LAWS674-25CY (C) Cross Year 2025

Legal Dissertation

60 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 12 July 2026
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 17 August 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 April 2026

Description

The aims of the course are for students to be able to engage in self-directed learning and study. Students will demonstrate that they are able to produce a 20,000-word legal dissertation on a legal topic which demonstrates that they have advanced legal research and writing skills; advanced technical and/or theoretical knowledge relevant to the subject of the dissertation illustrated by a critical understanding of key principles; analytical and critical skills such that they can analyse the legal issues arising out of a complex legal problem and generate and then evaluate possible solutions. Students will be able to orally present and defend their research to an audience of legal experts using advanced oral presentation skills.

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

Admission to LLM candidature. Head of Department Mandatory.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Faculty of Law Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $4,520.00

* 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 .

All LAWS674 Occurrences

  • LAWS674-25CY (C) Cross Year 2025
  • LAWS674-25FY (C) Full Year (February to February) 2025