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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING
Enrolment rules
Students who have successfully completed LAW366 Jurisprudence or LAW301 Legal Theory cannot enrol in this unit for credit.
BJU200 Researching Legal Remedies or BJU200 Research Methods for Law
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Learning outcomes
1.
Recognise and describe key theories about the law;
2.
Explain the links between a theory of law and how the legal system has operated or is operating;
3.
Effectively structure a legal argument; and
4.
Demonstrate the capacity to reflect on your own “relationship” with the law.
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Unit content:
The unit covers the following topics: the Christian God as a basis for law in seventeenth-century England; the rise of Parliamentary sovereignty as a justification of the law; the role of positivism, and its underlying rationality, in shaping the law; twentieth-century versions of natural law; twentieth-century debates over “law as rules”; the increasing use of economics to justify law; feminist legal theories; and post-modern and post-structural legal theories.