Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
By the conclusion of this course, it is intended that students who have successfully completed all of the course requirements will be able to:
- Demonstrate a practical understanding of how international legal advice is provided to the Australian Government;
- Debate how best to structure the provision of international legal advice to the Australian Government;
- Apply their understanding of how to negotiate and draft an international treaty through a simulated negotiation exercise;
- Debate what sort of process for scrutinising and approving treaties would best serve the Australian people;
- Debate whether the current attribution of immunities to diplomats is warranted;
- Outline what important steps are involved in international litigation;
- Debate the ethical issues arising in the provision of international legal advice;
- Hypothesise about how international law will likely be applied to international legal problems in the future; and
- Plan and execute legal research with independence in order to produce original scholarship.
Other Information
This is an intensive course with a 4 day compulsory intensive (see LLM timetable for dates).
Approximately 6 weeks from the completion of the intensive your final
assessment will be due. Contact with fellow students and the convenor, both
prior to the intensive and after, is conducted via the Wattle course site.
Indicative Assessment
Assessment is likely to consist of:
- Class contributions (10%)
- Negotiation exercise (45%)
- Research Paper (45%, 3,000 words) .
Students must rely on the Course Study Guide which will be available on the Wattle course site approximately four weeks prior to the commencement of the course.
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Workload
26 hours of face to face teaching (4 day intensive). The course will also require advanced preparation through assigned readings. In total, it is anticipated that the hours required for completion this course (class preparation, teaching and completion of assessment) will not exceed 120 hours.Click here for the LLM Masters Program timetable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
There is no prescribed text.Preliminary Reading
Students must rely on the approved Course Study
Guide which will be posted to the Wattle course site approximately 4 weeks
prior to the commencement of the course.
An e-brick will be available on the Wattle course site.
Assumed Knowledge
Participants must have completed Principles of International Law (LAWS8182) or equivalent.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 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $3660 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2018 | $5160 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
Summer Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1673 | 02 Mar 2018 | 02 Mar 2018 | 16 Mar 2018 | 05 May 2018 | In Person | N/A |