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SLSS1003: Law, Policy and Society II
2027 unit information
This unit of study applies socio-legal thinking to the complex social issues shaping contemporary life. It examines how law responds to welfare, migration, technology, bodies, animals and environmental harm, using real-world case studies and global examples. Students explore how power, risk and responsibility are managed through law and policy, and when legal responses succeed or fail. Who decides what counts as a crisis? When does law protect, and when does it harm? The unit develops students' capacity to critically question legal authority, assess social impact, and challenge injustice. Students learn to imagine law as a tool for accountability, resistance and transformative social change.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. familiarise yourself with the nature and dynamics of Australian legal ideas, practices and institutions in their social, historical, cultural, political and economic contexts
- LO2. address legal issues using the methods and perspectives of a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and investigate the issues central to those disciplines using the specific intellectual methods and materials of law and legal theory
- LO3. demonstrate improved oral communication through individual participation in tutorial discussion groups and written communication skills through the submission of written assessment tasks
- LO4. demonstrate strengthened analytical and research skills, including the ability to identify and evaluate different interpretations of an issue, present evidence and argument in support of your own particular position
- LO5. demonstrate enhanced problem-solving skills and capacity to work to a particular goal as part of a group
- LO6. understand how legal discourse and reasoning differs from other approaches to knowledge.
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Semester 2 2027
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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