Course code: 0091 + Course abbreviation: BEc/LLB + The following
describes the course structure introduced in 2001 + For details of the old
structure, refer to the 2000 university handbook
The following should be read in conjunction with the degree regulations of the
Bachelor of Economics and the Bachelor of Laws. The double-degree course of
Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws requires the equivalent of
five-and-a-quarter years of full-time study, with an overload of six points in
years four and five. An additional year is required to complete the degree with
honours. Units in the Faculty of Business and Economics are six-point units and
units in the Faculty of Law are 12-point units. Students must complete units to
the value of a minimum of 252 points subject to the following conditions.
(a) 96 points (16 units) must be chosen from units offered by the Faculty of
Business and Economics (Clayton) and must include the following:
(i) Completion of the following compulsory units:
(ii) Completion of two additional second-year-level and
three third-year-level units drawn from one of the departments of Economics
(Clayton) or Econometrics and Business Statistics (Clayton).
(iii) A maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 credit points). In order to
meet this requirement, students are able to undertake the second-year versions
of the appropriate number of compulsory units
(b) In the first three years, students should include from the Faculty of Law
the 12-point units LAW1100 (Legal process), LAW3300 (Criminal law), LAW2100
(Contract) and LAW3400 (Property). (Satisfaction of (a) and (b) allows
completion of the Economics degree).
(c) Students would then follow for the next two years a program comprising the
compulsory units LAW3200 (Constitutional law), LAW3100 (Administrative law) and
LAW2200 (Torts) and elective law units to bring total law units to a total of
156 points.
Students must have the Economics program of study approved by the Commerce and
Economics course director (or the course director's nominee) and the Law
program of study approved by the Law course coordinator (or the course
coordinator's nominee) prior to commencement of the relevant year.
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