Legal+Studies

=The use of ICT for teaching Legal Studies=

Parliamentary Websites
The Australian Parliament House website contains useful information on areas such as the senate and legislative process, for example: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/briefs/brief08.htm

The NSW Parliament website also includes a range of educational resources including a publication on understanding acts, role play activities etc: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/V3ListEducational Guided tours can also be arranged for school students.

Free Legal Information Websites
An excellent resource for teachers and students of Legal Studies is the Legal Information Access Centre which is maintained by the NSW State Library: [|http://www.liac.sl.nsw.gov.au/.] It has a page for Legal Studies students which includes a [|Legal Studies Research Guide]. The Legal Studies Research Guide contains pages for each of the Legal Studies Focus Studies in the HSC and preliminary courses. Each page contains a reference list of texts, newspaper articles, websites, cases and legislation with links or directions to these resources. Also useful is the access students and teachers can gain to databases such as AGISPlus or Proquest by registering with the NSW State Library. You can then search for journal and magazine articles at home or at school for free.

Another online free-access resource for Australian legal information is the Australasian Legal Information Institute database (AustLII) http://www.austlii.edu.au. AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information, with over 2 million searchable documents. AustLII publishes public legal information -- that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports for example) and a substantial collection of law journals.