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Advanced Dispute Intervention (LAWS90080)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
May
Lecturer
Professor Michelle LeBaron, Coordinator
Email: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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As lawyers’ roles change and complex issues that do not fit within traditional boundaries increasingly arise, new sets of skills and capacities are needed. These skills and mental habits set the most successful negotiators, dispute intervenors and advocates apart from others. Participants in this interactive subject will increase their practical effectiveness as representatives and third parties by learning a series of mental habits and concrete skills to deepen their capacities as change agents. Leveraging new material on neuroscience, empirical studies of negotiation, effective negotiators’ cognitive habits and systems theory, the subject will both complement and challenge longheld assumptions about optimal ways to engage disputes. Via experiential and case study approaches, we will deepen our capacities and skills for complex dispute analysis, creative problem-solving and cultural fluency. The subject will be useful for those working on a wide range of complex issues in a range of contexts including commercial, environmental/public policy and human rights.
Drawing on current interdisciplinary literature and case examples from scholarly and practice sources, students will:
- Learn an original framework for dispute analysis and associated processes to address deep-rooted disputes
- Analyse personal and shared cognitive habits, patterns and biases in relation to dispute engagement, identifying optimal cognitive habits and developing strategies for integrating and applying these new habits
- Critically analyse implicit meanings and cultural values of a continuum of dispute resolution processes as applied in a variety of sectors and settings, including private and public sector organisations and communities, and learn principles of culturally fluent design
- Practice simulated intervention in complex disputes in ways that synthesise and apply creative problem-solving informed by systems theory and neuroscience
- Experience and apply a wide range of ways to increase intuition, improve focus and enhance lawyers’ capacities to accompany or lead change processes
- Learn tools and heuristics to evaluate how and when creative problem-solving approaches can be integrated into existing dispute-engagement systems.
Successful completion of the subject will expand participants’ abilities for complex issue analysis, intervention and follow-up as third parties, participants or advocates in negotiation and dispute resolution processes. Students will learn valuable skills of integrative thinking and creativity through experiential exercises and the final paper.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this subject will:
- Have a sophisticated appreciation of and the know how to apply a range of tools informed by neuroscientific research to effectively analyse disputes and accompany clients in change processes
- Be able to cultivate and practice a set of mental habits conducive to effectively negotiating and engaging legal disputes
- Be able to demonstrate a facility in creative problem-solving in advocacy and dispute processes in ways that improve results
- Have an advanced understanding of a range of Australian dispute resolution processes and provide meaningful input into process design and engagement for private or public clients and organisations
- Be able to Integrate creative approaches to complex legal problems into all aspects of their practice.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Melbourne Law Masters Students: None
JD Students: Successful completion of the below subject:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS50027 | Dispute Resolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Students who have completed the below subject are not permitted to take LAWS90080 Advanced Dispute Intervention:
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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LAWS90021 | Intercultural Dispute Resolution | Not available in 2024 |
12.5 |
Recommended background knowledge
Some prior knowledge of dispute resolution would be useful.
Applicants without legal qualifications should note that subjects are offered in the discipline of law at an advanced graduate level. While every effort will be made to meet the needs of students trained in other fields, concessions will not be made in the general level of instruction or assessment. Most subjects assume the knowledge usually acquired in a degree in law (LLB, JD or equivalent). Applicants should note that admission to some subjects in the Melbourne Law Masters will be dependent upon the individual applicant’s educational background and professional experience.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
8,000 - 10,000 word research paper (100%) (9 August 2017) on a topic approved by the subject coordinator
A minimum of 75% attendance is a hurdle requirement.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- May
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 29-33 hours Total time commitment 150 hours Pre teaching start date 12 April 2017 Teaching period 10 May 2017 to 16 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 31 March 2017 Census date 10 May 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 30 June 2017 Assessment period ends 9 August 2017 May contact information
Lecturer
Professor Michelle LeBaron, Coordinator
Email: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
136-150 hours The pre-teaching period commences four weeks before the subject commencement date. From this time, students are expected to access and review the Reading Guide that will be available from the LMS subject page and the subject materials provided by the subject coordinator, which will be available from Melbourne Law School. Refer to the Reading Guide for confirmation of which resources need to be read and what other preparation is required before the teaching period commences.
Additional delivery details
This subject has a quota of 30 students. Please refer to the Melbourne Law Masters website for further information about the management of subject quotas and waitlists.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Specialist printed materials will be made available free of charge from the Melbourne Law School prior to the pre-teaching period.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Public and International Law Course Graduate Diploma in Construction Law Course Master of Construction Law Course Graduate Diploma in Dispute Resolution Course Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies Course Juris Doctor Course Master of Commercial Law Course Master of Laws - Links to additional information
law.unimelb.edu.au
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
If required, please contact law-admissions@unimelb.edu.au for subject coordinator approval.
Last updated: 3 November 2022