PCE2040

Legal regulation and social relationships

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

Scott Beattie

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* Prohibited combination: PCE1040

Objectives On completion of this subject, the student will be expected to have gained an understanding of the relationships between specific legal rules and doctrines, and societal norms, including traditional policy frameworks or custom; specific legal processes, themes and laws which serve to regulate social interaction, behaviour and community relationships.

Synopsis The aim of this subject is to investigate specific legal themes which serve to regulate social behaviour and community relationships. Topics analysed will include civil liberty and the legal notion of freedom - including a review of international human rights, civil and criminal commitment; the notions of legality and a morality; police and freedom, the ambit of anti-discrimination laws; specific instances of anti-discrimination regulation - employment, education, accommodation, the provision of goods and services and migration, indigenous Australians; policing anti-discrimination law; and analysis of family and individual relationships, including the legal and social implications of marriage; legal regulation of marital dissolution and family breakdown, care and control of children; policing domestic violence.

Assessment Essay (3000 words): 40%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Tutorial presentation and short paper (500 words): 20%

Recommended texts

Bailey P Human rights: Australia in an international context Butterworths, 1990
Davidson A and Spegele R Rights, justice and democracy in Australia Longman Cheshire, 1991
Gaze B and Jones M Law, liberty and Australian democracy Law Book, 1990
Goldthorpe J E Family life in Western societies Cambridge Press, 1987
Sykes R Black majority Hudson Publishing, 1989