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Course structure
Students must complete eight subjects in total.
Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete Fundamentals of the Common Law, as well as at least six subjects from the prescribed list (including the compulsory subject International Law and Development). Students may choose an eighth subject from those available in the Melbourne Law Masters.
Students with a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete at least six subjects from the prescribed list (including the compulsory subject International Law and Development). Students may choose their final two subjects from those available in the Melbourne Law Masters (excluding Fundamentals of the Common Law).
Subject options
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70382 | Business and Human Rights | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90009 | Chinese Law and Commerce | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70293 | Climate Change Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70230 | Commercial Law in Asia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70009 | Comparative Corporate Tax | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90057 | Comparative Health Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90058 | Comparative Human Rights Law | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70353 | Comparative International Tax | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70016 | Comparative Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70269 | Constitution Making | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70351 | Contemporary Chinese Law and Practice | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70111 | Debt Capital Markets | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90042 | Development, Environment and Int'l Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90018 | Development, Labour and Human Rights | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90088 | Disaster Law and Climate Adaptation | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70141 | Energy Regulation and the Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90089 | Environmental Compliance and Enforcement | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70100 | Environmental Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70446 | Equality Law Internationally | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70162 | Fiscal Reform and Development | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70217 | Fundamentals of the Common Law |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
March (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70389 | Global Commercial Contract Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70448 | Global Constitutionalism | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70013 | Global Financial Order | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90063 | Global Governance | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70151 | Global Health Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90092 | Global Health, Trade and Investment Law | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70421 | Health Law and Emerging Technologies | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70420 | Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70422 | Human Rights and Armed Conflict | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70452 | Human Rights and Climate Change | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90044 | Human Rights and Economic Globalisation | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70091 | Human Rights and Terrorism | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90045 | Human Rights and Universality | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70360 | Human Rights Beyond Borders | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70114 | Human Rights of Groups | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70171 | Human Rights, Women and Development | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70454 | Human Rights: From Morality to Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90021 | Intercultural Dispute Resolution | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70392 | International Business Transactions | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70121 | International Commercial Arbitration |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70033 | International Criminal Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70303 | International Criminal Law and Justice | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70308 | International Economic Law | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70218 | International Employment Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70219 | International Environmental Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70110 | International Financial System | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70264 | International Human Rights Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70234 | International Humanitarian Law | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70304 | Internat Investment Law and Arbitration | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70242 | Internat.Issues in Intellectual Property | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70120 | International Law and Children's Rights | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70093 | International Law and Development | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70369 | International Law and Ethics | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70455 | International Law and Relations | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70078 | International Law and the Use of Force | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70067 | International Legal Internship |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70365 | International Migration Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70423 | International Mineral Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70161 | International Petroleum Transactions | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70366 | International Refugee Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70028 | International Trade Law | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70457 | Investment and Risk in Southeast Asia | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70105 | Islamic Law and Politics in Asia | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70397 | Latin American Constitutionalisms | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70367 | Law of Democracy | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70456 | Law of Treaties | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70425 | Money, Law and Politics | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70468 | Negotiation Skills |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
February (On Campus - Parkville)
May (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70349 | Planning and Development Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70313 | Post-Conflict State-Building | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70430 | Poverty, Human Rights and Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70173 | Principles of International Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70327 | Prosecuting the War on Terror | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90049 | Reimagining Human Rights Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90106 | Religion, State and Multiculturalism | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70403 | Statehood in International Law | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90052 | Trade and Investment Law in China | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70122 | Trade, Human Rights and Development | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS90053 | Transnat'l Corporations: Rights & Duties | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
LAWS70118 | Women, War and Peacebuilding | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70322 | WTO Law and Dispute Settlement | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70453 | Human Rights and Culture | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90051 | The Practice of Commercial Arbitration | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70451 | Health Law and Human Rights | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70169 | Developing Countries and the WTO | Not available in 2017 | 12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020