Overview
The Legal Experimentalism course aims to equip law students to employ legal skills and knowledge in innovative, creative ways. The course will do so by combining two main elements. First, it offers students a firm grounding in the legal traditions of Legal Realism and their contemporary derivations. Second, it affords … For more content click the Read More button below.
Topics Covered/Structure
1. Precursors and Contexts: Legal and Philosophical Pragmatism; Sociological Jurisprudence
2. American Legal Realism
3. Realism Worldwide: Comparable or Related Developments in Australia and other Jurisdictions
4. Design Exercise I: Identifying the Elements and Scope
5. Ramifications of Realism: Law and Economics, Law and Society, other ‘Law and…’ movements
6. Design Exercise II: Taking Apart the Elements
7. New Realism; New Governance
8. Design Exercise III: The Why and What For, the Problem, the Challenge
9. Democratic Experimentalism
10. Design Exercise IV: Reassembling the Elements
11. Offshoots and derivations: de Sousa Santos’ ALICE Project; New Empiricism in Law etc.
12. Group Presentations
Conditions for Enrolment
Pre-requisite: 24 UOC completed in LLB courses or 24 UOC completed in Juris Doctor courses. Juris Doctor students who commenced prior to 2013 need no pre-requisites.
Course Outline
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Fees
| Type | Amount |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable) | $821 |
| Domestic Students | $5550 |
| International Students | $5550 |
Pre-2019 Handbook Editions
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