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

• Six principles of liberal democracy as the lens for Section A
• Separation of powers in Australia: overlap, independence and checks
• Rule of law in Australia: equality, accountability and its limits
• Constitutional monarchy, responsible government and a bicameral parliament
• Exclusive, concurrent and residual powers and the role of the High Court
• Tasmanian Dams, Croome, Uniform Tax and Roads: the shift to Canberra
• Referral of powers and referendums: changing the division of power
• First Nations peoples and the Constitution: 1901, 1967, 2023 and beyond
• Customary law, terra nullius and Mabo
• How a bill becomes law: parliament, cabinet and legislative scrutiny
• Court hierarchies, precedent and judges as law makers
• Law reform bodies, inquiries, committees and pressure groups
• International law: how it differs, why states obey, how it is enforced
• Writing the Section B TLI essay: views, institutions, processes, evaluation
• The 2026 Topical Legal Issues mapped to Part 3 of the course
• Purpose and features of the adversary system
• Advantages and limitations of the adversary system and the principles of justice
• Alternative dispute resolution and the limits of the adversary system
• Safeguards for the accused and rights of victims and the community
• Tasmanian sentencing: laws, aims, factors and options