Master of Laws (LLM) program
A candidate proceeding to the degree of LLM by coursework and minor
thesis is required to complete four approved subjects and a minor thesis of
approximately 25,000 words. A candidate proceeding to the LLM by coursework
must complete six approved subjects.
The faculty endeavours to offer a broad range of graduate subjects each year.
The following subjects have been approved for the purpose of the coursework
component of the LLM program.
- Administrative appeals
- Administration of criminal Justice
- Advanced private international law
- Australia in the international legal order
- Business finance: law and practice
- Commercial alternative dispute resolutions
- Commercial arbitration
- Commercial equity
- Commercial law of the United States
- Commercial leases
- Comparative Australian and United States taxation law
- Comparative family law
- Comparative labour relations law
- Comparative tax law reform
- Confiscation of the proceeds of crime
- Contemporary legal thought
- Contemporaty problems in the administration of criminal justice
- Copyright
- Corporate Insolvency
- Creditors and family law
- Current issues in air transport law
- Current issues in civil procedure
- Current issues in evidence
- Current problems in family law
- Current problems in taxation
- Defamation and freedom of speech
- Drugs and the law
- Electronic banking law
- Economic analysis of current issues in commercial law
- Economic torts
- Employee share ownership plans
- European union law
- Family property
- Forensic family law
- Government and information
- Government regulation of international trade
- Graduate research paper
- International air law
- International aspects of intellectual property
- International banking law
- International commercial arbitration
- International human rights
- International sale of goods
- International taxation
- International trade law
- Judicial law-making and legal theory
- Law and economics
- Law of employee relations
- Law of the sea
- Law, the environment and the policy process
- Legislative and judicial refinement of the income tax base
- Local government law
- Maritime law
- Migration law
- Modern criminal justice
- Native title and indigenous land rights
- Occupational health and safety
- Pacific comparative law
- Patents, trade secrets and allied rights
- Planning law
- Principles of corporate insolvency law
- Principles of drafting in family law
- Psychiatry, psychology and law
- Public sector employment law
- Research methods
- Rights arising out of de facto cohabitation
- Secured finance and related transactions
- Securities regulation
- Sentencing
- Stamp duties
- Superannuation law and practice
- Takeovers
- Tax avoidance - legislative and judicial responses
- Taxation Commissioner's discretionary powers
- Taxation in the European Community
- Taxation of capital gains
- Taxation of corporations and shareholders
- Taxation of unincorporated enterprises
- Theories of justice
- Trade practices
- Trade marks and commercial designations
The faculty reserves the
right not to offer in a particular year any of the above subjects if it appears
there are insufficient enrolments or if there are other overriding
considerations.
Enrolment quotas may have to be imposed in respect of all or some of the above
subjects.
Candidates proceeding to the LLM degree by major thesis must complete a
thesis of about 70,000 words at a standard comparable to legal writings found
in a learned law journal.
Candidates proceeding to the LLM degree by minor thesis must complete a thesis
of about 25,000 words at a standard comparable to legal writings found in a
learned law journal.
Candidates are required to submit a completed thesis proposal form to the
graduate studies office. The prescribed proposal form is available from the
graduate studies office upon request.
Candidates are encouraged to discuss proposals with members of academic staff.
If required, the subdean will assist in recommending an appropriate member of
staff.
On receipt of the completed thesis proposal form the subdean will submit it to
the Graduate Studies Committee for approval of the topic and the appointment of
a supervisor. In approving the research topic the Graduate Studies Committee
has regard to the adequacy of the candidate's preparation for the research
project and the facilities available in the faculty for the supervision and
carrying out of the research.
The requirements which must be met with respect to the certification of theses
prior to their submission for examination are set out in sections 47 and 48 of
the faculty's regulations.
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