Course overview
This innovative foundational course is a dynamic offering that incorporates emerging issues as they arise nationally and globally. It challenges students to critique current legal, societal and political issues through a lens of legislation, case law, legal theory and philosophy. Students will be supported to develop the research skills to plan a major project that will critically and creatively analyse the law’s ability to respond to future challenges, including the role of legislatures and lawyers to activate change in areas such as sustainability and big data. It is a foundation for the Future Law Project, where students will apply these perspectives to propose solutions to some of these contemporary real-world problems.
- The Beginning – Foundational Concepts
- Law And Ethics In Action
- Research And Ethics Into The Future
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the core principles of legal and broader ethics, and the differences between them.
- Identify how law can respond to social challenges, using domestic and international law and theories of law.
- Apply legal research skills to critically analyse how law can respond to social challenges and identify possibilities for resolution.
- Articulate the possibilities and challenges for law in contributing to the resolution of social challenges.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 58392
Section FR01
Size 400
Available 399
Class number 55330
Section TU01
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55331
Section TU02
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55332
Section TU03
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55333
Section TU04
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55334
Section TU05
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55335
Section TU06
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 55336
Section TU07
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58399
Section TU08
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58398
Section TU09
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58397
Section TU10
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58396
Section TU11
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 58395
Section TU12
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58394
Section TU13
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 58393
Section TU14
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58341
Section TU15
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58340
Section TU16
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 58339
Section TU17
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58338
Section TU18
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58337
Section TU19
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 58336
Section TU20
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 55337
Section WS02
Size 80
Available 79
Class number 55338
Section WS03
Size 80
Available 80
Class number 55339
Section WS04
Size 80
Available 80
Class number 58403
Section WS10
Size 80
Available 80
Class number 58402
Section WS11
Size 80
Available 80
Class number 58401
Section WS12
Size 80
Available 80
Class number 58400
Section WS14
Size 80
Available 80
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