Objectives:

This course is designed to give students an opportunity to explore 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 nature, advantages and limitations of executive power
• influence of constitutional developments on Commonwealth, State and Territory systems of administrative law
• rule-making and other forms of delegated regulation in Australian administrative law
• human rights and its impact on Australian administrative law
• the application of administrative law principles to the private sector
• the evolving integrity branch and its impact on other elements of Australia’s Administrative law system
• the impact of globilisation and comparative administrative law.

By the end of this course students will have:

• an extended appreciation of the range of current issues currently influencing developments in the Australian Administrative Law system
• the capacity to integrate that appreciation so as to anticipating future developments
• the ability to contribute to the scholarly discussion surrounding current developments in Administrative law
• extended their knowledge of administrative law principles and developed their ability to apply them in a variety of practical and theoretical contexts
• critically analysed legal scholarship and other material discussing recent developments
• appreciate the interrelationships between recent developments and their influence on fundamental administrative law and broader public law principles 

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.

The course will involve 4 days of intensive face to face discussion as well as extensive use of on-line materials and discussion.

LAWS8015 Fundamentals of Government and Commercial Law (non-lawyers)

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.

Students will be asked to participate in on-line discussion and development of assessment tasks using the ANU’s wattle learning environment prior to the commencement of the face-to-face component of the course. More details will be available in the course outline.