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Waiting Lists

Most undergraduate electives are capped at 60. A waiting list will operate for all elective units that are full. If you wish to have your name placed on a waiting list, please submit a Variation of enrolment form indicating the unit in which you wish to enrol in and any you wish to withdraw from should your application be successful.

The waiting list for semester 2 units will open at 9am on Monday 21 July. Applications should be submitted in-person at the Level 12 Information Desk and will be date and time stamped. Forms can also be mailed or faxed, but please note that these will be time stamped 5pm on the day of receipt. You will be advised promptly by e-mail if your enrolment request has been successful. Please note that priority will be given to final year students.

Electives that are currently full (as at 16.6.08)
LAWS3009 Advanced Public International Law
LAWS3013 Business Tax
LAWS3016 Competition Law
LAWS3033 Intellectual Property
LAWS3108 Corporate and Securities Regulation

Electives that have limited availability*
LAWS3006 Commercial Dispute Resolution
LAWS3020 Criminology
LAWS3036 Law and Economics

* students are unable to enrol online and will have to submit an application to vary to the Law School Information Desk from July 21.

Enrolment Information Semester 1 2008

Variations of Enrolment

Online variations of enrolment opened on 15 February. Paper-based applications to vary can be submitted to the Level 12 Information Desk from 25 February.

Where online enrolment variation is not possible the message “departmental permission required” will be displayed. This indicates that a particular unit is full or requires special permission to enrol.

Changes to the Undergraduate Timetable

There have been numerous changes to the undergraduate timetable, and we strongly advise students to check the latest version of the timetable available on the Faculty website.

Cancelled classes:
LAWS3010 Advanced Real Property
LAWS3327 Legal Geographies

New classes:

LAWS3027 Advanced Constitutional Law
8 Credit Points
Dr Peter Gerangelos
Pre-requisite: LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk
Assessment: 6000-8000w research essay (80%), class participation or presentation (20%).
This course is designed for those students who wish to develop their knowledge and understanding of constitutional law in greater depth. It will build on the knowledge acquired in Federal Constitutional Law in a number of ways. While the precise content and emphasis of the course will vary from year to year, it will generally involve most of the following: First it will seek to explore certain critical topics in greater depth, most notably the nature of and constitutional limitations on the three main branches of government, with particular emphasis on the separation of judicial power, the nature of executive power and issue of controlling legislative procedures. Second, it will examine in more detail the rights, both express and implied, which are protected by the Constitution. Third, it will examine certain heads of legislative power which were not examined in the basic course. Fourth, it will explore in greater depth certain fundamental issues of constitutional interpretation and the methods and techniques of the High Court. The course will seek to provide historical context by reference to British and American constitutional history and theory. Subject to the emphasis in any particular semester, areas of development in constitutional law will be explored, together with an examination of the most recent cases and issues of current relevance.

LAWS3007 Advanced Contracts
8 Credit Points
Professor Don Robertson
Prerequisite: LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015 Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Assessment: Combination of assessments such as 1x3hr exam (50%), 3000 word essay (50%).
This unit aims to build on the level of knowledge students gained in the core contract unit. To give the course a focus, particular areas of contract are concentrated on, however, by the end of the course most of the core contract course will be revisited at a higher level of sophistication. In addition, the course will draw upon and develop the knowledge students gained in the core equity and property courses. This course is broken into general units of study, which may vary in any given year. For example, topics covered may include restitution following discharge of contract, the assignment of contractual rights, good faith in contract law, and sale of goods.

LAWS3017 Conveyancing
8 Credit Points
Ms Patricia Lane
Prerequisite: LAWS2007 Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Assessment: 1x assignment (40%), 1x take-home examination (60%)
Conveyancing is sometimes regarded as a mere matter of form filling and rote-learned procedures, able to be undertaken with minimal legal expertise. In fact, conveyancing is one of the oldest and most complex areas of law, and modern day conveyancing is an elaborate mixture of real property and contract law, seasoned with a fair amount of statutory interpretation. This unit of study is designed to provide the theoretical foundations necessary for expertise in conveyancing practice.
This unit is divided into three sections, following generally the progress of a conveyancing transaction. The first section deals with matters preliminary to entry into a contract for the sale of land, including: formation of an enforceable contract, contractual capacity, identifying the subject matter of the sale, and the concept of 'caveat emptor' in modern conveyancing law. The second section deals with the law relating to the contract for sale itself, concentrating particularly upon the standard form of contract for the sale of land in use in New South Wales. Special attention is paid in this section to the law relating to auction sales, deposits, requisitions and objections to title, defects, the consequences of misdescribing the property, and the legality of structures upon the land. The third section deals with the remedies available to vendors and purchasers, including notices to complete, specific performance, relief against forfeiture, and statutory remedies under the Contracts Review Act, the Fair Trading Act and the Trade Practices Act. Interwoven into the unit of study is a consideration of drafting principles relevant to conveyancing transactions, with particular emphasis on the principles of plain language drafting. The assessment may involve drafting exercises, so an ability to write clear English is a definite asset.

LAWS3032 Indonesian Law
8 Credit Points
Dr Simon Butt
Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Assessment: 6-8000w essay (100%) or class participation and 4000w essay.
This unit aims to introduce students to a wide variety of areas of Indonesian law By the end of the course, students should have an understanding of:
1. Indonesian commercial law, such as intellectual property;
2. Indonesia’s human rights legal framework;
3. Recent constitutional reform, including the establishment of the Constitutional Court and its decisions in the Bali Bombing and Bali 9 cases;
4. Legal pluralism, including the legacy of the Dutch civil law system, customary law and its increasing importance; and Islamic law and its ‘revival’ in regional regulations, such as in Aceh.
5. The Indonesian judicial system and recent reforms.

LAWS3087 Sports Law (seminar)
8 Credit Points
Mr Saul Fridman
Offered: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Assessment: Students will be offered a choice of assessment options including: written paper, examination, class presentation, moot court exercise
Sporting activity cuts across a number of disparate areas of law. Increasing professionalism, the enormous growth in the Olympic Movement and the commercialisation of sport have all contributed to the development of sport as a business, as well as a pastime. As a result there has been increasing intersection of the law with sporting activity. In this course we will examine the following:
1. The economics of sports leagues
2. The structure of sporting organisations
3. International and national governance of sport
4. The impact of administrative law on the working of disciplinary tribunals
5. Industrial law and the treatment of the athlete as employee
6. Labour market controls and the impact of competition law
7. Player agents
8. The law and policy relating to doping of athletes
9. The impact of intellectual property laws on sponsorship and promotion of sporting events