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Legal Studies
Explain human-rights protections, analyse legal issues and justify legal responses using evidence. The required EA checklist is limited to Unit 4 Topics 1 and 3.
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Explain international human-rights foundations
- Distinguish rights, declarations and treaty obligationsExternal exam
- Explain features and protections of a relevant human-rights treatyExternal exam
- Trace treaty consent through to domestic legal effectExternal exam
- Explain sovereignty and other rights of statesExternal exam
- Explain how the UN and its agencies protect rightsExternal exam
Explain protection and its limits in Australia
- Explain constitutional rights, powers and their limitsExternal exam
- Explain how anti-discrimination laws protect rightsExternal exam
- Explain how parliamentary scrutiny supports human rightsExternal exam
- Explain rights and their limits in criminal and civil contextsExternal exam
Explain enforcement, complaints and advocacy
- Explain a rights complaint and the available legal processesExternal exam
- Explain the AHRC role, powers and limitationsExternal exam
- Explain how courts protect rights within their jurisdictionExternal exam
- Analyse how a group advocates for human rightsExternal exam
- Explain how media activity can protect human rightsExternal exam
Analyse the issue using the supplied evidence
- Determine the nature and scope of a legal issueExternal exam
- Apply relevant legal principles to the stimulus factsExternal exam
- Explain competing viewpoints and their consequencesExternal exam
- Use and synthesise relevant stimulus to support analysisExternal exam
Evaluate alternatives and justify a conclusion
- Derive distinct legal alternatives from the analysisExternal exam
- Use legal criteria to judge a proposed responseExternal exam
- Justify a decision that answers the legal questionExternal exam
- Discuss plausible implications of the recommendationExternal exam
Supporting governance and reform
- Analyse how governance structures shape law-makingSupporting learning
- Evaluate a contemporary law-reform proposalSupporting learning
Supporting international legal responses
- Explain international human-rights monitoringSupporting learning
- Evaluate an international institutional responseSupporting learning
Internal-assessment inquiry performances
- Select and reference current, relevant legal researchInternal assessment only
- Construct a researched legal inquiry reportInternal assessment only
- Construct a researched analytical legal essayInternal assessment only