LAW 2559 - Law and Religion

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2023

The course invites students to undertake an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the relationship between law and religion and its implications for 最新糖心Vlogn law, religious tolerance and freedom. Issues are considered from the viewpoints of a range of legal systems/jurisdictions, religions, belief systems and academic disciplines. The subject will cover: (a) the liberal-secular separation of church and state; (b) the socio-historical nexus between law and religion; (c) the relationship between (a) and (b); and (d) a broad spectrum of topical issues. Students in this course will: (a) acquire an appreciation of religious diversity in 最新糖心Vlog and consider the implications of such religious diversity for 最新糖心Vlogn law; and (b) undertake research of a specific issue examining the relationships between law and religion.

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Course Details

Course Code	LAW 2559
Course	Law and Religion
Coordinating Unit	Adelaide Law School
Term	Semester 1
Level	Undergraduate Law (LLB)
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Prerequisites	LAW 1501, LAW 1504
Restrictions	Available to LLB and B.Criminology with B.Laws and BArts Advanced with B.Laws students only
Assessment	Assessment in a course of this kind would typically include one or more of the following: an exam (either invigilated or take-home), a research essay, a class presentation, and/or assessment of contributions to class discussion.

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Professor Paul Babie

Paul Babie (course coordinator)
3.05 Ligertwood Building
paul.babie@adelaide.edu.au
+61 (08) 8313 5521

Course Timetable

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

Course Learning Outcomes

Students in this course will:
1. Acquire an appreciation of religious diversity in 最新糖心Vlog and consider the implications of such religious diversity for 最新糖心Vlogn law.
2. Determine, explain and apply the law relating to religion to complex problems and theoretical questions and critically examine its operation from a range of cultural, theoretical and social perspectives.
3. Analyse, evaluate and synthesise information from a wide variety of sources and experiences to answer complex legal questions in a principled manner.
4. Undertake research of a specific issue examining the relationships between law and religion.
5. Embody professionalism and ethical behaviour in providing legal advice in an academic environment.
6. Identify and analyse cultural, theoretical and social factors impacting on law and religion.

最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attributes

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

最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Attribute 1: Deep discipline knowledge and intellectual breadth Graduates have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of their subject area, the ability to engage with different traditions of thought, and the ability to apply their knowledge in practice including in multi-disciplinary or multi-professional contexts.	1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Attribute 2: Creative and critical thinking, and problem solving Graduates are effective problems-solvers, able to apply critical, creative and evidence-based thinking to conceive innovative responses to future challenges.	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Attribute 3: Teamwork and communication skills Graduates convey ideas and information effectively to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes and contribute in a positive and collaborative manner to achieving common goals.	4, 5
Attribute 4: Professionalism and leadership readiness Graduates engage in professional behaviour and have the potential to be entrepreneurial and take leadership roles in their chosen occupations or careers and communities.	3, 4, 5
Attribute 5: Intercultural and ethical competency Graduates are responsible and effective global citizens whose personal values and practices are consistent with their roles as responsible members of society.	1,2, 3, 6
Attribute 6: 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competency Graduates have an understanding of, and respect for, 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, culture and knowledge.	2, 6
Attribute 7: Digital capabilities Graduates are well prepared for living, learning and working in a digital society.	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Attribute 8: Self-awareness and emotional intelligence Graduates are self-aware and reflective; they are flexible and resilient and have the capacity to accept and give constructive feedback; they act with integrity and take responsibility for their actions.	4, 5

Learning Resources

Required Resources

All resources will be advised as necessary and available online.

Recommended Resources

To be advised

Online Learning

MyUni will be used to post announcements, post additional lecture materials (including slides, and where available, audio recordings of lectures) and announce assignment tasks. It will also contain electronic copies of the Course Profile, Lecture and Seminar Guides, and Course Materials.
Students are expected to check MyUni regularly to keep up to date with these materials and additional learning resources throughout the course.
Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching Modes

The course is a RESEARCH SEMINAR and will be treated as such. Each session, with the exception of the first session, will be organised as follows:

50 minutes devoted to an interactive presentation given by the seminar leader. By interactive is meant that while the seminar leader will present the material to be covered, it is expected that students will make contributions during this time. In other words, this is intended to familiarise students, through the form of a directed discussion, with the material which the seminar leader deems to be significant.

Assigned students will make a 20 minute presentation on the materials assigned for that week. This presentation is intended to highlight these students’ thoughts about the materials. There is no set form to this presentation, other than that it MUST NOT BE a reading out of the materials themselves. It MUST BE a reflective and critical assessment of the materials. This will be explained further during the initial sessions of the course.

40-50 minutes devoted to a roundtable discussion in which ALL STUDENTS MUST participate. Implications, problems, criticisms, etc, of the materials will be addressed at this time.

The continuing development of good inter-personal and communication skills is widely recognised as important for all graduates. This course specifically seeks to develop students’ abilities to work in groups and make a group presentation.

It is assumed that students will be "active" learners and not passive recipients of information. It follows that it is absolutely essential that you do the work that is set each week.

These arrangements will be fully explained during the first meeting of the subject.

Workload

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

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

Contact time: Attend one 3-hour seminar per week. This amounts to 36 hours of formal class time across the 12 week semester.

Preparation time: In addition to attending formal classes it is anticipated that students will do substantial independent work to prepare for classes and to complete the course assignments. The 最新糖心Vlog expects full time students (those undertaking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies

Learning Activities Summary

Week 1 The Axial Age

Week 2 The Study of Law and Religion

Week 3 Religious Law

Week 4 International Law

Week 5 United States: The First Amendment – Establishment

Week 6 United States: The First Amendment – Schools, Prayer, Discrimination

Week 7 Canada: The Rule of Law

Week 8 Canada: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Weeks 9 最新糖心Vlog: The Constitution

Week 10 最新糖心Vlog: Anti-Discrimination Legislation

Week 11 最新糖心Vlog: Marriage Equality

Week 12 最新糖心Vlog: Legislating for Religious Freedom

The 最新糖心Vlog'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

Assessment item	% of final mark	Dates	Length	Redeemable	Individual or Group Activity	Learning Outcomes
Class Presentation	30%	Selected groups of students will present between each week	50 minutes	N	Group	1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Paper Topic Synopsis	10%	Monday of Week 5	500 words	N	Individual	1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Final paper	60%	16 June 2023	5,000 words	N	Individual	1, 2, 3, 4, 6

Assessment Related Requirements

It is important that students read and understand the assessment. There are three aspects of assessment for this course. Students are expected to attend and participate in all classes and complete all assessments in the course.

Assessment Detail

A. Paper Topic Synopsis (10%)

Each student must choose a topic in consultation with the lecturer and based upon the materials presented in the course and MUST submit an outline/synopsis of the topic agreed upon and the methodology to be employed to the Course Coordinator on Monday of Week 5.

Word Limit: 500 words

DUE DATE: Monday of Week 5

B. Final Paper (60%)

The paper will be in the form of an essay. This assessment is designed to assess students’ ability critically to examine and evaluate a topic that addresses the issues covered by the course.

The paper must be written in prose style (using complete sentences) adhere to grammatical rules, and use correct spelling. It should be typed, using double spaced paragraphs, on one side of A4 paper.

Word Limit (Final Paper): 5,000 words

DUE DATE (Final Paper): 16 June 2023

C. Class Presentation (30%)

The course is divided up into small and large group sessions. For the purposes of a class presentation, the class will be divided into two member sub-groups. This will be done based upon student interest in a given topic (see Learning Activities Summary).

The 最新糖心Vlog has emphasised the significance of group work in its Graduate Attributes and this component of assessment is designed to develop your interpersonal understanding, teamwork and communication skills. You will be expected to work consistently within your group and to overcome any communication and/or co-operation issues. If you feel that your group is not working appropriately, you are to contact the Course Coordinator in the first instance. A meeting will be set up between the Course Coordinator and members of the group. Every effort will be made to overcome the problem and facilitate successful group work.

The class presentation, based upon your group work, will involve reading, reflecting upon, synthesising, and presenting your thoughts on the materials assigned for a given week. Each student will receive the grade assigned to the group presentation.

As noted above, the reflection is intended to highlight the thoughts of the students making the presentation about the materials. There is no set form to this presentation, other than that it MUST NOT BE a reading out of the materials themselves. Rather, it MUST BE a reflective and critical assessment of the materials. This will be explained further during the initial sessions of the course.

Submission

Students must retain a copy of submitted work.

All assessments will be submitted and monitored through text or code comparative software (e.g. Turnitin) where possible.

The Final Essay and its outline/synopsis must be written in prose style (using complete sentences) adhere to grammatical rules, and use correct spelling. It should be typed, using double spaced paragraphs, on one side of A4 paper. Each paper must be clearly marked with the student’s 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide number.

Markers can refuse to accept assignments that do not have a signed acknowledgement of the 最新糖心Vlog’s policy on plagiarism (below). Students must indicate the word count of each assignment on the front cover page of their assignment.

Extensions are only available on medical or compassionate grounds.

All written work in the Law school is required to comply with The 最新糖心Vlogn Guide to Legal Citation 4.

Final essays will be returned to students within THREE (3) weeks of the due date and feedback will be given pursuant to Law School Policy.

Replacement assessment is available for the Final Paper only, in the form of a resubmission.

Late Submission: 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend. For example, an essay that is submitted after the due date and time but within the first 24 hour period, and that has been graded at 63%, will have 5% deducted, for a final grade of 58%. An essay that is more than 24 hours late will lose 10%, etc. Hard copy submissions made after 5.00pm on a Friday will be assumed to have been submitted on the next business day and will be penalised accordingly.

Word Length: Assignments which exceed the allocated length (word length or page limit) will be subject to a penalty of 5% of total marks possible per 100 words or part thereof (ie with a word limit of 3,000, an essay graded 63% will have 5% deducted if it is 3001 words long, for a final grade of 58%, 10% if it is 3101 words long, etc). Words are calculated including all footnotes and headings within the text but excluding cover page information. Quotations and all referencing information are included in the word count.

Course Grading

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

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

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.

The assessment in this course will be assessed according crieria distributed with the assignment instructions.

Courses for which a result of conceded pass has been obtained may not be presented towards the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Laws or the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws programs, or any postgraduate law program, nor to satisfy prerequisite requirements within any law course.

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/exams/results.html

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 最新糖心Vlog’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 最新糖心Vlog’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 最新糖心Vlog 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.

Student Feedback

The 最新糖心Vlog places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the 最新糖心Vlog to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.

Student feedback The course is constantly being updated and revised to reflect the evolution of the law, to respond to student feedback, and to engage with the latest teaching practices. Student feedback is collected each time the course is run, including through SELT reports. Previous SELT reports, and staff feedback on them, are posted on the course MyUni site for students to view and consider.
Student Support
The provides academic learning and language development services and resources for local, international, undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide.

The centre offers practical advice and strategies for students to master reading, writing, note-taking, time management, oral presentation skills, referencing techniques and exam preparation for success at university through seminars, workshops and individual consultations.

Lex Salus Program
Lex Salus (law and wellbeing) is an initiative of the Adelaide Law School aimed at destigmatising mental health issues; promoting physical, mental and emotional wellness; building a strong community of staff and students; and celebrating diversity within the school. It also seeks to promote wellness within the legal profession, through the involvement of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South 最新糖心Vlog, the Honourable Chris Kourakis, as the official Patron of the program.

Students can participate in the Lex Salus program by attending barbecue lunches, pancake breakfasts, knitting and crochet circles, seminars, guest speakers, conferences and other activities. Our , and regular all-student emails promote upcoming events, and have tips and information on wellness.

Our Lex Salus YouTube channel also includes videos on topics like managing stress, and interviews with LGBTQ lawyers and their supporters which celebrate diversity and individuality. Students who commit to 10 hours of volunteering with Lex Salus in one year can have their service recognised on their academic transcript and through a thank you morning tea with the Chief Justice and law school staff.

Student Life Counselling Support
The 最新糖心Vlog’s service provides free and confidential service to all enrolled students. We encourage you to contact the Student Life Counselling Support service on 8313 5663 to make an appointment to deal with any issues that may be affecting your study and life.
Policies & Guidelines
This section contains links to relevant assessment-related policies and guidelines - all university policies.
Academic Integrity
All students must be familiar with the 最新糖心Vlog’s Academic Integrity Policy. Academic Misconduct is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the 最新糖心Vlog. Academic Misconduct (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South 最新糖心Vlog to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South 最新糖心Vlog. Academic Integrity is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.
Fraud Awareness

Students are reminded that in order to maintain the academic integrity of all programs and courses, the university has a zero-tolerance approach to students offering money or significant value goods or services to any staff member who is involved in their teaching or assessment. Students offering lecturers or tutors or professional staff anything more than a small token of appreciation is totally unacceptable, in any circumstances. Staff members are obliged to report all such incidents to their supervisor/manager, who will refer them for action under the university's student鈥檚 disciplinary procedures.

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