Law, Justice and Power
UndergraduateLTU-LST2LJP2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Law, Justice and Power
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Assess knowledge and practices relevant to law, justice and power in light of ethical and cultural considerations. From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, discuss the centrality and complexity of power and the elusiveness of justice.
- Discuss concepts and perspectives relevant to law, justice and power and the principles, processes, values and functions of the Australian legal system.
- Facilitate and participate in group discussions of the principles, processes, values and functions of Australian criminal justice system, and organisations in an international context.
- Identify and write about current trends, issues and debates relevant to the gap between the theory and practice of law, as well as problems in knowledge or practices relevant.
- Riots and Protests
- Court Buildings and Trials
- Therapeutic Jurisprudence
- Restorative Justice
- How Power Works
Law, Justice and Power is the core subject for second year students undertaking a major in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies. This subject investigates how power works and the ways justice is experienced within and beyond the law. While you will be provided with a general understanding of a range of legal institutions and processes, you will also consider the limitations and possibilities of law as a practice. Case studies include trials and court buildings, restorative justice, sexual offence law, therapeutic jurisprudence, kaleidoscopic jurisprudence, riots, human rights and royal commissions. You are invited to explore how law, as a range of social, political and cultural systems, exercises and regulates power while it administers and inhibits justice.
This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling.
- Reading based assessment. (equivalent to 1000 words in total). The first two are delivered in weeks 1 and 3 (10%) with feedback returned to students by week 4. (20%)
- Group Presentation with group and individual reflections on group work (equivalent to 1200 words). (30%)
- One 2000-word research essay (50%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 30 credit points of level 1 subjects.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
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