LLB464 International Legal Placement
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| Unit code: | LLB464 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,597 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLB464 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB104 and (LLB105 or LLB107) |
| Coordinator: | Samuel Roach | s2.roach@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The final year elective 'International Legal Placement' will prepare you to transition into the workforce by providing you with the opportunity to work on a real-world legal issue. QUT partners with a number of international organisations to identify contemporary legal issues impacting the international community. During the semester, you will apply your legal knowledge and skills by completing a QUT-organised project with one these organisations. Students enrolled in in-person projects will travel abroad to present their work.
Your enrolment in this unit does not guarantee that you will be selected for a project. If you are not selected for a project, you will be unable to undertake this unit.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Appraise the legal system and the role of lawyers (CLOs 1.1, 1.5, 2.3)
- Evaluate social, professional and ethical issues, analysing the professional and ethical responsibilities of a legal practitioner in a public, private or community legal context (CLOs 2.3, 5.1)
- Practise and reflect on your intercultural capabilities and discuss the value of cultural humility and awareness in legal practice (CLOs 1.5, 5.2)
- Practise and reflect on your personal and professional skills, including collaboration and communication skills and their application to legal practice (CLOs 4.2, 4.3, 5.2)
Content
The unit consists of the following components:
- legal project experience
- workshops
- reflective writing
- international travel
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a self-directed approach to project-based learning in an authentic work context. Your participation in this unit includes:
- One two-hour workshop in week 1
- Online or face-to-face academic learning support and the assessment of student learning
- The option of individual consultation between you and the unit coordinator
- Online learning and teaching resources provide feedback on your learning and are available via the Canvas site for this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You are provided with formative and summative feedback to assist your learning throughout the semester, through:
- The option of consultation with a member of the teaching team every week for the purpose of receiving formative feedback
- Individual feedback provided on assessment, together with the completed Criteria Referenced Assessment (CRA) form
- Generic feedback posted on the unit's Canvas for each item of assessment
Assessment
Overview
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal
The reflective journal requires you to critically reflect on your learning in your clinic experience. This demonstrates your understanding of the personal and professional challenges you have faced during the unit and in the placement experience.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Placement Report
Acting as a lawyer, you will write a report, critically analysing a contemporary legal issue that you have focussed on during your placement.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
International projects carry a fee. There are also costs associated with travelling internationally. These fees vary depending on the project.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
Whilst on placement you will be covered by QUT travel insurance for the duration of your overseas placement and additional personal travel days up to half of the total placement days (eg 10 placement days plus 5 personal travel days).
A risk assessment will be completed by the Faculty of Law Placements Co-ordinator for all overseas placements.
Students must complete all relevant documents and provide details of any medical conditions before they can undertake the overseas placement.