James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

LA2014:03

Constitutional Law 2

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 3

26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 1.

Staff: Ms C Davis (Townsville campus); Ms B McGivern (Cairns campus).

Detailed outline of the grants of power to the Commonwealth Parliament under the Constitution.

Learning Objectives:

  1. an understanding of the nature and operation of the powers granted to Parliament and of the limitations to those powers.

Assessment by tutorial attendance and participation, research assignment, end-of-semester examination.