With effect from 1996 the BJuris degree will be phased out by accepting no new enrolment in the BJuris/LLB. It will also no longer be a requirement that students who do not already hold a non-law degree must enrol for a combined law degree: in 1996 school leavers can for the first time apply for a four-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) course which is being offered at Monash as an additional option to the combined law degree courses.
In the past school leavers and other applicants who do not hold a degree at the time of admission to the undergraduate law program have been required to enrol for a combined degree, eg Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws; Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws. With effect from 1996 such students will have the option of taking the LLB as a `stand-alone' degree of four years duration. The structure of the LLB course varies for students according to whether they are:
1 a school leaver;
2 a transferee who has completed one full-time year in another faculty or
3 a graduate who has already qualified for an undergraduate degree or completed equivalent tertiary studies before enrolment for the LLB.
The relevant structures are as follows.
As an alternative to taking the LLB course, students may combine with the degree of Bachelor of Laws the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies), Bachelor of Arts (Australian Studies), Bachelor of Arts (European Studies), Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences), Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Business (Management), Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance), Bachelor of Business Systems, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. Any student wishing to take such a combined course must obtain a quota place in both faculties.
In order to complete both degrees within the minimum period, it is necessary to follow particular sequences of non-law and law subjects (see resolution 1 of the faculty board). Students who wish to combine an honours degree in another faculty with a law degree, will be unable to do so in fewer than six years.
The faculty has recently conducted a review of its curriculum including the structure of law studies taken as part of a combined degree. The faculty board has approved a recommendation from the Curriculum Review Committee that during the first three years of a combined course the desired sequence of subjects is:
Year 1
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Year
2
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Year
3
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| School
leavers
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Legal
process; Criminal law
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Torts
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Contract;
Property
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| Internal
transfer - after one year of study
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Legal
process; Criminal law
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Contract;
Property
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A student may qualify for an honours degree at the conclusion of his or her LLB studies. A student will qualify for an honours degree, class I, IIA, IIB or III, where his or her weighted average based on all law subjects attempted at Monash reaches a minimum numerical grade determined by the honours committee.
Any student may seek enrolment in the thesis subject LAW5207 at the end of his or her penultimate year of LLB studies. However, a quota will be applied to this subject and students will be admitted on the basis of their weighted average based on all law subjects attempted at Monash to the end of their penultimate year of LLB studies.
Students wishing to apply for LAW5207 should do so by the first week of November of their penultimate year. Students who have not applied by this time but who, as a result of their penultimate year of study, wish to do so, should apply within a week of the publication of their results in their penultimate year.
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