Good Governance: Navigating Law for Public Managers
Good Governance: Navigating Law for Public Managers
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…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
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. Explore how rule of law standards impact public administration: 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. Examine how the public service is central to governance in accordance with the rule of law: 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. Understand the challenges faced by public servants in upholding the rule of law: 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. Develop your practical skills: 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.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this Melbourne MicroCert, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the principal rules, standards and practices that determine how government implements the rule of law. You’ll be able to: Examine the importance of the rule of law to public administration, and to the activity of those actors that work with and within government; Apply practical frameworks and theoretical tools to analyse the legal and political environments operating in the government sector; Evaluate principal legal elements of the constitutional and legal frameworks and their implications for significant contemporary challenges in public policy.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
