Master of Regulatory Studies

Course code: 3393 ~ Course abbreviation: MRegSt ~ Total credit points required: 48 ~ 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time ~ Managing faculty: Law

Study mode and course location

On campus (Melbourne city)

Course description

This innovative masters degree is being offered by the Faculty of Law in conjunction with the faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, and Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. The study of regulation is a relatively new discipline which both links and transcends the boundaries between the disciplines of economics, law, politics, criminology, sociology, psychology, organisational theory and public administration. To date, it has been at the periphery of most of these fields. This course will provide practitioners and scholars in these fields with a core set of ideas, theories and skills to apply to their activities.

Course objectives

The Master of Regulatory Studies provides a broad understanding of regulatory processes and techniques applicable across a range of regulated activities. It provides an understanding of law, economics and public policy for persons working in government in policy development, regulatory enforcement or the development of regulatory legislation, in private industry, law firms and in academia. The course provides current and future practitioners with the appropriate theories and skills to deal with the regulatory challenges that arise in all areas of national and international activity.

Course structure

This course consists of eight coursework units, each worth six points. Candidates who do not have an undergraduate law degree from Australia should consider taking LAW7212 (Australian legal system). A minimum of four units from the list of prescribed core units must be completed. The remaining units must be selected from the list of prescribed electives.

For further information regarding the core units and elective units, refer to the website at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/units/postgrad-specialisation.html.

The units in the specialisation will be those which are specified from time to time by the faculty board on the recommendation of the Postgraduate Studies Committee of the faculty. For further information regarding specialisations, visit http://www.law.monash.edu.au/units/postgrad-specialisation.html.

Course requirements

Core units

LAW7313 Regulatory fundamentals: concepts, constructs and context
LAW7314 The regulatory process
LAW7315 Regulatory methods
LAW7316 Regulating in a globalising world
LAW7317 Evaluating what works in regulation

Elective units*

AFF5011 Issues in risk management
AFF9020 Introduction to risk principles
BTC4180 Financial services regulation
BTF5100 Corporate environmental responsibility
BTX5000 Corporate governance
BTX5050 Asian business law
ECC4700 Restrictive trade practices and competition policy
ENV5050 Environmental governance and citizenship
GRS1005 Fertility regulation
LAW7037 Occupational health and safety
LAW7056 Competition law
LAW7078 Graduate research paper
LAW7083 Law of employee relations
LAW7212 Australian legal system
LAW7214 Utility regulation: law and policy
LAW7258 Consumer protection, self regulation and corporate compliance
LAW7306 Corporate governance and directors duties
LAW7322 Communications law and regulation
LAW7324 Energy law, regulation and policy
LAW7325 Regulation of Australian water resources
LAW7328 Case studies in regulation
LAW7329 The privatising state: reform, regulation and reinvention
LAW7334 European agriculture, food and wine law
LAW7335 Regulating the professions
MCE1213 Regulation and ethics in assisted reproduction technologies

* Not all units may be available in every year

Contact details

Postgraduate program coordinator LLM , telephone +61 3 9641 6206, email graduate@law.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate.