The following links will give you some guidance on topics that other students have recently asked us about. You can also find more information about legal topics that are suitable for school assignments from the Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC).

Privacy Privacy is a rapidly changing and controversial area of legal policy. [More...]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the original inhabitants of Australia and have endured a history of dispossession and inappropriate treatment by the legal system. In many cases this requires a legal and policy response that is different to that which needs to be adopted for immigrant cultural, ethnic and other interest groups. The Law Reform Commission has considered the special needs of Indigenous people in a number of its reviews. [More...]

Surrogate motherhood is an arrangement where a woman agrees to become pregnant and to bear a child for other people and then to give custody of that child to them at or shortly after birth. The Commission recommended reforms of the law in this area in 1988 [More...]

Juries are an important part of our justice system and serving on a jury is seen as an important duty of citizenship. This importance is reflected in the fact that the Law Reform Commission has looked into aspects of the law relating to juries many times. [More...]

The criminal law of New South Wales covers a very wide range of activities and the Law Reform Commission has conducted numerous reviews of aspects of the criminal law over the years. [More...]

There are also some student resources available on the Lawlink website.