First Principles of Business Law

An introduction to legal studies
1. Some preliminary questions

1.1. Getting started

 

 

It is a good idea, at the start of your legal studies, to think about some very basic questions such as those listed below. 

Click on the questions to see why they are important.  Answers will be considered in the sections that follow.

 

 - What different kinds of behavioural rule exist?
 - Where does modern Australian law come from?
 - How are legal rules organised?
 - In what different ways can law influence behaviour?
 - Who has the power to make new law?
 - What terminology describes the hierarchy of legal ideas?
 - What sort of reasoning do judges use when deciding cases?
 - What is the relationship between law, justice and ethics?
 - How should hypothical problem-solving exercises be approached?
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