• Offered by Law School
  • ANU College ANU College of Law
  • Classification Advanced
    Specialist
  • Course subject Laws
  • Areas of interest Law
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Prof Kim Rubenstein
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in Spring Session 2014
    See Future Offerings

This course looks at the way citizenship in law sits with broader notions of citizenship; it compares the legal notion of citizenship with the normative notion.  The course also uses Australia as a case study to look at citizenship law and policy.  There will also be a strong comparative country aspect to the course.

It is expected that the following topics will be covered:

  • Introduction: the concept of citizenship
  • Citizenship and constitutions
  • Birthright citizenship
  • Citizenship by grant
  • Citizenship by descent
  • Citizenship and administrative law/merits review
  • The difference that citizenship makes
  • Loss of citizenship
  • Dual citizenship
  • Post-national citizenship
  • International law and citizenship/nationality
  • Summary/overview.

Learning Outcomes

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

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
  • comprehend the theoretical debates about citizenship  
  • understand the relationship between the theoretical debates and citizenship law
  • describe the elements of citizenship law covered during the course
  • evaluate and discuss the policy issues arising from the areas covered in the course.

Indicative Assessment

Students must rely on the approved Means of Assessment which will be posted to the Wattle course site approximately 4 weeks prior to the commencement of the course.

It is likely the assessment will consist of:

  1. Group Class presentation (10%)
  2. Research essay (90%)



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Workload

26 Contact Hours (Intensive Delivery over 4 days) plus private study and reading time

2014 course intensive dates: 13-14 & 17-18 November

Click here for the LLM Masters Program timetable

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must be studying a Master of Laws (7300) or Master of Laws (Legal Practice) (7312) or Master of Diplomacy/Master of Laws (7883) or Graduate Diploma in Law.

Preliminary Reading

Reading lists will be available in the Course Outline which will be on the Wattle course site approximately 4 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. Students continuing in their current program of study will have their tuition fees indexed annually from the year in which you commenced your program. 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 Description
1994-2003 $1626
2014 $2808
2013 $2808
2012 $2808
2011 $2778
2010 $2718
2009 $2670
2008 $2670
2007 $2670
2006 $2646
2005 $2298
2004 $1926
International fee paying students
Year Fee
1994-2003 $2916
2014 $3762
2013 $3756
2012 $3756
2011 $3756
2010 $3750
2009 $3426
2008 $3426
2007 $3426
2006 $3426
2005 $3234
2004 $2916
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Spring Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
8643 13 Nov 2014 13 Nov 2014 28 Nov 2014 30 Dec 2014 In Person N/A

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