LAWS404 Administrative Law

Advanced study of controls on the exercise of public power, with particular focus on judicial review.

The emphasis of this paper, formerly known as Advanced Public Law, is on judicial review, building on the introduction you had in LAWS 204 Public Law. Almost any area of public life is potentially subject to judicial review, and contexts vary widely: from applications against Ministers to contractors for health services, schools, parole boards, welfare agencies, city councils and lower courts (especially in the area of criminal procedure). This paper will involve an intense study on which bodies are amenable to judicial review and why, as well as engaging in critical analysis of the development of administrative law both here and abroad.

Paper title	Administrative Law
Paper code	LAWS404
Subject	Law
EFTS	0.1
Points	15 points
Teaching period	Semester 2 (On campus)
Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD)	$710.30
International Tuition Fees	Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website.

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Prerequisite

96 LAWS points

Pre or Corequisite

Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed

Limited to

LLB, LLB(Hons)

Notes

Not all optional papers will be available in any given year.

Contact

law@otago.ac.nz

More information link

View more information on the Faculty of Law's website

Teaching staff

Senior Lecturer: Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere

Textbooks

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Graduate Attributes Emphasised

Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
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Learning Outcomes

You will come to understand how judicial review operates today and become familiar with the interplay between legal principle, statutory setting and the wider political and policy contexts within which value choices have to be made.

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