Learning Outcomes

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

1. Critically analyse how reflexive insights into personal and societal legacies of colonisation can relate to shifting power relations for Indigenous empowerment and Australian national building.
2. Differentiate between how concepts of cultural competency, cultural safety, cultural security and the like can operate to empower Indigenous people and improve social justice.
3. Critically discuss how non-Indigenous settler-colonial knowledge systems construct their own identities and those of Indigenous peoples.
4. Investigate and critically analyse conceptual and legal problems within substantive areas of law such as legal ethics, property, criminal and civil law relating to Indigenous peoples.
5. Evaluate a variety of impacts of the cultural interface on legal education, legal practice, law and justice in Australia.
6. Identify and evaluate a range of legal practice approaches having regard to the wishes and interests of Indigenous people and Indigenous peoples.
7. Propose concrete and achievable ways in which they can promote Indigenous peoples access to justice and equality before the law.
8. Conduct research into an aspect of decolonising legal education, legal practice, law and justice in Australia and present findings.

Indicative Assessment

1. Complete orientation (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
2. Complete 5 day onsite on country intensive (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
3. Reflective journal or report of experience (10% x 2 = 20%) 500 - 600 words each (20) [LO 1]
4. Achieve approval for Research Project topic from Course Convener within 2 weeks of completing the on country intensive (0) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
5. Research Project 3,500 - 4,200 words (70) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
6. Project presentation (10-15 min) (10) [LO 8]

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Workload

Students are required to complete group orientation (total 6 hrs), complete the intensive (total 35 hrs), gain approval for their research topic and access flexible coaching sessions with a Course Convener (total 2 hours) and participate in the research project presentation session (5 hrs). 

The total contact time expectation is about 50 hrs. Preparation for the intensive and time required for research and preparation of the reflective writing assessments and the research project is additional. 

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the ANU Law School to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Prescribed Texts

Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (e-book via ANU Library) (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture (e-book 2014 edition via ANU Library) or 2018 edition (Magabala Books, 2018)

Irene Watson, Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law. Raw law (e-book via ANU Library) (Routledge, 2015)

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