LAW4190: Construction Law: Principles and Practice

Workload:
3 hours of lectures per week.

There are no tutorials.

Prescribed Prerequisites/Recommended Prerequisites:
Prescribed Pre-Requisites

LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104

Prescribed Co-Requisites

LAW2100 or LAW2101 and LAW2102; LAW2200 or LAW2201 and LAW2202

Assessments:
1,500 site visit report (30%) AND examination (2 and a half hours writing time plus 30 minutes reading and noting time) (70%).

Recorded Lectures:
Yes.

Past exams available:
Yes.

Textbook recommended?
There is no textbook.

Comments:
Semester 2, 2015

It is not a traditional law unit in that there isn't a textbook as such (just readings on Moodle - usually articles), and you don't need to know cases in full. Instead, you need to master the key concepts the cases teach, and integrate this into a solid framework of the concepts taught in class.

The material taught in class isn't complex, and a lot of it is about the industry, rather than hard law. However, there are a lot of guest lecturers which means the content isn’t especially well-organised - you'll need to review at the end of the semester to pull it all together and understand it.

Regardless, I would recommend this unit: it's a great way to use your knowledge from contract law and see the application of the law in a practical industry. There is also a large interplay between construction law and other areas of law, so it can give you ideas about future electives too!