Handbook

Law is part of the environment in which we live and work and impacts and/or reacts to changing social and political issues. This course focuses on how the law must constantly adapt and undergo renewal in order to meet the changing needs of society while also maintaining continuities within the legal tradition. This means that not every pressure group can be accommodated, not everyone's values in a pluralistic society can be equally respected without sacrificing certain Australian values and beliefs. Ultimately it will be Australian legal institutions, the federal, state and territory legislatures which decide how to effect these changes and the courts which provide judicial oversight of the laws made by the legislatures.