Objectives:
This course is designed to give students an opportunity to undertake a scholarly examination of contemporary issues in Australian administrative law. Issues will be examined both from a practical and theoretical dimension.

Content:
The contemporary topics examined in the course may change each year, to reflect administrative law developments and the interest of participants. Illustrative examples of issues that could be covered at present include:

• reform of the Commonwealth, States and Territory systems of administrative law
• recent trends in judicial review of administrative action
• the status of international conventions in administrative decision making
• the nature, advantages and limitations of executive power
• rule-making in Australian administrative law
• discrimination and human rights laws in Australian administrative law
• the implications of administrative law principles to the private sector
• the impact of technology on administrative law principles
• legal protection of whistleblowers, codes of conduct, and other forms of administrative law protection

Students must rely on the Approved Assessment which will be posted to the course homepage on the ANU Law website, prior to the commencement of the course.

2.5 hours per week

Introduction to Legal Reasoning and Research (non-lawyers); Fundamentals of Government and Commercial Law (non-lawyers)