Legal Needs and Legal Assistance explores the public understanding and experience of law, the impact of legal problem experience, the need for and use of legal...

Legal Needs and Legal Assistance (LAWS0323)

Legal Needs and Legal Assistance explores the public understanding and experience of law, the impact of legal problem experience, the need for and use of legal assistance services, the availability and obstacles to legal assistance, the relationship between clients and lawyers/advisors, the nature and structure of public legal assistance services, and the potential for remodelling public legal assistance services to best match the needs of the public. The course therefore takes a ‘bottom up’, rather than ‘top down’, approach to the justice system; making it particularly relevant to those with an interest in access to justice, broader social justice, and the nature and development of public legal assistance, including legal aid.

The module provides the opportunity for rigorous study of selected topics in contemporary Anglo-American general jurisprudence.

General jurisprudence, broadly...

Jurisprudence and Legal Theory A (LAWS0304)

The module provides the opportunity for rigorous study of selected topics in contemporary Anglo-American general jurisprudence.

General jurisprudence, broadly speaking, is an inquiry into the nature of law.  This half module will canvas and also take some concentrated looks at Austin’s command theory of law, Hart’s theory based on a combination of two kinds of rules, Dworkin’s inerpretivist theory, and Raz’s authority-based theory.  Along the way, we will deal with some of the relevant issues such as the nature of legal adjudication, the relation between law and morality, the difference between norms and values on the one hand and natural and social facts on the other, etc.

This module examines the growth of national security law as a discipline and the various tensions with the rule of law and human rights that occur when seeking...

Aspects of National Security Law (LAWS0292)