LAWS101-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Legal System: Legal Method and Institutions

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

The LAWS101 course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal method, comprising case analysis, statutory interpretation and legal reasoning. It also introduces, and gives a descriptive outline of, the legal systems in Aotearoa | New Zealand and England, including the structure of the courts, the sources of law including the role of tikanga Maori, the classification of substantive law, dispute resolution and legal services. The course also provides an introduction to the international legal system.

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.

Biculturally competent and confident

Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Restrictions

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Sascha Mueller

Lecturers

Shea Esterling , Liam Grant , Karen Scott , Simon Dorset , Cassandra Mudgway and Ricky Lee

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 50%
5x Weekly Quizzes 5%
Evening Test 1 15%
Evening Test 2 25%
Tutorial Attendance 5%


The course assessment for LAWS101 for 2025 is not yet finalised. Details will be published at the start of the course.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,893.00

International fee $9,700.00

* 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 LAWS101 Occurrences

  • LAWS101-25W (C) Whole Year 2025