Coordinator:  Associate Professor Miranda Stewart    Telephone:  83446544    Office:   Room 0744    Email:   Click here to email Miranda Stewart

 

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites

Prerequisites: Legal Method and Reasoning, Principles of Public Law or equivalent subjects

Prerequisite subject requirements indicate those specified or their equivalents.

Generic Skills

Description

Taxing and spending are core functions of government.  They are also central ways that our society, through the state, seeks to encourage economic growth, to provide welfare for the disadvantaged, and to regulate our work, saving and investment behaviour.  Taxes and expenditures affect most of our major economic and life decisions about work, family, education, housing, and our decisions about when and how we save, consume and invest.
This subject examines the intersection between taxation, welfare and government expenditure policy.  The subject will provide an analysis of core issues in tax, social security, expenditure policy and regulation.  It will then examine the law and policy on a range of current topics, addressing the themes and life decisions set out above.  It will bring critical perspectives to bear on these issues, including different theories of the state, distributive justice, economics and law, feminist and regulatory theory. 

Points: 12.5

Mode of delivery: Seminars

Contact hours: 2 hours per week

Estimated Total Time Commitment: 120 Hours