LAWS8214 GLOBAL COMMON LAW SYSTEMS
Article or Book Chapter Review
Term 1, 2023

Weighting 40% of total marks for LAWS8214 Global Common Law Systems.
Due date 19 March 2023 (Sunday of Week 5) at 5pm AEST
Submission platform
You are required to submit an electronic copy of your assignment via
Turnitin. Turnitin is software that assists in the assessment of academic
integrity. Among other things, Turnitin identifies:
• plagiarism (see discussion below)
• academic misconduct, including hidden text (e.g., hyphens) and
images.
You are allowed ONE submission only. It is your responsibility to
upload the correct document. Your teacher will only assess the
document that is submitted.
Assignment format
The assignment must:
• be submitted as a .doc, .docx or PDF (do not submit Apple Pages)
• contain text only, no images of text are permitted
• contain headings and subheadings
• use a footnote referencing system (no intext referencing)
• have 3cm margins
• be paginated
• record the actual number of words contained in the body of the
paper, including footnotes (see the discussion about the word limit
below).
Late submissions
Penalties will apply for any work submitted after the due date unless you
have obtained a formal extension prior to the date for submission (see
request for Special Consideration below). The penalty applied will be 5%
of the available marks for the assignment for each day or part thereof
that the assignment is late. The penalty will be capped at five days (120
hours) from the assignment deadline, after which late work will not be
accepted. Please carefully review the UNSW Law & Justice Assessment
Procedure and Student Information (under “Assessment Hub”).
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Word limit
1,500 words (including footnotes). No 10% leeway. Make sure the
“Include footnotes in word count” box is CHECKED in Microsoft Word.
Technical support is available here.
Word limit penalty
Penalties will apply to assignments which exceed the word limit as
follows:
Exceeds by up to 10% — 10% penalty;
Exceeds by 10%+ up to 20% — 15% penalty;
Exceeds by 20%+ up to 30% — 25% penalty;
Exceeds by more than 30% — 30% penalty.
Please carefully review the UNSW Law & Justice Assessment Procedure
and Student Information (under “Assessment Hub”).
Legal citation
All sources referred to in the assignment must be formally cited using a
footnote referencing system (i.e., no in-text referencing) in accordance
with the fourth edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC).
This is one of the assessment criteria, which means that your use of
the AGLC will be assessed and marked.
See the “Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed)” section on Moodle
for more information.
No bibliography A bibliography is NOT required.
Special Consideration
Requests for an extension due to illness, misadventure, or extenuating
other circumstances beyond your control will only be considered via a
formal application for special consideration: see here. Neither teachers
nor convenors can give informal extensions. If you apply for Special
Consideration, please notify your teacher as soon as practicable.
Plagiarism and
academic misconduct
It is assumed that you are thoroughly familiar with the policies of UNSW
regarding academic misconduct and plagiarism. Ignorance of the rules is
not an acceptable defence against an allegation of academic misconduct.
See the course Moodle page for links to the relevant policies.
Tips
 Write succinctly.
 Do not quote extensively from the source. Paraphrase appropriately
instead, but always cite. Remember that inappropriate
paraphrasing may constitute plagiarism.
 Avoid repetition and avoid being overly descriptive.
 Use subheadings to help structure your answer.
 Use original sources where possible, i.e., do not discuss a journal
article that discusses another source – go to the source itself.
Remember that inappropriate citation may constitute plagiarism.
 You are encouraged to post administrative/procedural questions
about the assignment on the Assignment Forum. The course
convenor will answer any questions for the benefit of all students.
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INSTRUCTIONS

Select ONE source from the list below:
• Michelle Foster, Hélène Lambert and Jane McAdam, ‘Refugee Protection in the COVID-19
Crisis and Beyond: The Capacity and Limits of International Law’ (2021) 44(1) UNSW Law
Journal 104.
• Robert McCorquodale and Justine Nolan, ‘The Effectiveness of Human Rights Due Diligence
for Preventing Business Human Rights Abuses’ (2021) 68(3) Netherlands International Law
Review 455.
• Joshua Karton, ‘International Arbitration as Comparative Law in Action’ (2020) 2020(2) Journal
of Dispute Resolution 293
• Carrie Menkel-Meadow, ‘Hybrid and Mixed Dispute Resolution Processes: Integrities of
Process Pluralism’ in Maria Moscati, Michael Palmer and Marion Roberts (eds), Comparative
Dispute Resolution (Edward Elgar, 2020) 405.
• Jane C. Ginsburg, ‘The Concept of Authorship in Comparative Copyright Law’ (2002-2003)
52(4) DePaul Law Review 1063.
• Andres Guadamuz, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Copyright? Comparative Analysis of
Originality in Artificial Intelligence Generated Works’ (2017) 2017(2) Intellectual Property
Quarterly 169.
• Chris Pearce, ‘Caveat Emptor or Caveat Venditor? Stigmatised Properties and Obligations of
Disclosure’ in Sue Farran, Russell Hewitson and Adam Ramshaw (eds), Modern Studies in
Property Law, Volume 11 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) 25.
• Michael Graff, ‘Law and Finance: Common Law and Civil Law Countries Compared: An
Empirical Critique’ (2008) 75 New Series 60.
• David Hamer, ‘The Unstable Province of Jury Fact-Finding: Evidence Exclusion, Probative Value
and Judicial Restraint After IMM v The Queen’ (2018) 41(2) Melbourne University Law Review
689.
• Gary Edmond and Mehera San Roque, ‘The Cool Crucible: Forensic Science and the Frailty of
the Criminal Trial’ (2012) 24(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 51.

Write a critical review of your selected source. The task is to engage with, and respond to, the
argument(s) advanced by the author(s). Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments
advanced. Make sure to substantiate any claim you make, factual or legal, including by
referencing and engaging with appropriate primary and secondary sources.
The papers that will score highest will be those that review the source using thoughtful and critical
discussion and analysis, and that engage with legal scholarship on the topic. More information
about the assessment criteria is available in the materials for the writing workshop (under ‘Week
4’), alongside various helpful resources.