Courses by faculty: Faculty of Law

A Monash law degree offers a realistic way to make a difference in the world. This straight-from-school law course will enable you to join the next generation of high achieving lawyers, with the ability to solve complex, demanding and interesting problems. Whatever the field of law, international law, intellectual property, criminal law, human rights law, biotechnology law, tax or family law, lecturers at Monash will challenge you to develop career-ready skills in legal research, analysis and persuasive written and oral communication.

Freshly redesigned to accommodate the needs of the legal profession, the Monash law degree reflects contemporary innovations in legal education. You will learn the key concepts, principles, procedures and methodologies underpinning the Australian legal system, and acquire advanced knowledge of the sources of law, the principal areas of law, and broader but related perspectives including legal ethics and justice. The study of law will enhance your research, analytical and communication skills within legal and related contexts, enabling you to develop a broad range of professional capabilities.

Monash Law will offer you a wide range of options, including the choice of a double degree course. While a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a fine start to your career, you can enhance your career options and professional expertise by combining it with another degree from a range of other disciplines including Arts, Global Studies, Biomedical Science, Commerce, Engineering, Music or Science. The combined degrees can be completed in two years less time than if they were undertaken separately.

In the elective component of the law degree you can choose from a large number of specialist law units, to study overseas and to undertake work-based learning. You will have the opportunity to study at the Monash Prato Centre in Italy, our campus in Malaysia and leading partner universities overseas, exposing you to brilliant minds around the world and enhancing your global perspectives. You can also gain practical work-based experience through the legal clinical programs at our Community Legal Service centres, and through internships, enabling you to understand how theory comes alive in practice.

Graduates who are admitted to legal practice can work as independent barristers or as solicitors in small or large law firms. They can also provide legal advice within law reform agencies, government and non-government organisations and private corporations. A law degree is also an excellent preparation for diverse law-related careers within the judiciary, government, media, business, industry and politics. The Bachelor's degree is a pathway to post-graduate study at the Master's or Doctoral level. Indeed, high achieving students have the opportunity to choose one or two Master's units in their final year, creating an opportunity to complete a Master's degree in less than one year after graduation.

The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is recognised by the Victorian Legal Admissions Board (VLAB) as satisfying the academic requirements for admission to practice in Victoria as an Australian lawyer. But no law degree will enable you to practise law immediately. To do so, you must complete additional practical training as an articled law clerk, or as a candidate for a Diploma in Legal Practice. For further information refer to the Faculty of Law's Professional recognition of coursesProfessional recognition of courses (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/law-03.html) webpage.

Double degrees

The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course can be taken in combination with each of the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedical Science
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
• Bachelor of Global Studies
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science

This will lead to the award of two degrees, the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and the degree awarded by the partner course. Students should refer to the course entry for the partner course in their double degree, for the requirements of the other degree.

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).

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that graduates will be able to demonstrate:

1. Knowledge
• the fundamental areas of legal knowledge, the Australian legal system, and underlying principles and concepts, including international and comparative contexts
• the broader contexts within which legal issues arise
• the principles and values of justice and of ethical practice in lawyers' roles
2. Ethics and professional responsibility
• an advanced understanding of approaches to ethical decision-making
• an ability to recognise and reflect upon ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts and a developing ability to respond to them
• an ability to recognise and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers in promoting justice and in service to the community
• a developing ability to exercise professional judgement
3. Thinking skills
• identify and articulate complex legal issues
• apply legal reasoning and research to generate appropriate responses to legal issues
• engage in critical analysis and make reasoned choices amongst alternatives
• demonstrate cognitive and creative skills in approaching legal issues and generating appropriate responses and developing new understandings
4. Research skills
• the intellectual and practical skills needed to interpret legal conclusions and professional decisions, as well as to identify, research, evaluate and synthesise relevant factual, legal and policy issues
5. Communication and collaboration
• communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive for legal and non-legal audiences, and collaborate effectively
6. Self-management
• learn and work with autonomy, accountability and professionalism and reflect on and assess their own capabilities and performance, and make use of feedback as appropriate to support personal and professional development.

If you have already successfully completed studies in a recognised undergraduate degree at an approved university, you may be eligible for credit for your prior learning in the Bachelor of Laws (Honours), reducing your study time from the normal 4.25 years full-time study. With credit, you may be able to enter the first year of law and be eligible for up to 36 credit points of credit. This means you may be able to complete the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in three and a half years of full-time study (or part-time equivalent).

The maximum amount of credit allowable towards the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) single degree is 102 points.

Admission to practice: Disciplinary reports

Students should note that a domestic applicant applying for admission to practise law in Victoria is required by the Admission Rules 2008 to provide to the Board of Examiners:

• a report from the University disclosing any disciplinary action taken against the student during the course (including any finding under the University Discipline Statute that the student has cheated in an assessment)
• an affidavit stating that the applicant has made full written disclosure of "every matter which a reasonable applicant would consider that the Board of Examiners might regard as not being favourable to the applicant". This may include an incident of academic or general misconduct, even if it did not lead to disciplinary action.

The Board of Examiners will consider these matters in assessing whether the applicant is a "fit and proper person to be admitted to the legal profession".

The Law component of this degree is recognised by the Victorian Legal Admissions Board (VLAB). For further information refer to the Faculty of Law's professional recognition of coursesprofessional recognition of courses (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/law-03.html) webpage.

The course is designed to equip you with basic legal knowledge and skills that are required for admission to legal practice, with the advanced skills required for an Honours degree and an opportunity to develop specialised knowledge in areas of law of your choice. The basic knowledge is imparted through three broad themes: legal methodology and legal practice, public law and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialised knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Part E. Optional non-law study

This will enable you to further broaden and deepen your knowledge of law or broaden your knowledge in another approved field.

Students complete 204 points, comprising 102 points of core law units and 102 points of electives which may include up to 24 points of non-law units outside the Faculty of Law or the 48 points of non-law units required to be cross credited towards a double degree course.

Knowledge is developed through four broad themes: A. Legal methodology and legal practice; B. Public law; C. Private law and D. Extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills. Units are clustered to reflect the main theme but most units also address the first theme, legal practice to some extent.

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3001.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice (24 points)

Students complete:

• LAW1111 Foundations of law
• LAW4303 Litigation and dispute resolution
• LAW4309 Lawyers' ethics in practice
• LAW4323 Evidence

Part B. Public law (30 points)

Students complete:

• LAW1112 Public law and statutory interpretation
• LAW1114 Criminal law 1
• LAW2111 Constitutional law
• LAW4331 Administrative law
• LAW4332 Criminal law and procedure 2

Part C. Private law (48 points)

• LAW1113 Torts
• LAW2101 Contract A
• LAW2102 Contract B
• LAW2112 Property A
• LAW3111 Equity
• LAW3112 Corporations law
• LAW3402 Property B
• LAW4170 Trusts

Part D. Extending expertise: specialist law electives (54, 78 or 102 points)

Students complete between nine and seventeen units from the undergraduate law electives, which must include:

• one commercial law elective*
• one law research elective**

* Commercial law electives: LAW4701, LAW4702, LAW4703, LAW4704

** Law research electives: LAW4801, LAW4802, LAW4803, LAW4805, LAW4806, LAW4807, LAW4327, LAW4328 and LAW4330 and any master's level elective which (i) is approved for undergraduate enrolment, and (ii) has as part of its assessment regime a research assignment with a word limit of 3750 or more.

Law units begin with the prefix LAW and suitable units can be identified using the browse units tool in the current edition of the Handbook.

High achieving students have the opportunity of undertaking a maximum of two master's level electives in the final semester, which can be counted towards a Master of Laws (LLM) degree if they wish to progress to LLM studies.

E. Optional non-law study

If you are completing the single degree course, you may wish to concentrate on your study of law, and take seventeen law elective units, adding either depth or breadth to your specialist knowledge.

Alternatively, if you wish to undertake some non-law study, then you may take up to four non-law units (24 points) in which you are eligible to enrol. Four units is sufficient to complete a minor in a discipline outside law which would be listed on your transcript. When selecting units to comprise a minor you should refer to the lists of minors in the Arts, Science, Commerce, Business and Information Technology comprehensive courses. It is recommended that you seek advice from the student services staff of the faculty offering those units and minors.

If you are completing a double degree course, eight units (48 points) required for the partner degree are credited as electives towards the Law degree.

Law electives

Summer 2015/2016

• LAW4160 Negotiation and conflict resolution
• LAW4173 Research unit A
• LAW4174 Research unit B
• LAW4177 Introduction to family law
• LAW4179 International commercial arbitration
• LAW4214 Supervised research paper
• LAW4243 Tax policy
• LAW4303 Civil procedure
• LAW4306 Sentencing and sanctions
• LAW4309 Lawyers, ethics and society
• LAW4704 Taxation law
• LAW4803 Advanced professional practice
• LAW4806 Jessup moot competition
• LAW4328 Professional practice
• LAW4330 Family law assistance program - professional practice

First Semester

• LAW3111 Equity
• LAW3112 Corporations law
• LAW4119 Contemporary workplace relations law
• LAW4122 International law
• LAW4126 Asian legal systems
• LAW4127 Collective labour rights
• LAW4155 International human rights
• LAW4160 Negotiation and conflict resolution
• LAW4170 Trusts
• LAW4172 Human rights in Australian law
• LAW4173 Research unit A
• LAW4174 Research unit B
• LAW4180 International law of the sea I: Marine resources and management
• LAW4184 International criminal law
• LAW4198 Australian commercial law
• LAW4214 Supervised research paper
• LAW4303 Civil procedure
• LAW4309 Lawyers ethics and society
• LAW4310 Trial practice and advocacy
• LAW4313 International environmental law
• LAW4316 Media law
• LAW4323 Evidence
• LAW4328 Professional practice
• LAW4329 Comparative cyberlaw
• LAW4330 Family law assistance program - professional practice
• LAW4331 Administrative law
• LAW4341 Copyright and designs
• LAW4522 Remedies
• LAW4653 Privacy and surveillance in an information age: Comparative law perspectives
• LAW4655 Comparative issues in patent law
• LAW4668 International investment law
• LAW4702 Competition and consumer law
• LAW4807 Vis arbitration moot
• LAW4808 Law review editorship 1
• LAW4809 Law review editorship 2

Winter

• LAW4160 Negotiation and conflict resolution

Second Semester

• LAW3111 Equity
• LAW3112 Corporations law
• LAW4104 Australian banking law
• LAW4112 Advanced constitutional law
• LAW4122 International law
• LAW4129 Law and discrimination
• LAW4130 Law and social theory
• LAW4132 Law of employment
• LAW4151 Law, gender and feminism
• LAW4158 Indigenous peoples and the law
• LAW4160 Negotiation and conflict resolution
• LAW4163 Parents children and the state
• LAW4164 International refugee law and practice
• LAW4170 Trusts
• LAW4173 Research unit A
• LAW4174 Research unit B
• LAW4193 Biotechnology and the law
• LAW4214 Supervised research paper
• LAW4225 Non adversarial justice
• LAW4227 Criminal investigation law and procedure
• LAW4244 Construction law (dispute resolution)
• LAW4250 The global lawyer
• LAW4251 Advanced copyright: Global law and policy
• LAW4252 Chinese legal institutions and law
• LAW4302 The law of public listed companies
• LAW4303 Civil procedure
• LAW4304 Elements of forensic medicine
• LAW4307 Pirates, terrorists and people smugglers (international law of the sea II)
• LAW4309 Lawyers ethics and society
• LAW4312 Legal issues in medicine
• LAW4322 Advanced taxation law
• LAW4328 Professional practice
• LAW4330 Family law assistance program - professional practice
• LAW4331 Administrative law
• LAW4323 Evidence
• LAW4339 Personal insolvency law
• LAW4340 Sport and the law
• LAW4342 Patents, trade marks and unfair competition
• LAW4537 Public policy, regulation and the law
• LAW4538 Lawyers, literature and cinema
• LAW4702 Competition and consumer law
• LAW4704 Taxation law
• LAW4805 Mooting and advocacy competition
• LAW4808 Law review editorship 1
• LAW4809 Law review editorship 2

Full Year

• LAW4327 Honours thesis

High achieving students enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) single or double degrees have the opportunity of undertaking a maximum of two masters-level electives, which can be counted towards a Master of Laws (LLM) degree if they wish to progress to LLM studies within ten years. Visit the faculty's Master of Laws elective programMaster of Laws elective program (http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-unit-information/master-of-laws-elective-program.html) web page for full details.

While either Law or Arts can be a fine start to your career, you can enhance your options and professional expertise by combining them in this double degree course.

A feature of the Law component is the large number of specialist units available. Coupled with some 40 Arts majors and minors, you can enhance your study of Law with subjects such as bioethics, criminology, international relations, holocaust or genocide studies, or indulge your passion for the performing arts, language, music or theatre.

You will acquire a solid foundation in the concepts, procedures and reasoning underpinning the Australian legal system and the research, analytical and communication skills of the legal profession. You will also be challenged to think critically and creatively, to resist easy answers or simplistic solutions and to develop an ethical and intellectual framework within which to understand what it means to be human, and how this changes over time.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialised knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Arts

A2000 Bachelor of Arts is a comprehensive course, structured in three equal parts. In the double degree course you complete:

Part A. Arts specified study

This will expose you to several Arts disciplines areas of study contributing breadth to your knowledge of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It will also give you the opportunity to learn about several areas of study before finalising your choice of major and minor.

Part B. Arts listed major

This will provide you with a focused program of study that will develop your practical and theoretical skills and knowledge in one Faculty of Arts listed major area of study. You will learn to critically analyse, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of the area of study.

Students must complete 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C, and D for the single degree) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Arts (including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3003.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Arts after 4 or 3 years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A and B the Bachelor of Arts degree.

Advances in biomedical science can have a major impact on the wellbeing of society, but the transition from laboratory to the people it will benefit is a complex journey; this double degree course gives you the tools to do this.

You will gain a solid foundation in the concepts, procedures and reasoning underpinning the Australian legal system and the research, analytical and communication skills of the legal profession. Combine this with an understanding of anatomy, epidemiology and preventative medicine, genetics, immunology, microbiology and pharmacology and you will have the grounding to use your law skills to help solve challenging medical problems.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Biomedical science

M2003 Bachelor of Biomedical Science course is a specialist course that provides an interdisciplinary approach to study of biomedical science, with five central themes: molecular and cellular biology, body systems, infection and immunity, disease and society, and diagnostic and research tools. These themes are interwoven in units throughout the course.

Part A. Molecular and cellular biology

Through these studies you will learn how the cell functions and replicates itself in health and disease, particularly considering the structure of the cell and its evolution, the function of cells, DNA, genes and proteins, and the regulation of metabolism.

Part B. Body systems

This theme addresses the principles of major body systems. You will learn how cells come together to form tissues and organs and how they work together in the body to provide it with its metabolic needs and remove waste products. You will study how structure follows function; homeostasis; the nutritional and GI system; the neural system and senses; endocrine, reproductive and renal systems; and cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Part C. Infection and Immunity

The focus of these studies is the functional immune system of multicellular organisms and the disease states that result from pathogen infection and from autoimmunity. You will learn about molecular genetics and recombinant DNA (both important tools for the study of microbial disease and immunity), inflammation and disease, and infection and infection control.

Part D. Disease and society

In these studies you will learn about disease states that result from abnormal function in various body systems, including the cellular, genetic and molecular causes of the disease, with a focus on mechanisms of disease and patterns of disease and treatment. In studying the basis for human disease, you will also consider the societal and personal impacts of past, present and future diseases and the social, economic and environmental factors that are determinants of health.

Part E. Diagnostic and research tools

These studies address both the molecular and cellular tools, including specialist imaging techniques, that can be used to study and diagnose diseases.

Students must complete 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Biomedical Science (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C, D and E for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3004.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Biomedical Science after 4 or 3 years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Biomedical Science prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the Science requirements in Part A, B, C, D and E for the Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree.

Whether it's working for a multinational or starting your own business, this double degree in law and commerce will give you a powerful kick-start to the future.

You will gain a solid foundation in the Australian legal system and the research, analytical and communication skills of the legal profession. Combine this with a broad foundation in accounting, finance, economics, management and marketing, and a major of your choice and you will have a thorough legal and commercial understanding of business and trade.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Commerce

B2001 Bachelor of Commerce is a comprehensive course, structured in three equal parts. In the double degree course you complete:

Part A. Commerce specified study

This will provide you with a broad foundation for your study of commerce and expose you to several commerce disciplines. This will contribute breadth to your knowledge of commerce and address the graduate course outcomes. It will also give you the opportunity to learn more about each discipline before finalising your choice of major.

Part B. Commerce listed major

This will provide you with a focused program of study that will develop your expertise in one discipline area. You will develop, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of your major area of study.

Students must complete 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Commerce (including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3005.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Commerce after 4 or 3 years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Deepening your understanding of how technology and the law interact, this double degree produces engineers skilled in the legal, corporate and commercial fields. The need for legally trained engineering graduates continues to grow, with opportunities arising in areas such as project management, research and development, consulting and construction law.

The study of law develops problem-solving skills and powers of analysis. It teaches precise and imaginative use of language. The study of engineering develops problem solving skills, systems thinking and technical savvy.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialised knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Engineering

E3001 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through four themes that combine to underpin engineering practice: Fundamentals and foundational skills, Design, Knowledge and applications, and Professional Practice.

Part A. Engineering fundamentals and foundational skills

These will develop your understanding of natural and physical sciences, mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer and information sciences that underpin all engineering disciplines.

Part B. Engineering design

This will develop the engineering techniques, tools and resources for the conduct, design and management of engineering design processes and projects, both in the industrial setting and in the development of research experiments.

Part C. Engineering knowledge and application

This will provide in-depth knowledge of the specific engineering methods of a branch of engineering, and will integrate the specific engineering methods and discipline knowledge into practice. You will develop skills to identify and apply knowledge of contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline. Additionally, your studies will focus on your understanding and application of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary engineering practice in your discipline.

Part D. Professional practice

This will develop your skills in readiness for the engineering workplace. You will develop skills in effective team membership and team leadership, the use and management of commercially relevant data, and the legal responsibilities of engineers. This study will integrate the theme 'Engineering knowledge and application' with your specialist field of engineering.

Students must complete 300 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree) and 144 points from the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C, and D for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3002.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) after 4 years, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 192 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the particular Engineering specialisation.

This course is designed for students who aspire to be leaders in creating social change. Combining global studies with studies in Law will give you the skill set to understand the complex challenges facing cultures and communities around the world and the opportunity to apply your knowledge to affect change.

You will acquire a solid foundation in the concepts, procedures and reasoning underpinning the Australian legal system and the research, analytical and communication skills of the legal profession. With three global studies specialisations (International studies, International relations or Global cultural literacies including a language) you have the opportunity to develop your capabilities and apply them in practical and professional real life contexts.

Through this combination, you will not only think globally but study globally as well with overseas travel a requirement of the course.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Law electives: extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Global studies

A2001 Bachelor of Global Studies is a specialist course that develops through two themes, which will provide you with interdisciplinary approaches to address the key challenges facing the global community and in-depth expertise in your specialised area of study to enable you to effect change.

Part A. Leadership, culture and globalisation

You will compare and contrast a range of solutions in different historical, linguistic, cultural, and geographical settings, focussing especially on developing an understanding of effective leadership across a range of contexts to formulate practical and innovative approaches to global challenges.

Part B. Global studies specialist knowledge

These units will provide in-depth knowledge of the specific facet of global studies that comprises your specialisation, providing you with the practical and theoretical skills and knowledge needed to critically analyse, communicate and apply your disciplinary knowledge.

This course comprises 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Global Studies (including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the single degree).

The requirements for the award of each degree in the double degree courses are the same as when the award is earned through a single course. However, some required units for each degree also count towards the other degree. Students should refer to the course entry for the two partner courses in their double degree for the requirements of each.

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3009.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Global Studies degree after four or three years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours).

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Global Studies prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the Bachelor of Global Studies.

This double degree offers two very distinct areas of study that enable you to combine the expertise, skills and knowledge of a law degree with training in the entertainment and music industries.

You can nourish your creative side, while also testing your capacity for clear thinking by combining music with the study of law. You might focus on one profession above the other, finding work as a professional musician or practising law as a barrister or solicitor, or combine the two in your future choices. You can specialise in music performance, composition, creative music technology or ethnomusicology and musicology. And you can choose from a wide range of law electives to focus your law expertise as you wish.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Music

A2003 Bachelor of Music is a specialist course that develops through the themes of Music specialist study, Music theory and ear training, and Music context study:

Part A. Music specialist study

This sequence of units will provide you with specialist skills to undertake a final examination either through performance with your chief instrument or voice, or through a folio of compositions, creative music technology media or written work. Performance and other applied electives are also available.

Part B. Music theory and ear training

This will integrate the development of aural skills with the theoretical understanding of music through listening, analysis, performance, notation and composition.

Part C. Music context studies

These studies will expose you to the study of music and music making in various cultural, historical, social and professional settings through introductory units and a capstone experience.

Students must complete 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the single degree) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Music (including all the requirements in Part A, B and C for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3006.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Music after 4 or 3 years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Music prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B and C for the Bachelor of Music degree.

With the growth in scientific research and the commercialisation of new technologies, graduates with knowledge in both science and law are increasingly sought after. This double degree course provides practical legal skills and an awareness of the complex interaction between science and society.

In an age of increasing technological advancements, the link between science and the law will only become stronger. This means as a graduate with a double degree in science and law you will have the power to choose which career you follow.

With a choice of twenty-five majors in science and a rich repertoire of law electives, the course can be tailored to meet your individual interests.

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Law

L3001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) course is a specialist course that develops through themes: legal methodology and legal practice; public law; and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units, including a final year project involving intensive research and writing.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialized knowledge and advanced skills: Law electives

In later years of the course, you will be able to choose from a broad range of elective law units. High achieving students may also include one or two Master's units in their final year of study. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals. In addition to public and private law, these include international law, commercial law and human rights law. You will have opportunities to study overseas, and to undertake work-based learning, for example, in our legal clinical program and in local and international internships.

Science

S2000 Bachelor of Science is a comprehensive course, structured in three equal parts. In the double degree course you complete:

Part A. Science specified study

This will provide you with the mathematical or statistical foundation for your study of science and address the nature of science and its communication. It will also expose you to several science disciplines contributing breadth to your understanding of science and giving you the opportunity to learn about several disciplines before finalising your choice of major.

Part B. Science listed major

This will provide you with a focused program of study that will develop your expertise in one discipline area. You will learn to develop, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of the discipline.

Students must complete 252 points, of which 156 points are from the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D) and 96 points from the Bachelor of Science (including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the single degree).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l3007.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Students may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) or a Bachelor of Science after 4 or 3 years respectively, depending on the units studied.

Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 204 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A, B, C and D for the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Science prior to the completion of the double degree must have completed at least 144 points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the Bachelor of Science degree.

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 master's degree. 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 be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of recent developments in selected areas of law or professional practice
2. demonstrate knowledge of legal research principles and methods appropriate to the discipline
3. apply knowledge and reasoning skills to critically evaluate theory and practice in selected areas of law
4. apply research skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise information, problems, concepts and theories
5. apply cognitive skills to apply theories, knowledge and skills to selected areas of law or to new situations in legal practice or scholarship
6. apply thinking skills to discuss complex and abstract legal ideas and theories
7. apply communication and interpretive skills to justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
8. apply creative skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to professional practice or scholarship
9. demonstrate 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.

The course consists of four units. You can choose from the full range of Monash Law's postgraduate program, enabling you to individually tailor your studies to suit your interests and professional needs. You will investigate contemporary legal issues from both international and local perspectives and acquire further legal expertise, adding value in the workplace as well as providing the opportunity to hone your legal knowledge and skills and build on your existing experience.

While this course normally comprises eight coursework units, applicants holding an undergraduate degree in law may be given credit for up to four units for recognised work experience or prior learning.

Depending on your interests and motivation you can chose a program of study in which you will plan and execute a research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability. This study option can provide a pathway to doctoral studies.

The course comprises 48 points of law research and knowledge studies.

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l5001.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Law research and knowledge (48 points)

Students complete 48 points of law studies from the master's Law electivesLaw electives (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/law/index.html) available in the Monash Handbook.

Note:

• 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.

Master's Law list

• LAW5080 Australian legal system*
• LAW5081 Australian legal process and research**
• LAW5083 Extended research
• LAW5084 Minor thesis
• LAW5185 Graduate research paper
• LAW5301 Copyright
• LAW5302 European union law and policy
• LAW5303 Forensic family law
• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5306 Corporate insolvency
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5308 Current issues in evidence
• LAW5309 Public sector employment law
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5311 Takeovers
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5313 Planning law
• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5320 Local government law
• LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
• LAW5322 Superannuation law and practice
• LAW5323 Collective labour rights
• LAW5324 Discrimination law, theory and policy
• LAW5325 Defamation law
• LAW5326 Comparative European legal systems
• LAW5327 International human rights
• LAW5328 International business transactions
• LAW5329 Introduction to European Union law
• LAW5330 International refugee law and practice
• LAW5331 Comparative constitution and rights
• LAW5332 International commercial arbitration
• LAW5333 Comparative criminal law
• LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
• LAW5335 Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
• LAW5336 Law of the internet
• LAW5337 Labour law for corporate lawyers
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5342 Current issues in electronic commerce law
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5346 Design law and practice
• LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
• LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
• LAW5349 Corporate law
• LAW5350 Principles of taxation
• LAW5351 Comparative competition law
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5355 Advocacy: Theory and practice
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
• LAW5362 Regulatory methods
• LAW5363 Regulatory performance: Evaluating what works
• LAW5364 Economic, social and cultural rights and international law
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5368 Regulation of Australian water resources
• LAW5369 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people
• LAW5372 Principles of construction law
• LAW5373 Comparative bills of rights
• LAW5374 Federal labour law
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
• LAW5377 The use of force in international law
• LAW5378 Comparative corporate governance
• LAW5379 Procurement law
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5382 Principles of environmental law
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5385 Corporate finance law
• LAW5386 Health law and human rights
• LAW5387 Non-adversarial family and children's law
• LAW5388 Patenting for commercialisation
• LAW5389 The law of climate change
• LAW5390 Workplace bargaining and agreements law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5393 Law of workforce management
• LAW5394 Banking law
• LAW5395 Arbitration of domestic commercial disputes
• LAW5396 Economics of regulation
• LAW5397 Issues in consumer policy
• LAW5398 International labour law
• LAW5399 Personal property securities
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5402 Innovation: labour, competition and intellectual property law perspectives
• LAW5403 International covenant on civil and political rights
• LAW5404 Genocide and international law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts
• LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW5409 Principles of family law
• LAW5410 Collaborative practice
• LAW5411 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory A
• LAW5412 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory B
• LAW5413 Legal process and professional conduct
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5415 Domestic and international debt capital markets
• LAW5416 Children's rights in Australian law
• LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
• LAW5418 Transitional justice
• LAW5419 The law of financial transactions
• LAW5420 Malaysian and Singaporean constitutional systems
• LAW5421 Managing high conflict personalities in legal disputes
• LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5425 Current issues in copyright
• LAW5426 Regulating business: Enforcement and compliance
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - law theory and policy
• LAW5428 Health law
• LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5433 Victims, law and mass atrocity
• LAW5434 Principles of government law and administration
• LAW5435 Comparative perspectives on crime and punishment
• LAW5436 International and comparative family law
• LAW5437 China's legal system
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5439 Sexual and gender minorities and human rights
• LAW5440 International commercial dispute resolution advocacy
• LAW5441 Australian tax policy
• LAW5442 Racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities and human rights
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5444 Advanced commercial contracts masterclass
• LAW5445 Commercial equity
• LAW5446 Comparative media law
• LAW5447 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW5448 Copyright x: Monash
• LAW5449 Advanced administrative law
• LAW5450 Principles of succession law
• LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
• LAW5452 Private investment law
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice
• LAW5455 Issues in Chinese business law and civil society

Note: Not all units are offered every year.

Minimum grade for articulation

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

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in commercial law and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working in the commercial field. Students can choose from an extensive range of commercial law units including units in corporate law, competition law, banking and finance law, and tax law. The Master of Commercial Law is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in professions and occupations that require a sound grasp of commercial law issues, including as accountants, company administrators and business managers.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in areas of commercial law and the practice of commercial law
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of commercial law or to new situations in practice or scholarship in commercial law
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 credit points) for previous masters level studies in law.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Commercial law knowledge and Part B Extending specialist knowledge electives and research.

Part A: Commercial law knowledge

The studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of commercial law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas commercial law or you can select from across the range of master's law elective units. You will focus on sources of information relevant to commercial law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work in those closely interrelated fields. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into two parts: Part A. Commercial law knowledge (30 points) and Part B Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6001.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Commercial law knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

• LAW5301 Copyright
• LAW5302 European union law and policy
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5306 Corporate insolvency
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5311 Takeovers
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5322 Superannuation law and practice
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
• LAW5350 Principles of taxation
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5385 Corporate finance law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5394 Banking law
• LAW5372 Principles of construction law
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5399 Personal property securities
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts law
• LAW5415 Domestic and international debt capital markets
• LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5437 (The) Chinese legal system: A comparative analysis
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5441 Australian tax policy
• LAW5444 Advanced commercial contracts masterclass
• LAW5452 Private investment law
• LAW5453 Comparative conflict of laws

* LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a. and b. below.

Students complete:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of commercial law electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. the remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in commercial law from the following:*

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

* Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Commercial law electives

Not all units are offered every year.

• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
• LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5342 Current issues in electronic commerce law
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5346 Design law and practice
• LAW5349 Corporate law
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5368 Regulation of Australian water resources
• LAW5369 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW5374 Federal labour law
• LAW5378 Comparative corporate governance
• LAW5379 Procurement law
• LAW5395 Arbitration of domestic commercial disputes
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5426 Regulating business: Enforcement and compliance
• LAW5445 Commercial equity
• LAW5447 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW5448 Copyright x:Monash
• LAW5450 Principles of succession law

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this master's course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in dispute resolution and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working as a dispute resolution practitioner, including as an arbitrator, mediator or other dispute resolution practitioner. It is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in dispute resolution.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that students will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in areas of dispute resolution and the practice of dispute resolution
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of dispute resolution or to new situations in practice or scholarship in dispute resolution
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

The course is structured in 2 parts. Part A. Dispute resolution knowledge and Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research. All students complete Part A and Part B.

Note that if you are eligible for credit for prior studies you may elect not to receive the credit.

Part A. Dispute resolution knowledge

The studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of dispute resolution that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of dispute resolution. You will be able to focus on sources of information relevant to dispute resolution and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work the field. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability

The course comprises 48 points structured into 2 parts: Part A. Extending specialist knowledge and research (30 points) and Part B. Dispute resolution research and knowledge (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6011.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Dispute resolution knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

Dispute resolution in the courts

• LAW5355 Advocacy: Theory and practice
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5453 Comparative conflict of laws

Alternative dispute resolution

• LAW5411 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory A
• LAW5412 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory B
• LAW5410 Collaborative practice
• LAW5421 Managing high conflict personalities in legal disputes
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes

* Note LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research* (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a) and b) below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of Dispute resolution electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in Dispute resolutions from the following:

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

* Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Dispute resolution electives

Not all units are offered every year.

• LAW5303 Forensic family law
• LAW5308 Current issues in evidence
• LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
• LAW5335 Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5387 Non-adversarial family and children's law
• LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW5418 Transitional justice
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
• LAW5440 International commercial dispute resolution advocacy
• LAW5449 Advanced administrative law
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation
• LAW5601 Comparative remedies
• LAW5605 Comparative dispute resolution
• LAW5608 Transnational litigation

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this master's course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in government law and regulatory practice and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working with or within government and regulatory bodies. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in the federal, state or local government sectors or in occupations that require a high level of interaction with government and regulatory bodies.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge of, and recent developments in, the laws and regulatory frameworks relevant to public administration and regulatory practice
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of government law and regulatory practice or to new situations in public administration and regulatory practice or scholarship in government law and regulatory practice
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 credit points) for previous masters level studies in law.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Government law and regulatory practice knowledge and Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research.

Part A: Government law and regulatory practice knowledge

These studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of Government law and regulatory practice law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of Government law and regulatory practice or you can select from across the range of Masters law elective units. You will focus on sources of information relevant to Government law and regulatory practice law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work in those closely interrelated fields. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into two parts: Part A. Government law and regulatory practice knowledge (30 points) and Part B Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6006.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Government law and regulatory practice knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
• LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5372 Principles of construction law
• LAW5382 Principles of environmental law
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
• LAW5428 Health law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5434 Principles of government law and administration
• LAW5449 Advanced administrative law

* LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a. and b. below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of Government law and regulatory practice electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in Government law and regulatory practice law from the following:*

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

* Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Government law and regulatory practice law electives

• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5313 Planning law
• LAW5320 Local government law
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5362 Regulatory methods
• LAW5363 Regulatory performance: evaluating what works.
• LAW5368 Regulation of Australian water resources
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people
• LAW5379 Procurement law
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5386 Health law and human rights
• LAW5389 The law of climate change
• LAW5396 Economics of regulation
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5416 Children's rights in Australian law
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5426 Regulating business: Enforcement and compliance
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - Law, theory and policy
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5453 Comparative conflict of laws
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice

Not all units are offered every year.

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this Masters course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws governing international and domestic human rights develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for work in this diverse field. The extensive range of units enables students to develop and enhance their knowledge across the breadth of human rights law. The Master of Human Rights is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers within the government sector or in development agencies and other local and international human rights-related organisations.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in areas of human rights law and the practice of human rights law
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of human rights law or to new situations in practice or scholarship in human rights law
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 points) for previous masters level studies in law.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Human Rights law knowledge and Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

Part A: Human rights law knowledge

These studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas human rights law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of human rights law or you can select from across the range of master's law elective units. You will focus on sources of information relevant to human rights law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work in those closely interrelated fields. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into two parts: Part A: Human rights law knowledge (30 points) and Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6002.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Human rights law knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

• LAW5303 Forensic family law
• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5377 The use of force in an international law
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5386 Health law and human rights
• LAW5403 International covenant on civil and political rights
• LAW5404 Genocide in international law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts
• LAW5409 Principles of family law
• LAW5416 Children's rights in Australian law
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5428 Health law
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice

* LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

PART B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a. and b. below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of human rights law electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in human rights law from the following:

LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)

LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Human rights electives

Not all units are offered every year.

• LAW5324 Discrimination law, theory and policy
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
• LAW5364 Economic social and cultural rights and international law
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people
• LAW5373 Comparative bills of rights
• LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5410 Collaborative practice
• LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
• LAW5418 Transitional justice
• LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - law theory and policy
• LAW5433 Victims, law and mass atrocity
• LAW5439 Sexual minorities and human rights
• LAW5442 Racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities and human rights
• LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this Masters course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws regulating intellectual property regimes and the broader field of communications, and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for work in this complex and dynamic field. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in intellectual property and communications law, including careers within media organisations and the public sector.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge of, and recent developments in, the laws and regulatory frameworks applicable to intellectual property and communications
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different aspects of the laws applicable to intellectual property and communications or to new situations in practice or scholarship in those fields
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 points) for masters level studies in law.

Monash Law School is accredited by the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys to teach and offer some units that satisfy knowledge requirements for registration as a trade marks or a patent attorney.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Intellectual property and communications law knowledge and Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research.

Part A: Intellectual Property and communications law knowledge

These studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of Intellectual property and communications law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of intellectual property and communications law or you can select from across the range of Masters law elective units. You will focus on sources of information relevant to intellectual property and communications law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support work in this field. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into two parts: Part A Knowledge of Intellectual property and communications law (30 points) and Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6003.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Intellectual property and communications law knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

• LAW5301 Copyright
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
• LAW5325 Defamation law
• LAW5336 Law of the internet
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5448 Copyright X: Monash

* LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a. and b. below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above;
• the list of Intellectual property and communications law electives listed below;
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in Intellectual property and communications law from the following:

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Intellectual property and communications law electives

Not all units are offered every year.

• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5346 Design law and practice
• LAW5369 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5425 Current issues in copyright
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - law theory and policy
• LAW5447 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW5446 Comparative media law

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this Masters course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws and regulatory frameworks governing the ways in which the international community provides assistance to developing countries to improve the economic, political and social quality of life for their people. It also develops the advanced skills and specialist knowledge required for working as a professional in this field. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in international development within government, non-government or not-for-profit sectors.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that students will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in areas of law and international development and the practice of law and international development
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of law and international development law or to new situations in practice or scholarship in international development law
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

The course is structured in 2 parts. Part A. Law and International Development knowledge and Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research.

Part A. Law and International Development knowledge

The studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of international development law. You will be able to focus on sources of information relevant to international development law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work in those closely interrelated fields. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into 2 parts: Part A. Law and International Development knowledge (30 points) and Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6012.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Law and International Development knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below**

Regulation

• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice

International/business and economics law

• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5398 International labour law

Human rights and justice

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights

*LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction

** Not all units are offered every year

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a) and b) below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of Law and International Development or Arts postgraduate electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in Law and International Development from the following:

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Law and International Development electives

• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5364 Economic, social and cultural rights and international law

Arts postgraduate electives

• APG5065 Governing migration: Refugees, borders and development (12 points)
• APG5092 Human rights in global politics (12 points)
• APG5097 Politics of international justice (6 points)
• APG5337 Governance and democratisation (12 points)

Not all units are offered every year.

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this master's course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

In this expert graduate course, law graduates 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. The course enhances the capacity to undertake independent research, and provides options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex legal issues from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Specialisations

Commercial law

The commercial law specialisation provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in commercial law and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working in the commercial field. You can choose from an extensive range of commercial law units including units in corporate law, competition law, banking and finance law, and tax law. The specialisation is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in professions and occupations that require a sound grasp of commercial law issues, including as accountants, company administrators and business managers.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Dispute resolution

The dispute resolution specialisation provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in dispute resolution and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working as a dispute resolution practitioner, including as an arbitrator, mediator or other dispute resolution practitioner. It is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in dispute resolution.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Government law and regulatory practice

The Government law and regulatory practice specialisation provide you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in government law and regulatory practice and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working with or within government and regulatory bodies. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in the federal, state or local government sectors or in occupations that require a high level of interaction with government and regulatory bodies.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Human rights law

The human rights specialisation provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws governing international and domestic human rights, and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for work in this diverse field. The extensive range of units enables students to develop and enhance their knowledge across the breadth of human rights law. The specialisation is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers within the government sector or in development agencies and other local and international human rights-related organisations.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Intellectual property and communications law

The intellectual property and communications specialisation provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws regulating intellectual property regimes and the broader field of communications, and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for work in this complex and dynamic field. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in intellectual property and communications, including careers within media organisations and the public sector.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

International and comparative law

The international and comparative law specialisation provides you with advanced legal knowledge across a broad spectrum of legal issues with international significance. These range across broad issues of public international law, international human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal law and justice, international commercial and comparative law and international trade and finance law, and the impact of international legal frameworks.

Your in-depth studies will enable you to work in non-government organisations (NGOs), government and industry (domestically or internationally) in positions that call for knowledge and understanding of international legal frameworks.

Law and international development

The law and international development specialisation provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in the laws and regulatory frameworks governing the ways in which the international community provides assistance to developing countries to improve the economic, political and social quality of life for their people. It also develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working as a professional in this field. It is suitable for graduates interested developing or enhancing specialist careers in international development within government, non-government or not-for-profit sectors.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

Law studies

In the Law studies specialisation, you will develop advanced professional skills and knowledge of developments in the law, practice and scholarship of one or more areas of law. You can select from a broad range of electives for professional practice. The course enhances the capacity to undertake independent research, and provides options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex legal issues from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The course provides you with a springboard from which to launch or further a career in one of the many fields of law that are open to trained lawyers.

Workplace and employment law

Workplace and employment law provides you with a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in workplace and employment law and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working in workplace and employment relations, including in the public sector, corporate management, trade unions and employer associations. It is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in human resources and the management of workplace and employment relations.

You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances your capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in a range of areas of law and legal practice
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of law or to new situations in legal practice or legal scholarship law
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 points) for previous masters level studies in law. Students who have completed an independent research project in a bachelor of law honours degree may be exempted from the masters research unit but must still complete 48 points of level 5 units.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Extending specialist knowledge electives and Part B: Law research and knowledge.

Part A: Extending specialist knowledge electives

The studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Law research and knowledge

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of law and legal practice. You will be able to focus on sources of information relevant to your specialisation and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points of law studies structured into two parts: Part A: Extending specialist knowledge electives and Part B: Law research and knowledge.

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6004.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Part A: Extending specialist knowledge electives*

Students complete either a) or b) below:

a. 24, 36 or 42 points of study from your chosen specialisation below

b. 24, 36 or 42 points of general law studies from across all lists below

International students and those with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction must complete LAW5081 (Australian legal process and research).

*Note: not all units are offered in each semester or year.

Part B. Law research and knowledge

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. one of the following:

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points), LAW5083 Extended research* (on an approved topic in law) (12 points) or LAW5084 Minor thesis (on an approved topic in law) (24 points) in your specialisation

b. any remaining units to take the overall total to 48 credit points from across all units listed below

* Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research or minor thesis option.

Units are 6 points unless otherwise indicated.

Commercial law

• LAW5301 Copyright
• LAW5302 European union law and policy
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5306 Corporate insolvency
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5311 Takeovers
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
• LAW5322 Superannuation law and practice
• LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5342 Current issues in electronic commerce law
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5346 Design law and practice
• LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
• LAW5349 Corporate law
• LAW5350 Principles of taxation
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5368 Regulation of Australian water resources
• LAW5369 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5372 Principles of construction law
• LAW5374 Federal labour law
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5378 Comparative corporate governance
• LAW5379 Procurement law
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5385 Corporate finance law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5394 Banking law
• LAW5395 Arbitration of domestic commercial disputes
• LAW5399 Personal property securities
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts law
• LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW5415 Domestic and international debt capital markets
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5426 Regulating business: Enforcement and compliance
• LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5437 China's legal system
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5441 Australian tax policy
• LAW5444 Advanced commercial contracts masterclass
• LAW5445 Commercial equity
• LAW5447 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW5448 Copyright x: Monash
• LAW5450 Principles of succession law
• LAW5452 Private investment law
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation
• LAW5455 Issues in Chinese business law and civil society

Dispute resolution

• LAW5308 Current issues in evidence
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5355 Advocacy: Theory and practice
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5387 Non-adversarial family and children's law
• LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW5410 Collaborative practice
• LAW5411 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory A
• LAW5412 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory B
• LAW5421 Managing high conflict personalities in legal disputes
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5453 Comparative conflict of laws
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation

Government law and regulatory practice

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5313 Planning law
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5320 Local government law
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: law, policy and governance
• LAW5347 Consumer protection: Regulation and compliance
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
• LAW5362 Regulatory methods
• LAW5363 Regulatory performance: evaluating what works.
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5368 Regulation of Australian water resources
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people
• LAW5372 Principles of construction law
• LAW5379 Procurement law
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5382 Principles of environmental law
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5386 Health law and human rights
• LAW5389 The law of climate change
• LAW5396 Economics of regulation
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5416 Children's rights in Australian law
• LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5426 Regulating business: Enforcement and compliance
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - Law, theory and policy
• LAW5428 Health law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5434 Principles of government law and administration
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5449 Advanced administrative law
• LAW5450 Principles of succession law
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice

Human rights law

• LAW5303 Forensic family law
• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5310 Sentencing
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5324 Discrimination law, theory and policy
• LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5364 Economic social and cultural rights and international law
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people
• LAW5373 Comparative bills of rights
• LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
• LAW5377 The use of force in an international law
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5386 Health law and human rights
• LAW5403 International covenant on civil and political rights
• LAW5404 Genocide in international law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts
• LAW5409 Principles of family law
• LAW5410 Collaborative practice
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5416 Children's rights in Australian law
• LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
• LAW5418 Transitional justice
• LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - law theory and policy
• LAW5428 Health law
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5433 Victims, law and mass atrocity
• LAW5439 Sexual minorities and human rights
• LAW5442 Racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities and human rights
• LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice

Intellectual property and communications law

• LAW5301 Copyright
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
• LAW5325 Defamation law
• LAW5336 Law of the internet
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5341 Trade mark practice
• LAW5346 Design law and practice
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5369 World Trade Organisation (WTO) law
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5425 Current issues in copyright
• LAW5427 Freedom of speech - law theory and policy
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
• LAW5446 Comparative media law
• LAW5447 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW5448 Copyright X: Monash

International and comparative law

• LAW5302 European union law and policy
• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5318 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW5336 Law of the internet
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
• LAW5353 Cybercrime
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5364 Economic social and cultural rights and international law
• LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW5369 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW5371 Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vunerable people
• LAW5373 Comparative bills of rights
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
• LAW5377 The use of force in international law
• LAW5378 Comparative corporate governance
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5398 International labour law
• LAW5400 International trade mark law
• LAW5403 International covenant on civil and political rights
• LAW5414 Public international law
• LAW5415 Domestic and international debt capital markets
• LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
• LAW5418 Transitional justice
• LAW5423 Private international law in commercial disputes
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5431 International entertainment law
• LAW5433 Victims, law and mass atrocity
• LAW5437 China's legal system
• LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
• LAW5439 Sexual minorities and human rights
• LAW5442 Racial, ethnic and linguistic minorities and human rights
• LAW5446 Comparative media law
• LAW5448 Copyright x: Monash
• LAW5452 Private investment law
• LAW5453 Comparative international litigation
• LAW5454 Climate governance and citizen justice
• LAW5455 Issues in Chinese business law and civil society

Law and international development

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5305 International trade law
• LAW5314 International environmental law
• LAW5338 International humanitarian law
• LAW5345 Human rights, business and the global economy
• LAW5354 International criminal justice
• LAW5359 International human rights law and women
• LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
• LAW5364 Economic, social and cultural rights and international law
• LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW5380 International human rights law and development
• LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
• LAW5384 International investment law
• LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW5398 International labour law

Workplace and employment law

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5324 Discrimination law, theory and policy
• LAW5344 Negotiation and mediation skills
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5374 Federal labour law
• LAW5390 Workplace bargaining and agreements law
• LAW5393 Law of workforce management
• LAW5398 International labour law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts law
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5443 Language, communication and the legal process

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research or minor thesis option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students with an AQF8 Level qualification In law may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this master's course:

• Graduate Diploma in Law after successful completion of 24 credit points of study at level 4 or above in this master's course.

This is a professional entry master's degree which satisfies the academic requirements for admission to practice as an Australian lawyer. It is also a preparation for diverse careers in and beyond the law, and offers a pathway to doctoral studies. The course provides advanced and integrated knowledge of the principal areas of legal practice, legal concepts and broader perspectives about the law. It develops advanced professional skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, research, communication, collaboration, self-management, ethical awareness and professional judgment. The skills and knowledge learned in the course are applied in a later year professional project. The elective component gives flexibility to choose from a wide range of specialist units, to study overseas, and to undertake clinical learning.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

1. Graduates will demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of a complex body of knowledge that includes:
• the fundamental areas of legal knowledge, the Australian legal system, and underlying principles and concepts, including international and comparative contexts
• the broader contexts within which legal issues arise
• the principles and values of justice and of ethical practice in lawyers' roles
• contemporary developments in law, and its professional practice.
2. Graduates will have:
• an advanced and integrated understanding of approaches to ethical decision-making
• an ability to recognise and reflect upon, and a developing ability to respond to, ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts
• an ability to recognise and reflect upon the professional responsibilities of lawyers in promoting justice and in service to the community
• a developing ability to exercise professional judgement.
3. Graduates will:
• identify and articulate complex legal issues
• apply legal reasoning and research to generate appropriate jurisprudential and practical responses to legal issues
• engage in critical analysis and make reasoned and appropriate choices amongst alternatives
• demonstrate sophisticated cognitive and creative skills in approaching legal issues and generating appropriate responses and developing new understandings.
4. Graduates will demonstrate the intellectual and practical skills needed to:
• justify and interpret theoretical propositions, legal methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions
• identify, research, evaluate and synthesise relevant factual, legal and policy issues.
5. Graduates will:
• communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive for legal and non-legal audiences
• collaborate effectively.
6. Graduates will:
• learn and work with a high level of autonomy, accountability and professionalism
• reflect on and assess their own capabilities and performance
• make use of feedback to support personal and professional development.

Students may be eligible for credit or exemptions to a maximum of 48 points for previous studies in law at an equivalent level.

Admission to practice: Disciplinary reports

Warning to students of consequences of cheating or general misconduct

Students should note that a domestic applicant applying for admission to practise law in Victoria is required by the Admission Rules 2008 to provide to the Board of Examiners:

• a report from the University disclosing any disciplinary action taken against the student during the course (including any finding under the University Discipline Statute that the student has cheated in an assessment)
• an affidavit stating that the applicant has made full written disclosure of "every matter which a reasonable applicant would consider that the Board of Examiners might regard as not being favourable to the applicant". This may include an incident of academic or general misconduct, even if it did not lead to disciplinary action.

The Board of Examiners will consider these matters in assessing whether the applicant is a 'fit and proper person to be admitted to the legal profession'.

The course is designed to equip you with basic legal knowledge and skills that are required for admission to legal practice, with the opportunity to develop specialised knowledge in areas of law of your choice. The basic knowledge is imparted through three broad themes: legal methodology and legal practice, public law and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice

This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.

Part B. Public law

Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by 'the rule of law'. It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.

Part C. Private law

Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals. It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called 'torts') such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.

Part D. Extending specialised knowledge and advanced skills

In these studies you will complete at least one commercial law unit and a professional project and will also add to your expertise by choosing from a broad range of elective law units. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals.

The course comprises 144 points structured into four parts: Part A. Foundation law studies (96 points) and Part B. Masters level electives (48 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6005.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are six credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice (24 points)

Students complete:

• LAW5000 Australian legal reasoning and methods
• LAW5013 Principles of litigation and dispute resolution
• LAW5015 Ethics in legal practice
• LAW5012 Principles of evidence

Part B. Public law (30 points)

Students complete:

• LAW5005 Principles of contract law B
• LAW5004 Principles of public law and statutory interpretation
• LAW5007 Principles of constitutional law
• LAW5014 Principles of administrative law
• LAW5001 Principles of criminal law and procedure

Part C. Private law (42 points)

Students complete:

• LAW5003 Principles of torts
• LAW5002 Principles of contract Law A
• LAW5006 Principles of property law
• LAW5008 Principles of equity
• LAW5011 Principles of company law
• LAW5009 Advanced property law
• LAW5010 Principles of trusts

Part D. Extending expertise: specialist law electives

Students complete 48 points of elective units which must include:

• one commercial law elective chosen from the list below
• one profession project unit chosen from the list below

the remaining units (taking the total credit points to 144 can be selected from level 5 units offered by the Faculty of Lawoffered by the Faculty of Law (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byfaculty-law.html).

Commercial law electives

Students complete at least one commercial law elective (6 points) chosen from the list below:

• LAW5350 Principles of taxation
• LAW5340 Intellectual property
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5315 Commercial dispute resolution

Professional electives

Students complete at least one professional elective chosen from the list below:

• LAW4803 Clinical externship
• LAW5050 Professional practice (JD) (12 points)*
• LAW5052 Professional project
• LAW5055 Vis arbitration moot
• LAW5056 Jessup moot competition
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)**
• LAW5355 Advocacy theory and practice

* Note, this unit has a prerequisite which is achievement of at least twelve units or 72 credit points towards the Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) to include: LAW5001, LAW5002, LAW5005 and LAW5003 or equivalent.

** Note, this unit requires that students have completed four elective units and obtained 70per cent or above in each of the units. A quota applies.

Students can choose to complete a research thesis (24 points) that will provide a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students who have completed the Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) have the opportunity of undertaking a an expert Master of Laws (LLM) degree within 10 years of completion of the JD, with up to 24 points of credit counted towards the LLM.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements for that award during their enrolment in the master's course:

• Graduate Diploma in Law (L5001) after successful completion of 48 points of study with a minimum of 36 credit points at level 4 or above.

This expert graduate course provides a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in workplace and employment law and develops the advanced professional skills and specialist knowledge required for working in workplace and employment relations, including in the public sector, corporate management, trade unions and employer associations. It is suitable for graduates interested in developing or enhancing specialist careers in human resources and the management of workplace and employment relations.

Students investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex issues relevant to the field from theoretical, international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The course enhances students' capacity to undertake independent research, and includes options for a pathway to doctoral studies.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Graduates of the course will be able to:

1. demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and recent developments in areas of workplace and employment law and the practice of workplace and employment law
2. apply theories, knowledge and skills to different areas of workplace and employment law or to new situations in practice or scholarship in workplace and employment law
3. design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise about developments that contribute to global professional practice or scholarship
4. explain and justify arguments, methods, and conclusions to legal and lay audiences
5. apply with integrity appropriate research principles and methods to plan, carry out and report on an original project
6. demonstrate high level personal autonomy and judgment.

Students may be eligible for credit for up to 50 per cent of the course (24 points) for previous masters level studies in law.

The course is structured in two parts. Part A: Workplace and Employment law knowledge and Part B Extending specialist knowledge electives and research.

Part A: Workplace and Employment law knowledge

These studies enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of workplace and employment law that suit your interests, skills and career goals.

Part B: Extending specialist knowledge electives and research

These studies will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a wide range of areas of workplace and employment law or you can select from across the range of Masters law elective units. You will focus on sources of information relevant to workplace and employment law and the application of research methods and specialist discipline knowledge and skills necessary to support law-related work in those closely interrelated fields. Depending on your interests and motivation, you can choose a program of study in which you plan and execute a major research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

The course comprises 48 points structured into two parts: Part A Workplace and employment law knowledge (30 points) and Part B Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points).

The course progression mapcourse progression map (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2016handbooks/maps/map-l6007.pdf) will assist you to plan to meet the course requirements, and guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Part A. Workplace and employment law knowledge (30 points)

Students complete a. and b. below:

a. the following unit:

• LAW5080 Australian legal system or LAW5081 Australian legal process and research*

b. a minimum of four units chosen from the units listed below:**

• LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
• LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
• LAW5312 Competition law
• LAW5319 Law of employee relations
• LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
• LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW5390 Workplace bargaining and agreements law
• LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW5374 Federal labour law
• LAW5393 Law of workforce management
• LAW5398 International labour law
• LAW5407 Current issues in torts law
• LAW5424 Human trafficking and the law
• LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
• LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation

* Note LAW5081 is required for all international students and those students with a law degree from a non-Australian jurisdiction.

** Not all units are offered every year.

Part B. Extending specialist knowledge electives and research (18 points)

Students complete 18 points across a. and b. below:

a. 6 or 12 points of elective law units. These can be taken from:

• Part A above
• the list of workplace and employment law electives listed below
• any unit from the General list of Level 5 law units, excluding those only offered in L6005 Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)

b. The remaining 6 or 12 points of research studies in workplace and employment law from the following:

• LAW5082 Masters research (6 points)
• LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)

Note: Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take the extended research option.

Workplace and employment law electives

Not all units are offered every year.

• LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW5324 Discrimination law, theory and policy
• LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
• LAW5360 Advanced conflict resolution skills

Students taking the course as a pathway to doctoral studies are advised to take an extended research or a minor thesis option which is a pathway to a higher degree by research.

Students may exit this course early and apply to graduate with the following award, provided they have satisfied the requirements indicated for that award during their enrolment in this master's course:

• Graduate Certificate in Law after successful completion of 24 points of study with a minimum of 18 credit points at level 4 or above.

Enrolment in a Master of Philosophy involves the independent investigation of a research problem that has been formulated by the student. It is expected that the research undertaken will make a contribution to the discipline in which the student is enrolled by applying, clarifying, critiquing or interpreting that knowledge. Students are supported by a minimum of two supervisors throughout their enrolment.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Successful completion of the program will signify that the student has successfully completed a course of research training and has satisfied the examiners that they can carry out a research project and critically analyse the results.

Conditions of enrolment

Students are to refer to the Handbook for Research Master's DegreesHandbook for Research Master's Degrees (http://www.monash.edu/migr/research-degrees/handbook/masters) for all policies and procedures relating to their enrolment.

This course consists of a research and thesis component.

Areas of research

This course may be undertaken in any area of research offered by the Faculty of Law. Refer to the faculty's Staff expertiseStaff expertise (http://www.monash.edu/law/staff-contact-us/hdr/staff-expertise-1) webpage.

Students must, in consultation with and under the direct supervision of a member/s of the academic staff:

(1.) carry out a program of research on an agreed topic approved by the faculty in the student's chosen discipline for a specified period, including attending and/or presenting at seminars and other related activities as indicated by the faculty; and

(2.) submit for assessment a thesis of not more than 35,000 words on the program of research which meets the requirements of the examiners. Submission of the thesis based on or partially based on conjointly published or unpublished workconjointly published or unpublished work (http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/examiners/publication/) may be permitted.

Students are required to undertake regular progress milestones to support them in conducting research of an appropriate quality, originality and depth as required by their course of study, in accordance with the Graduate Research Progress Management policyGraduate Research Progress Management policy (http://policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/research/mrgs/grad-research-progress-mgmt-policy.html) and supporting procedures.

Students may apply to transfer to a PhD after a defined period (usually 9-12 months enrolment, full-time or equivalent), provided that satisfactory progress has been made and certain conditions are met.

The Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) is a professional doctorate program that enables students to complete a research thesis together with a selection of coursework units in a specific area of interest. The program is suited to legal professionals seeking to enhance their expertise through advanced coursework and research. The coursework units allow students to develop some expertise in the area in which they intend to pursue their research before commencing work on their thesis.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 10, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Successful completion of the program will signify that the holder has completed a course of postgraduate training in research under proper academic supervision and has submitted a thesis that the examiners have declared to be a significant contribution to knowledge and which demonstrates the student's capacity to carry out independent original research.

In some cases credit may be given for Master of Laws units completed at another Australian law school. Applications for credit will be considered in accordance with the University's Credit PolicyCredit Policy (http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/academic/education/admissions/credit-policy.html).

Conditions of enrolment

Students are to refer to the Handbook for Research Master's DegreesHandbook for Research Master's Degrees (http://www.monash.edu/migr/research-degrees/handbook/masters) for all policies and procedures relating to their enrolment.

This course consists of coursework study (25 per cent) and a research and thesis component (75 per cent).

Coursework component

Students must complete:

• LAW6300 Doctor of Juridical Science seminar
• four coursework units from the Master of Laws programMaster of Laws program (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/aos/law/)

A minimum average level of distinction (70 per cent) in the four coursework units must be achieved before students can be enrolled in LAW6300. A student's assessment in the coursework component is conducted in accordance with the University's Assessment in Coursework Units PolicyAssessment in Coursework Units Policy (http://policy.monash.edu.au/policy-bank/academic/education/assessment/assessment-in-coursework-units-policy.html) and supporting procedures. Students who do not meet all requirements of the coursework component are not able to proceed to the research component. There is no alternate or lower-level exit for this course . However students who have completed four coursework units in this course can apply to undertake any Monash Master of Laws coursework course and transfer the credit to that course.

Research component

Students must, in consultation with and under the direct supervision of a member/s of the academic staff:

(a.) carry out a program of research on an agreed topic approved by the faculty in the student's chosen discipline for a specified period, including attending and/or presenting at seminars and other related activities as indicated by the faculty

(b.) submit for assessment a thesis of not more than 50,000 words on the program of research which meets the requirements of the examiners. Submission of the thesis based on or partially based on conjointly published or unpublished workconjointly published or unpublished work (http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/examiners/publication/) may be permitted.

Students are required to undertake regular progress milestones to support them in conducting research of an appropriate quality, originality and depth as required by their course of study, in accordance with the Graduate Research Progress Management policyGraduate Research Progress Management policy (http://policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/research/mrgs/grad-research-progress-mgmt-policy.html) and supporting procedures.

Enrolment in a Doctor of Philosophy involves the independent investigation of a research problem that has been formulated by the student. It is expected that the research undertaken will make a significant contribution to the discipline in which the student is enrolled. Doctoral students are supported by a minimum of two supervisors throughout their enrolment.

Students are also required to complete compulsory coursework or training activities as part of the Monash doctoral programMonash doctoral program (http://www.monash.edu/migr/future-students/phd). These discipline-specific and professional development activities are designed to impart skills and knowledge that will assist students to conduct their research.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 3 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 10, the Bologna Cycle 3 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Successful completion of the program will signify that the holder has completed a course of postgraduate training in research under proper academic supervision and has submitted a thesis that the examiners have declared to be a significant contribution to knowledge and which demonstrates the student's capacity to carry out independent original research.

Conditions of enrolment

Students are to refer to the Handbook for Doctoral DegreesHandbook for Doctoral Degrees (http://www.monash.edu/migr/faqs-and-resources/content) for all policies and procedures relating to their enrolment.

This course consists of:

• a research and thesis component
• a professional development training component.

Areas of research

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program may be undertaken in any area of research offered by the Faculty of Law. Refer to the faculty's Staff expertiseStaff expertise (http://www.monash.edu/law/staff-contact-us/hdr/staff-expertise-1) webpage.

Students must, in consultation with and under the direct supervision of a member/s of the academic staff:

(1.) carry out a program of research on an agreed topic approved by the faculty in the student's chosen discipline for a specified period, including attending and/or presenting at seminars and other related activities as indicated by the faculty

(2.) submit for assessment a thesis of not more than 80,000 words on the program of research which meets the requirements of the examiners. Submission of the thesis based on or partially based on conjointly published or unpublished workconjointly published or unpublished work (http://www.monash.edu.au/migr/examiners/publication/) may be permitted.

(3.) satisfactorily complete a program of professional development training as outlined under 'PhD programs' below.

Students are required to undertake regular progress milestones to support them in conducting research of an appropriate quality, originality and depth as required by their course of study, in accordance with the Graduate Research Progress Management policyGraduate Research Progress Management policy (http://policy.monash.edu/policy-bank/academic/research/mrgs/grad-research-progress-mgmt-policy.html) and supporting procedures.

PhD programs

• Law PhD program