Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2011 & LAWS5011) in detail

About These Notes

These are the Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2011 & LAWS5011) notes in detail. They are 240 pages long covering the whole FedCon course at USYD. They also include an exam scaffold as a bonus. These are complete Federal Constitutional Law notes which you can use for both LAWS2011 and LAWS5011. They are consisted of lecture slides, lecture contents, case summaries, legislation copied and formatted, important textbook information and information from other notes. Important topics are content are colour coded for easy recognition.

Colour keys:
Black = lecture slides
Blue = notes taken during lectures
Green = information from previous notes
Orange = textbook
Purple = information from online
Red = important information
Blue highlight = legislation
Green highlight = cases
Yellow highlight = important

And the covered topics are:

1. Introduction, Constitutional interpretation, Characterisation
2. Trade and Commerce Power
3. Inconsistency
4. External Affairs
5. Defence Power and Nationhood Power
6. Corporations Power
7. Race power
8. Grants Power and Appropriations
9. Taxation
10. Freedom of interstate trade
11. Excise duties
12. Inter-governmental communities
13. Compulsory Acquisition of Property
14. Implied Freedom of Political Communications
15. Freedom of Religion