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LAWS78-107: Advanced Private Law

Description

Advanced Private Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It deepens students’ understanding of private law by critically examining advanced issues in contract, tort, and property law. Building on the foundational knowledge acquired in earlier subjects, students engage with complex legal problems involving overlapping doctrines, evolving jurisprudence, and contemporary challenges in private law practice.  

Subject details

Type: Postgraduate Subject
Code: LAWS78-107
Faculty: Faculty of Law
Credit: 10
Study areas:
  • Law

Learning outcomes

  1. Analyse and evaluate complex legal principles in contract, tort, and property law, and assess their interaction in advanced private law disputes.
  2. Apply and synthesise doctrinal legal knowledge and advanced legal reasoning to resolve multi-issue private law problems.
  3. Demonstrate entrepreneurial legal skills in the context of private law practice, with a particular focus upon innovative legal thinking.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Nil

Assumed knowledge:

Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.

Assumed Prior Learning (or equivalent):

Restrictions: This subject is not available to
  • Study Abroad Students
  • This subject is not available to students on US Financial Aid.
  • Students on a Student Visa may be restricted from enrolment due to the mode of delivery in the chosen semester. Check the subject outline for further details.

This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure.