LAWS3534: First Nations Advocacy

2027 unit information

First Nations Advocacy examines colonisation from an Indigenous standpoint through the perspectives of First Nations practitioners and community organisers. The unit focuses on three interrelated areas: Aboriginal land rights, including colonisation, dispossession, and the emergence of land rights claims v native title; criminal law, including the construction of crime and the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the criminal legal system; and coronial law, including Aboriginal deaths in custody. Through guided practice, case-based learning, and critical reflection, students develop practical advocacy skills, including oral advocacy, while examining the ethical, political, and jurisprudential issues that arise when law is approached from a First Nations standpoint. The unit enables students to critically analyse Western legal concepts, understand the role of law in ongoing colonial harm, and develop advocacy informed by First Nations sovereignty, self-determination and justice.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Sydney Law School

Details

Study level	Undergraduate
Academic unit	Law
Credit points	6

Enrolment rules

Prerequisites: ?	LAWS1025 or LAWS1027 or LAWS1029 or LAWS1021 or LAWS2017
Corequisites: ?	None
Prohibitions: ?	None
Assumed knowledge: ?	None

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Session	MoA ?	Location	Outline ?
Semester 2a 2027	Block mode	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	Outline unavailable

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