社会法律研究是在其社会和历史背景下研究法律思想，实践和制度。检查制定和执行法律的机构-议会，法院和警察。了解法律惯例及其影响，包括逮捕和监禁，使用闭路电视监控，规范业务，执行人权和起诉国际战争罪。该专业的两个主要要素是犯罪学-“审查犯罪和刑罚的逻辑，法医学和法医学的做法”和人权。了解法律制度在不同社区中的影响，考虑法律在不同国家和地区的运作方式，并了解法律随着时间的变化。
Socio-Legal Studies is the study of legal ideas, practices and institutions in their social, cultural and historical contexts. Examine the institutions that make and enforce laws parliament, the courts and the police. <br>In your first-year units you will be introduced to the key ideas and concepts that socio-legal scholars have developed to help understand the world. Understand the foundations of the Australian legal system and examine how law and society interacts by engaging with contemporary socio-legal issues. You will also become familiar with the methods and techniques that will enable you to undertake your own research. Your senior units will consolidate your grasp of theory and methods and enable you to focus on particular topics in socio-legal studies, such as the philosophy of law and justice, the changing international regime of human rights, crime and punishment and medico-legal and forensic practices.<br><br>You will engage with these aspects of socio-legal studies in lectures and tutorials, but also in the real world. You will learn to write and think in socio-legal terms using essays, reports, oral group work, posters, debates, and new social media.