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SLSS2606: Key Debates in Socio-Legal Studies
2025 unit information
This unit explores key debates in Socio-Legal Studies. Students will gain knowledge of theoretical perspectives and examine how they can be used to explain complex socio-legal problems. The unit starts by identifying foundational debates in law and society, focusing on classical sociological theorists and their examination of modernity. We then explore how feminist, queer, critical race, and postcolonial theories critiqued these foundations. In the third section, we focus on key legal challenges of today’s world - globalisation, biotechnology, climate change, artificial intelligence - to ask how social theory can assist us in tackling them.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-Legal Studies |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an advanced understanding of sociological theories in the study of law and society
- LO2. demonstrate the critical capacity to relate socio-legal theory to appropriate methods and techniques
- LO3. assimilate, organise and criticise a corpus of academic materials
- LO4. organise, critically analyse and relate to substantive and theoretical concerns within a body of empirical material and data
- LO5. display strong personal and intellectual autonomy, and interpersonal and communicative skills.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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