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
Group 1
Class number 62125
Section LE01
Size 400
Available 365
Class number 62098
Section TU20
Size 25
Available 13
Class number 62099
Section TU19
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 62100
Section TU18
Size 25
Available 22
Class number 62101
Section TU17
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 62103
Section TU15
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 62104
Section TU14
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 62105
Section TU13
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 62106
Section TU12
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 62107
Section TU11
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 62108
Section TU10
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 62109
Section TU09
Size 25
Available 22
Class number 62111
Section TU07
Size 25
Available 24
Class number 62112
Section TU06
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 62113
Section TU05
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 62114
Section TU04
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 62116
Section TU02
Size 25
Available 23
Class number 62117
Section TU01
Size 25
Available 22
Class number 62118
Section WS07
Size 80
Available 78
Class number 62119
Section WS06
Size 80
Available 71
Class number 62120
Section WS05
Size 80
Available 75
Class number 62121
Section WS04
Size 80
Available 75
Class number 62122
Section WS03
Size 80
Available 73
Class number 62123
Section WS02
Size 80
Available 77
Class number 62124
Section WS01
Size 80
Available 76
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