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Legal Studies
Stage 1
Subject outline
Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024.
Accredited in June 2020 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2021.
Accredited in June 2020 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2021.
Stage 1 | Subject outline | Focus areas
Focus areas
Students complete a study of Focus area 1: Law and communities, and then complete
- at least two additional focus areas for a 10-credit subject
- at least four additional focus areas for a 20-credit subject
from the suggested focus areas listed below, or alternative focus areas developed by teachers in negotiation with students.
Some suggested focus areas include:
- government
- law-making
- justice and society
- young people and the law
- contemporary issues and the law
- victims and the law
- motorists and the law
- young workers and the law
- relationships and the law
- media and the law
- sport and the law
- entertainment and the law
- technology and the law
- animals and the law
- women and the law
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the law
- environment and the law
- refugees and asylum seekers and the law
- transnational legal rights
- crime, law, and punishment
- minority groups and the law
- emerging legal issues
- royal commissions
- family law.