01. Comprehend and use the language of real property law to investigate and analyse complex problems regarding the possession and use of land.

Activities:

Lecture and tutorial introductions to meaning and use of language; students required to use new language in all discussion and written settings

02. Understand the concept of property rights in land as it operates in Australian law and effectively communicate this to specialist and non-specialist audiences

Activities:

Frameworks for concepts explained and illustrated in lectures, individual student reading and analysis of cases and concepts and in-class discussions to clarify

03. Understand the key legal doctrines that underpin contemporary Australian land law and reflect critically on the purposes and effects of such doctrines.

Activities:

Frameworks for doctrines explained and illustrated in lectures, individual student reading of cases and textbooks and in-class discussions to clarify and evaluate applications, purposes and effects of such doctrines

04. Evaluate claims made for competing property interests in land in a given fact situation, using appropriate legal doctrine and reasoning.

Activities:

Argument development and evaluation modelled through case-study examples in lectures. Individual student reading of cases and textbooks and in-class discussions to clarify and evaluate applications

05. Exercise analytic skill and professional judgment in composing written legal opinions that represent an appropriate response to novel factual scenarios.

Activities:

Modelled through analysis of written cases, individual written student seminar preparation and in-class discussion of student responses