Course

Legal Experimentalism - LAWS2384

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

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.

Equivalent: JURD7284, JURD7784, LAWS3384

Excluded: LAWS2320, LAWS2326, LAWS2820

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Students wishing to enrol in Legal Experimentalism as an elective should enrol in LAWS3384.

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 students opportunities to engage collaboratively in the creative rewriting and redeployment of legal instruments, texts and institutions and/or to start to think through the potential development of new legal technologies and institutions.

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
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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