Open AccessSTUDENT SUBJECTIVITY AND THE LAW*
Author(s) -
Bruce Lindsay
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
deakin law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1835-9264
pISSN - 1321-3660
DOI - 10.21153/dlr2005vol10no2art296
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , legislation , law , statutory law , higher education , jurisdiction , span (engineering) , sociology , subjectivity , political science , history , engineering , philosophy , civil engineering , archaeology , epistemology
[ This article examines the character of the university student in law in the context of wide-ranging changes to Australian higher education since the 1980s. The legal character of the student derives from two major sources: establishment of a university jurisdiction, primarily under State University Acts, and federal higher education funding legislation. With the rise of market/economic conditions in the sector, the student has become subject to tensions between these sources of law, increasingly resolved in terms of his/her existence as a “consumer” within a commercial university model. Alongside the older statutory university jurisdictions, the standing of the student is both increasingly complex and impoverished .]