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34 Legal Educ. Rev. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/legedr34 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPERVISING UNDERGRADUATE LAW STUDENTS' DISSERTATIONS: A FOUR-STEP REVIEW JAYDEN HOUGHTON* AND ORIEL KELLY^ I INTRODUCTION Students in the 480-point LLB program at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law are invited to enrol in the 540-points LLB(Hons) program if they complete their stage one and two Law courses 1 with a 75% average. 2 The LLB and LLB(Hons) are undergraduate programs and the same except that LLB(Hons) students need to enrol in a full-year (two-semester) 20-point seminar course3 and a one-semester 40-point dissertation, which is assessed by a 15,000- word dissertation. Students enrol in the dissertation in their final semester of the LLB(Hons) program. Students generally engage a supervisor and start work on the dissertation in the semester before formally enrolling. Many students are already in full-time employment while completing the dissertation. In 2020-2021, the lead author supervised 12 undergraduate LLB(Hons) students' 15,000-word dissertations. The supervision process was in four parts: reviewing the proposal; reviewing the introduction; reviewing the first draft (10,000 words); and reviewing the second draft (15,000 words). The authors invited the supervisees to Rereahu Maniapoto. Senior Lecturer, Assistant Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. The authors thank Tara McGoldrick, Sian Vaughan-Jones, Jason Coates and Shaun Gallagher for their research assistance. The authors also thank all participants in the study. Any errors are our own. Curriculum Development Manager, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. The LLB degree has four stages. In stage one, students study Law and Society, Legal Method and Legal Foundations, as well as electives from another degree program. In stage two, students study Criminal Law, Public Law, the Law of Torts, and the Law of Contract, as well as Legal Research, Writing and Communication. In stage three, students study Land Law, Equity, and Jurisprudence, as well as law electives. In stage four, students study Legal Ethics, as well as Advanced Legal Research, Writing and Communication, and law electives. Each stage equates to about a year of full-time study for students studying an LLB degree only. For conjoint students, stage two is usually spread over two years to allow students to simultaneously progress their other degree. A conjoint degree at the University of Auckland is when students study for two bachelor's degrees at the same time, but do not need to take as many courses in each bachelor's degree as students studying those bachelor's degrees separately. 2 Students must maintain a 75% average across their Law courses to graduate with LLB(Hons). 3 The seminar course is assessed by a combination of internal assessment (such as participation, a research proposal and a presentation) and a 10,000-word research paper.

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