LAW 3506A - Adelaide Law Review part A

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2018

The Adelaide Law Review has been since 1962 the flagship publication of the Law School. The journal is peer reviewed and is committed to the publication of legal scholarship of the highest quality. The Course will introduce students to legal publishing and editing. Further students will consider the legal journal as a means of legal education. This course will involve students in the production of the annual editions of the journal. Students will consider the role of legal publications, critically analyse submitted material and comment upon a diverse range of legal scholarship. In addition students will develop skills in advanced legal writing, copy-editing and journal production.

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Course Details

Course Code	LAW 3506A
Course	Adelaide Law Review part A
Coordinating Unit	Adelaide Law School
Term	Semester 1
Level	Undergraduate Law (LLB)
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Contact	Up to 2 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	N
Prerequisites	LAW 1501
Incompatible	LAW 2027 & LAW 2028
Restrictions	Available to LLB students only
Assessment	Typically to include editorial activities, case notes, participation

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Professor Matthew Stubbs

Editors in Chief:
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

Course Coordinator (S1): Matthew Stubbs
Course Coordinator (S2): Judith Bannister

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

Course Learning Outcomes

This course focuses on the following themes throughout the year:

Legal Publishing, its Role in Legal Scholarship and the Adelaide Law Review The first classes of this elective will involve an engagement in the literature as to the role of the law review. Since the 1930s articles have been written announcing the death of the law review or, more recently, the need to kill them off.

We will then acquaint students with the Adelaide Law Review, its history and its place in Australian legal scholarship. We will discuss the importance of peer review, the process of managing a law review article from submission to publication and the role of student assistants and their ethical obligations.

The Skilled Editor The remainder of the course will involve developing practical skills associated with the editing of a journal. Students will work with the editors to review and evaluate work. Students will make suggestions as to style, conformity with the citation guide and accuracy of quotation. They will, under the supervision of the editors, liaise with authors and the publisher.

The Budding Author Throughout the course, students will prepare two pieces of written work: a case note on a selected superior court decision in each semester. Students will have an opportunity to demonstrate writing skills associated with legal publishing. The best case note will be considered for publication in the Adelaide Law Review.

Legal scholarship is at the core of the study of law. The learning objectives of this course are numerous but in general students will be engaged in the review and preparation for publication of original legal scholarship. They will be required to critique and evaluate the writing of leading scholars as well as review and reflect upon their own scholarship.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Develop and demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of the basic principles behind legal academic publishing. This will include the ethical issues relating to peer review and objective assessment of submitted articles to the journal.
2. Demonstrate the skills of assessment and evaluation across the discipline of law. Students will read and critique submitted articles, case notes and reviews.
3. Demonstrate good inter-personal and communication skills. This course specifically seeks to develop students’ abilities to work together in an editorial team, communicate with authors through written correspondence, and report to the course coordinator on their editorial work. In addition, students will submit a series of written work for evaluation.
4. Apply a number of skills associated with the production of an edition of the Adelaide Law Review.
5. Critique their own work in terms of both style and substance.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Deep discipline knowledge informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1 accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)	1, 2
Critical thinking and problem solving steeped in research methods and rigor based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment	2
Teamwork and communication skills developed from, with, and via the SGDE honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning	3
Career and leadership readiness technology savvy professional and, where relevant, fully accredited forward thinking and well informed tested and validated by work based experiences	4, 5
Intercultural and ethical competency adept at operating in other cultures comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges	3
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate	3

Learning Resources

Required Resources

TEXT BOOK

There is no textbook for this subject. A number of significant articles have been extracted and will be available on MyUni.

Students MUST have a copy of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (third edition). Carry it with you at all times; sleep with it under your pillow at night.

Recommended Resources

Any further reading to be announced at the appropriate time.

Online Learning

Materials for discussion and editing will be posted on MyUni as the course progresses.

Learning & Teaching Modes

The seminars are central to the learning-teaching process and provide a forum for academic staff and students to engage together with the material.

Seminar Reading

Before attending their weekly seminar, students are required to consider the assigned material and form a view on the arguments and information presented. In the first weeks this material will be provided to you. Thereafter both the editors and the students will be working through submitted articles.

Often students will be required to undertake library searches for references.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The University expects full-time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies. Students in this course are expected to attend all Seminars throughout the semester each week. In addition to seminars, students should allocate time to private study in the course across the 12 week semester – this includes reading the material, preparing for seminars and undertaking the assessment tasks.

Learning Activities Summary

**Semester 1**
	Topic
Week 1	Introduction to course, the place of Law Reviews and the Adelaide Law Review, the role of the Editor
Week 2	Article review and editing
Week 3	Article review and editing
Week 4	Article review and editing
Week 5	Article review and editing (& Case Note Selection)
	MID SEMESTER BREAK
Week 6	Writing Case Notes
Week 7	Article review and editing
Week 8	Article review and editing
Week 9	Article review and editing
Week 10	Article review and editing
Week 11	Article review and editing
Week 12	Article review and editing – Case note and Files Due

**Semester 2**
	Topic
Week 1	Article review and editing
Week 2	Article review and editing
Week 3	Article review and editing
Week 4	Article review and editing (case note selection)
Week 5	Article review and editing
Week 6	Article review and editing
Week 7	Article review and editing
Week 8	Article review and editing
Mid-semester Break
Week 9	Article review and editing
Week 10	Article review and editing
Week 11	Article review and editing
Week 12	Article review and editing – Case note and Files Due

The University's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

This is the assessment for Adelaide Law Review (parts A and B combined):


Assessment Task	% of final mark	Due date	Task Type	Length	Redeemable	Learning Outcomes
Editorial Activities (Semester 1)	25%	N/A	Individual	N/A	No	1-4
Editorial Activities (Semester 2)	25%	N/A	Individual	N/A	No	1-4
Case Note (Semester 1)	25%	Case selected week 5 (semester 1) Due Friday Week 12	Individual	2,750 words	No	1-5
Case Note (Semester 2)	25%	Case selected week 4 (semester 2). Due Tueday Week 13 (swot vac)	Individual	2,750 words	No	1-5

Students in Adelaide Law Review (Hons) (parts A and B combined) will complete the assessment as above, but their editorial activities in each semester will include (in addition) the preparation of a two page review of each article in accordance with the guidelines given to external reviewers.

Assessment Detail

Editorial Activities (2 x 25%)

Fifty per cent of the students’ grade in this course will be taken from their role in individually editing one or more articles, their contribution to class discussion and the editing of other articles in the journal.

Individual editing: Students will, under the supervision of the Editors, be responsible for one or more articles submitted to the journal. They will copy edit the article and place it into style. They will draft letters to authors and assist in the production of the article. The ‘file’ associated with the article(s) will be submitted by Week 12 of semesters 1 and 2 for assessment.

Contribution to class: Each week, students will be expected to assist the students editing the articles set for that week, and engage in discussion and critique of the article. In addition, the class will conduct the refereeing process for one article through each semester, and students will be expected to contribute to the management and discussion of this.

Case Notes (2 x 25%)

Students will submit a case note in each semester.

Semester 1: The case will be selected and announced in Week 5 of Semester 1.

Semester 2: The case will be selected and announced in Week 4 of Semester 2.

The assignments will be a maximum of 2,750 words each. This word limit excludes footnotes, however footnotes must contain references only and not any substantive material. A penalty of 5% will be applied for every 100 words, or part thereof, in excess of the word limit.

The case notes will be due Friday, Week 12 (each semester).

Footnotes: Students must comply with the approved Law School style guide, The Australian Guide to Legal Citation, which can be accessed at http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/library/research/

All sources must be acknowledged.

Submission

The recommended standard Law School penalties shall apply for late submission of written assignments and exceeding word limits (see Section 8 Law School Policies and Procedures).

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

NOG (No Grade Associated)
Grade	Description
CN	Continuing

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through .

Finality of Assessment Grades

Students are advised that Course Coordinators will not enter into negotiations of any kind with any student regarding changes to their grades. It is irrelevant, in any given circumstance, that only a minimal number of additional marks are required to inflate a student’s grade for any individual assessment item or course as a whole. Pursuant to the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policyand the Adelaide Law School Assessment Policies and Procedures, grades may only be varied through the appropriate channels for academic review (such as an official re-mark).

Moderation

In accordance with the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, course coordinators ‘ensure that appropriate marking guidelines and cross-marking moderation processes across markers are in place’ in each course. Procedures adopted by Adelaide Law School to ensure consistency of marking in courses with multiple markers include:

assurance of the qualifications of markers, and their knowledge of the content covered in each course;
detailed marking guidelines and assessment rubrics to assist in the marking of items of assessment;
sharing of example marked assessments at various grade bands across markers;
reviewing of selected marked assessments from each marker by the course coordinator;
comparison of the marks and their distribution across markers;
automatic double-marking of all interim assessment receiving a fail grade, and of final assessments where a student’s overall result is a fail grade;
the availability of re-marking of assessments in accordance with Adelaide Law School’s Assessment Policies and Procedures.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners

Students are reminded that all assessment results are subject to approval (and possible moderation/change) by the Law School’s Board of Examiners. Assessment results at the University are not scaled. Under the Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, students are assessed ‘by reference to their performance against pre-determined criteria and standards … and not by ranking against the performance of the student cohort in the course’. However, under that same policy, the Board of Examiners (as the relevant Assessment Review Committee for courses at Adelaide Law School) is required to ‘ensure comparability of standards and consistency’ in assessment. On occasions, the Board of Examiners will form the view that some moderation is required to ensure the comparability of standards and consistency across courses and years, and accordingly provide fairness to all law students. All assessment results are therefore subject to approval (and possible change) until confirmed by the Board of Examiners and posted on Access Adelaide at the end of each semester.

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