Description

Available October 2024

Keeping NSW Stage 6 Legal Studies classrooms relevant with a new edition of the most trusted resource available

Cambridge Legal Studies Stage 6 Sixth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the syllabus, including all seven options in the Year 12 course. The most widely covered HSC options are included in the student print text, while the extended digital version includes additional topics and chapters.

Updated and highly topical case studies, media articles, legislation and statistics reflecting recent changes in the law, ensure students are engaging with the most up-to-date material available and can apply their knowledge to real-world situations

Features

•Two new chapters in Year 11 Law in Practice: a study of Sean Turnell, a previously detained economic policy advisor in Myanmar, and a research-based chapter on Drugs and the Law.

•New topics in Year 11Individual and Technology, including data breaches, surveillance capitalism and artificial Intelligence.

•New ‘Analysis’ activities and Updated ‘Review’ and ‘Research’ activities to provide Assessment for Learning* opportunities to help students understand their progress

.•Comprehensive exam and assessment preparation support, including dot-point summaries of themes and challenges, chapter summaries, additional exam-style multiple-choice and extended-response questions and more

.•Updated Interactive Textbooks that support students visually through rich media, rollover glossary definitions, interactive activities, extended material, and additional digital-only topics.

* As advised by NESA in their “Assessment for Reporting in Legal Studies Stage 6” report

Contents

PART I – THE LEGAL SYSTEM
1. Basic legal concepts
2. Sources of contemporary Australian law
3. Classification of law
4. Law reform
5. Law reform in action
-Topic 1 – Law reform and native title
-Topic 2 – Law reform and sport
-Topic 3 – Law reform and sexual assault
-Topic 4 – Young drivers and the law

PART II – THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE LAW
6. Your rights and responsibilities
7. Resolving disputes
8. Contemporary issue: The individual and technology

PART III – LAW IN PRACTICE
Issue 1: Groups or individuals suffering disadvantage
9. Children and young people
10. Women
11. Migrants (digital only)
12. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (digital only)
13. People who have a mental illness (digital only)

Issue 2: Events that highlight legal issues
14. The Bali Nine
15. The Port Arthur massacre

Issue 3: Individuals or groups in conflict with the state
16. Sean Turnell
17. Julian Assange
18. Outlaw motorcycle gangs (digital only)
19. Behrouz Boochani

Issue 4: Criminal or civil cases that raise issues of interest to students
20. The Christchurch terror attacks
21. Facebook and social media privacy issues
22. Drugs and the law