Non-Award
Better understand how the rule of law shapes government's role and informs public policymaking. This course explores the legal and political environments public sector professionals must navigate to ensure effective governance and policy development.
Better understand how the rule of law shapes government's role and informs public policymaking.
Understanding the work of government requires a sharp understanding of how public policy is shaped by legal frameworks.
This Melbourne MicroCert explores the legal and political environments public sector professionals must navigate to ensure governments can respond effectively to the challenges communities face.
This course is ideal for public sector professionals, especially non-lawyers, who want to understand how rule of law standards shape policymaking, protect rights, and prevent arbitrary governance.
There are no formal eligibility requirements to enrol in this course, but it is recommended you have either an undergraduate degree or at least three years of professional experience in a relevant field (such as policy design/development, program implementation, management, evaluation, or corporate services).
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Understanding the work of government requires a sharp understanding of how public policy is shaped by legal frameworks.
This Melbourne MicroCert explores the legal and political environments public sector professionals must navigate to ensure governments can respond effectively to the challenges communities face.
This course is ideal for public sector professionals, especially non-lawyers, who want to understand how rule of law standards shape policymaking, protect rights, and prevent arbitrary governance.
Examine competing visions of the rule of law, which encompasses everything from procedural fairness to values such as human rights. Enhance your understanding of public policymaking and explore how law and broader rule of law standards both empower and constrain public servants when crafting policy.
Discuss the many roles public servants play in supporting governance in accordance with the rule of law: as experts, holders of institutional memory, policy implementers, and guardians of rule of law standards.
Explore how the rule of law has evolved over time and how contemporary trends are presenting difficult challenges, including the maintenance of basic legality in exercising government power and adequate oversight across service delivery.
Connect rule of law theories to practice and public service values through interactive exercises. You'll become familiar with rule of law language, gain a greater understanding of your authorising environment, analyse key legal frameworks, and discover how law is the source of all government power.
This Melbourne MicroCert runs over six weeks, including four weeks of delivery and two weeks for you to complete assessment tasks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes: