Postgraduate - CourseGraduate Diploma in Law

The course enables graduates of law and other disciplines to develop advanced knowledge and skills for legal or professional practice or higher learning, and is a pathway for entry to a masters degree. Graduates will develop advanced professional skills and knowledge of developments in the law, practice and scholarship of one or more areas of law. Students can focus on a specialised area or select from a broad range of electives for professional practice.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 8, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 8, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will have:

• knowledge and understanding of recent developments in areas of law or professional practice
• knowledge of legal research principles and methods appropriate to the discipline
• knowledge and reasoning skills to critically evaluate theory and practice in areas of law
• research skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise information, problems, concepts and theories
• cognitive skills to apply theories, knowledge and skills to different legal areas or to new situations in legal practice or scholarship
• thinking skills to discuss complex and abstract legal ideas and theories
• communication and interpretive skills to justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
• creative skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship
• personal autonomy and accountability.

Students may be eligible for credit of up to 50 per cent of the course (24 points) for previous studies including for approved undergraduate elective law units, or work-based learning at an equivalent level.

This course consists of eight 6-point coursework units.

Students must complete:

• eight level 5 units from the list of masters electiveslist of masters electives (http://www.law.monash.edu.au/future-students/postgraduate/units-overview.html)

Additional course requirements:

• domestic students with a degree in a discipline other than law must complete LAW5080 (Australian legal system) as one of their masters electives
• international students and those with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction must complete LAW5081 (Australian legal process and research) as one of their masters electives.

Further information is available on the faculty website regarding law units and specialisationslaw units and specialisations (http://www.law.monash.edu.au/postgraduate/units-overview.html) and the current postgraduate law timetablecurrent postgraduate law timetable (http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-unit-information/timetables/postgraduate/index.html).

Minimum grade for articulation

A credit average (minimum 60 per cent) is required to articulate to a relevant master's program.

• Commercial law
• Dispute resolution
• Government law and regulatory practice
• Human rights law
• Intellectual property law
• International and comparative law
• Law
• Media and communications law
• Regulatory studies
• Workplace and employment law

Graduate Diploma in Law