Indigenous Children & the Law - JURD7813
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8123
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course, taught by two Indigenous academics, will be concerned with the historical and contemporary experience of Indigenous children within and beyond the constructs of law and society. Using United Nations human rights frameworks, the course will take an interdisciplinary approach to selected legal issues impacting upon Indigenous children within Australia and internationally. Topics to be covered include: theory of children’s rights; Indigenous children; the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, Indigenous children’s engagement with the criminal justice system, family law, child protection and Indigenous children’s access, representation, and participation within the legal system.
Course Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the range of issues impacting on Indigenous Children's legal and political participation, including a critical understanding of the policy considerations informing the law in this area.
- Demonstrate the skills of analysis and evaluation which are required to engage in practical and scholarly legal research. This will include skills necessary to plan effective research strategies; collect, retrieve and collate relevant information; analyse, evaluate and interpret information apply and report on empirical research.
- Recognise and reflect on ethical and justice issues that are likely to arise in professional practice in this area.
- Identify and formulate legal issues in this area and engage in critical analysis of those issues.
- Be able to communicate their understanding and analysis of legal and policy issues in this area to others in both legal and non-legal formats.
Assessment
Class Participation - 20%
Essay - 80%
Essay - 80%
Study Levels
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