LAWS348-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Research Project

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Note: Students must have a B average in LAWS courses in order to enrol in this course.

LAWS348 involves you writing a 7000 word research essay on an agreed topic supervised by a member of the academic staff.

Students considering enrolling in Laws 348 should first consult the Course Coordinator, Natalie Baird.

Note: Students must have completed or be completing Laws 200 level courses and LAWS301. Students must also have undertaken at least one Group E Laws 300 level course.

This course is more suitable for students to enrol in towards the end of their legal studies.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Head of Department permission mandatory

Restrictions

LAWS379 (prior to 2006)

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

Marozane Spamers

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Research Proposal 20 Mar 2025
Research Paper 29 May 2025 100%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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