Introduction to the faculty - Faculty of Law

Monash Law currently offers 11 undergraduate programs including a single Bachelor of Laws (LLB), and nine double degrees combined with a range of disciplines. Each of these may be entered at first year, apart from the the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Laws (MBBS/LLB), which is only available to students who have completed one year’s enrolment in the MBBS.  In addition, students completing a Bachelor of Arts in a combined BA/LLB may undertake a combined BA(Hons)/LLB.

The undergraduate program is offered at the University's Clayton campus. The Law School building houses the University's well-known Law Library which provides scholarly resources, study facilities and research skills development programs.

The clinical legal education program operates from the Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service next to the Clayton campus, and the Springvale Monash Legal Service in Springvale.  Other locations from which the faculty provides courses include Monash University Law Chambers in the city (for postgraduate coursework), the Malaysia campus and the Prato Centre in Italy.

The Law School has three research centres committed to advancing research in specialist areas of the law, including human rights, regulation, and justice system innovation. In addition, the Law School has formed a substantial commercial law group to concentrate upon a broad range of commercially relevant research and teaching areas conducted within the faculty. Each centre and the commercial law group include members of the profession and the community on their advisory boards They build on the existing strengths within the Law School that contribute to the development and enhancement of units in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs, as well as making a significant contribution to the research output of the Faculty.

Structure and organisation of the faculty

The Law School has approximately 75 academic staff and a total enrolment of more than 3500 undergraduate and postgraduate students across all year levels.

The Faculty of Law is not divided into departments. Staff and students are collectively involved in the decision-making processes of the faculty through a well-defined committee structure with membership of committees determined either by election or by nomination.

The chief officers of the faculty are the dean, the associate deans, program directors and the faculty general manager. The dean presides over meetings of the faculty executive and faculty board, and is responsible for governance, leadership and development of the Law School.

The faculty general manager is responsible for the overall administration of the faculty including marketing and communications, human resources, budgets, and matters relating to student administration, including admissions, enrolments, examinations, academic progress, course advice and timetabling.

The associate dean (education) is responsible for the governance and oversight of all postgraduate and undergraduate courses, including curriculum, teaching quality and the training and evaluation of academic staff.  Program directors are charged with day-to-day responsibility for academic management of the three main teaching programs: Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Juris Doctor (JD) and (Master of Laws) LLM.

The undergraduate student services manager, together with the faculty student services team, is available to attend to the needs of undergraduate students within the faculty.