This unit examines important ways in which language and linguistics (the scientific study of language) is relevant to law and to the workings of the legal system. These include the nature of legal language and meaning interpretation in the legal process, the dynamics of language use in court and police interviews, sociolinguistic disadvantage before the law, forensic applications of linguistics in speaker and author identification, and translating and interpreting in legal contexts, including trials, police interviews and native title hearings. The unit is supported by a variety of online tools including online assessment. Web access is essential.