Course topics.

Try this with Legal Studies

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Categories of Crime in NSW
• Defences to Criminal Charges
• Elements of a Crime: Actus Reus and Mens Rea
• Police Powers and Individual Rights
• Principal Offenders and Accessorial Liability
• Purposes and Factors in Sentencing
• The Role of the Jury and the Adversarial System
• Domestic Protection of Human Rights in Australia
• Non-Government Organisations and Human Rights Advocacy
• Refugees and the Right to Seek Asylum
• Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• The International Human Rights Framework
• Divorce and Property Settlement under the Family Law Act
• Domestic Violence and Family Law Responses
• Parenting Orders and the Best Interests of the Child
• The Fair Work Act and the National Employment Framework
• Workplace Discrimination and Anti-Discrimination Law
• International Humanitarian Law and Armed Conflict
• State Sovereignty versus Humanitarian Intervention
• The United Nations and Collective Security