1. Welcome to LAW112 Residential School
Associate Professor Alison Gerard, Director of the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University
Haley McEwen, Lecturer in Law, CSU
Associate Professor Bill Walsh, Barrister in Residence, CSU

2. Acknowledgement of Country

3. Let’s meet you!
…and the staff of the Centre for Law and Justice

4. What do you want to do with your legal studies
What do you want to do with your legal studies? The possibilities are endless…
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5. Learning Outcomes this Residential School:
Legal Research: be able to plan and apply effective strategies in legal research of case law and legislation based scenarios
Case Analysis: be able to identify and explain the facts pertaining to cases and ratio decidendi within the Australian judicial system
Statutory Interpretation: be able to interpret statutes and common law and identify legal problems in scenarios and cases
Apply legal Skills: be able to present persuasive and informed arguments based on leading precedents
Indigenous Australians and Law: understand the place of Indigenous law and customs in the Australian legal system and begin to explore the relationship between Indigenous Australians and the law
Assessment Workshops: be prepared for assessment success in the remaining two assessments!

6. Ground Rules
Knowing, Acting and Doing as Legal Professionals in training…
Law 112 Ground Rules??
To ensure everyone is heard, can challenge each other in respectful ways, work together effectively, draw on personal experience only. You can only knowingly talk about your own experience.
Listen actively.
Ask questions if confused
Take responsibility for a quality discussion
Critique ideas and not people
Challenge each other respectfully
Do not monopolize discussion
Let’s have conflict, but let it be transformative
Use of technology?
Mobile off
Arrive on time
Laptops for legitimate reasons
Only leave if ok with me
PENALTIES: gold coin, mobile phone, facebooking etc.

7. Modules 1-4 Recap

8. If signs were statutes..

9. If signs were statutes
All shows cancelled
until further notice

10. Houses of parliament

11. Summary: Political nature of Parliament and law-making Sources of law
Origins of our Australian legal system