• Offered by ANU Law School
  • ANU College ANU College of Law
  • Course subject Laws
  • Areas of interest Law
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Judith Harrison
  • Mode of delivery Online
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Winter Session 2020
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Interested in how laws, legal work or legal practice affect people and outcomes in regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas in Australia or other parts of the world? Interested in where lawyers and others, whose work or activities affect RRR areas are located and why this may matter? 

The course asks how laws, legal work and legal practices operate and affect what may be achieved by individuals and groups, businesses and governments, communities and communities of interest - in and in relation to regional, rural and remote areas. 

Come and explore whether, how and why RRR legal problems are different and how creative thinking and creative practices can help you address RRR legal issues in new ways.

The course will help you conceptualise the roles lawyers play in relation to law and legal issues in RRR areas. Using a lens of complexity focusing on linkages, systems and inter-connections and using cutting edge tools such as problem representation, problem patterns and reflexivity, you will explore how laws and legal work in many locations, sectors and contexts relate to the RRR. Around the other way, you will use tools to explore how those in RRR areas may draw on legal and other resources within and outside the RRR. 

You will also explore how international, economic, political and other dimensions and developments can affect the RRR, how law and lawyers in the international are involved and how issues may vary between countries and locations around the world. 

This course will challenge you to further develop and apply your knowledge, skills and creativity to help unpack and work on RRR legal problems. This includes endemic, systemic and structural legal problems being problems which are entrenched, persistent and strongly associated with adverse outcomes. 

The course will enable you to experience and participate in a dynamic community of practice in relation to these issues. 

Topics in the course include: 

  • Conceptual approaches to the regional, rural and remote (RRR) and their effects
  • Exploring who works on RRR legal and related issues, where and what is involved 
  • Identifying factors which affect how laws operate in RRR areas and the effects
  • Characterisations of RRR legal problems, implications and effects 
  • Roles of lawyers, lawyering types and outcomes for RRR clients, law and justice 
  • Working on endemic, structural and systemic RRR legal problems 
  • Adaptability, resourcefulness and creativity as tools in addressing RRR law, lawyering and justice issues

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. Identify and critically analyse, in written and/or oral form, a body of knowledge including recent developments in the area of law, lawyers, justice - regional, rural and remote (RRR);
  2. Apply research principles and scholarship to research, critically and creatively analyse and reflect on information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to the area of law, lawyers, justice - RRR;
  3. Interpret, conceptualise and articulate for specialist and non-specialist audiences, client and stakeholder problems and positions relevant to current issues in the area of law, lawyers, justice - RRR;
  4. Demonstrate creativity and initiative to theorise, develop and distil effective options in the area of law, lawyers, justice - RRR applied to particular problems which encompasses legalities, practicalities, risks and alternatives;
  5. Apply knowledge and skills autonomously and ethically, displaying judgment, adaptability, responsibility and self-awareness as a learner and practitioner in relation to problems in law, lawyers, justice - RRR;
  6. Plan and complete a research project applying critical and reflective engagement with concepts in law, lawyers, justice - RRR, problem analysis, legal research, legal principles and legal writing.

Other Information

Classes may be offered in non-standard sessions and be taught on an intensive base with compulsory contact hours (a minimum of 36 hours). Please refer to the LLB timetable for dates. Please contact the ANU College of Law Student Administration Services to request a permission code to enrol in classes offered in non-standard sessions.

Indicative Assessment

  1. Forum Posts (30) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
  2. Class Presentation (online) (20) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
  3. Research essay or an advice or submission (50) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6]

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Workload

Classes offered during semester periods are expected to have 3 contact hours per week (a minimum of 36 hours). Students are generally expected to devote at least 10 hours overall per week to this course.


Classes may be offered in non-standard sessions and be taught on an intensive base with compulsory contact hours (a minimum of 36 hours). Please refer to the LLB timetable for dates. Please contact the ANU College of Law Student Administration Services to request a permission code to enrol in classes offered in non-standard sessions.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must be studying a: Bachelor of Laws, have completed or be completing five LAWS 1000 level courses; Or JD and have completed or be completing five LAWS 1000 or 6100 level courses. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8327 or LEGM8326 Law, Lawyers, Justice - Regional, Rural, Remote.

Prescribed Texts

Students must rely on the approved Class Summary which will be posted to the Programs and Courses site approximately 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the course.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
3
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $4110
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $5460
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Winter Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
6785 06 Jul 2020 24 Jul 2020 24 Jul 2020 27 Sep 2020 Online View

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