SLSS1001 - Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies

Undergraduate

UoS Description:

This unit provides students with an introduction to the understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices in their social and historical contexts. It will provide an historical overview of legal institutions and forms of law in Australia, the place of the idea of the rule of law in state-formation, liberalism, processes of civilization and colonialism, law and the public/private distinction, changing conceptions of human rights, as well as outlining the central features of the various fields of law.

Available to Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only

UoS Learning Situations:

two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week

UoS Assessment:

class participation (10%), one 1500 word take-home exam (40%), one 3000 word essay (50%)

UoS Readings/References:

Unit reader will be available through the Copy Centre