Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws with Honours in Law

Due to the circumstances around COVID-19, you will begin your studies online.

However, when Government guidelines change, on-campus studies will be reintroduced.The Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws with Honours is an on-campus 5-year full-time course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics and the School of Law and is available at Hobart.

The first year only is also offered at the Launceston and Cradle Coast campus.

This course may be studied part-time.This course entry refers to the fifth/final year of the Law program which is the Honours year.

Please see Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws 63K1 for information on the first four years of this course.Students are invited to transfer to the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor or Laws with Honours (L4N), five year program, in their final year of study.

A candidate will be offered admission to the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws with Honours at the completion of their penultimate year of Law study if he or she has achieved a GPA of 5.20 or above. This GPA is calculated in accordance to the Course Rules. A candidate with a GPA of 5.80 will be offered admission to the First Class Honours stream. It is proposed that a Law Honours Transfer form be created to facilitate the transfer of students to the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws with Honours. Students will need to complete an eCAF for this new course.

Learning Outcomes for the Law Honours year are as follows:

• Understand the fundamental areas of legal knowledge.
• Understand the broader contexts in which legal issues arise.
• Identify and apply the principles and values of justice.
• Possess the intellectual and practice skills to research, evaluate and synthesise factual, legal and policy issues.
• Apply legal research and reasoning to deliver evidence based responses to legal issues.
• Think creatively.
• A capacity to apply legal reasoning and through research generate an appropriately creative, critical and reasoned response to legal issues.
• Communicate in a coherent and professionally appropriate way for the context.
• Capacity to work and learn independently – and make use of feedback and reflection to support personal development.
• Refine research questions, identify appropriate reference sources and methodologies, distil and analyse information to produce a well justified outcome/response.
• Act in accordance with ethical research precepts, and develop an understanding of approaches to ethical decision making.