78103 Common Law Legal Traditions
8cpRequisite(s): 78100c Postgraduate Legal Research
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Description
This subject provides the bridge between the civil law and the common law. It is a comprehensive subject aimed at lawyers from countries with civil or dual civil and common law legal systems and postgraduates without an undergraduate law degree. It opens with expert tuition and practical exercises in the research skills and methodology of the common law. The topics covered include primary and secondary sources of the common law; the development of the common law; courts and lawyers; the spread and reception of the common law; law finding in the common law; contract law in the common law; public law and the common law; and business transactions in the common law.
Footnote(s)
- Requires Faculty of Law approval.
- Eligible students must enrol in their first session of study.
Detailed subject description.
Fee information
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- Commonwealth-supported students: view subject fees at Fees Search: Commonwealth-supported
- Postgraduate domestic fee-paying students: fees are charged according to the course enrolled in; refer to Domestic Fees Search: Postgraduate and Research
- International students: fees are charged according to the course enrolled in; refer to International Fees Search
- Subject EFTSL: 0.167
Access conditions
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