LAW5470 · Royal commissions and public inquiries

Overview

Royal Commissions and public inquiries play a significant role in exposing corruption, governance failures and wrongdoing. This unit is designed to equip students to understand the functioning of royal commissions and public inquiries and to deal with them from different perspectives. It will examine key features of the functioning of commissions and public inquiries, including the rules regulating their powers and processes and contemporary policy issues generated by their reports. The unit has a contemporary nature and will focus on current issues and case studies.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Interpret and transmit knowledge of selected contemporary issues relating to commissions and public inquiries and to resolve such issues with creativity and initiative to new situations in the professional practice and/or for further learning.
2. Analyse critically, reflect on, and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts, and theories in relation to the functioning of commissions and public inquiries.
3. Research and apply knowledge of legal and policy-based issues relevant to commissions and public inquiries.
4. Use cognitive, technical, and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to the study of commissions and public inquiries.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning, and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.