Unit of Study LAWS4007 Law Honours Thesis II (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

Hons Unit
Credit points

24
Faculty & College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

LAWS4005 - Law Honours Research and Methodology

Unit description

Students will produce an original scholarly written work which demonstrates application of advanced independent research skills. The work will create an original contribution to the field of legal knowledge and be presented in an appropriate form. This will be achieved through identification of a legal problem with a social or philosophical issue worthy of investigation, establishing an hypothesis for exploration and presenting consequential outcomes in an advanced academic format.

Unit content

Module 1: Honours dissertation: Planning and conducting the research project

Module 2: Aligning Research Question, thesis structure and final Abstract

Module 3: Stand and deliver: 30-minute WIP presentations on advanced legal research skills and independent research issues for supervisor feedback

Module 4: Stand and deliver: 30-minute WIP presentations on advanced legal research skills and independent research issues for supervisor feedback

Module 5: Stand and deliver: 30-minute WIP presentations on advanced legal research skills and independent research issues for supervisor feedback

Module 6: Dissertation checklist and final troubleshooting

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Online	Dual Term3	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate advanced skills and independent research to complex legal issues to arrive at a new understanding in relation to specific legal issues

undertake a research project that demonstrates a coherent understanding and appropriate application of advanced research principles and methods

create an original contribution to the field of legal knowledge and present the results of advanced legal research and in an appropriate scholarly written form.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Thesis	100%
Presentation	SR

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