or LAW5081
and
For Juris Doctor students (L6005), you must have completed 72 points of study.
Overview
This unit focuses on building professional capacity to engage in international, supranational, and transnational legal practice. It seeks to make students aware of the opportunities as the role of traditional lawyering is broadened, as well as the ethical concerns and responsibilities of being a global, digital lawyer. It introduces the fundamentals of global legal systems and develops the skills to embark upon legal practice across different cultures and systems, including interacting ethically with clients and lawyers from diverse jurisdictions. International management and firm operation will be dealt with as students are challenged with the problem of how to maintain local identity while providing international service.
The unit also equips students to harness digital technologies in the globalisation of legal practice, and to deal with the challenges they pose to the traditional understanding of key legal concepts and to the lawyer's professional identity. Issues such as the changing use of digital technology, modern understandings of privacy and control over information, copyright and ownership of data, and issues of data retention, data security, legal informatics and legal professional ethics will be considered.
Offerings in 2023
The 2023 handbook lists no offerings for LAW5642.
Assessment
- Class ParticipationParticipation10%
- Career orientation taskAssignment30%
- Critical analysis taskAssignment60%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Draw on professional experience and theoretical frameworks to analyse the role of the lawyer within diverse legal systems in the face of globalisation and transnational practice.
- 2
Synthesise diverse constructs of inter/trans/supra-national legal practice to critically analyse the impacts of 'borderless legal practice' upon professional ethics and accountability
- 3
Critically analyse the challenges likely to arise in legal practice from the increasing use of digital technologies
Workload and teaching
- Workshops36 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
You are required to attend 36 hours of workshops per teaching period (either intensive, semi-intensive or semester long, depending on the Faculty resources, timetabling and requirements). Students will be expected to do reading set for class, and to undertake additional research and reading applicable to a 6 credit point unit.
Learning resources
Required resources
See the Moodle unit page for prescribed and recommended resources. Prescribed texts are usually available for purchase through the University Bookstore and are sometimes available for short-term loan or as eBooks through the library.
Where it fits
LAW5642 is part of 3 areas of study in the 2023 handbook.
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for LAW5642?
LAW5642 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is LAW5642 offered?
LAW5642 has no offerings listed in the 2023 handbook.
Does LAW5642 have an exam?
No. LAW5642 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.
Which majors and minors include LAW5642?
LAW5642 is part of Commercial and corporate law; Global society and human rights; and Transnational economic regulation.