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Graduate Diploma in International Law (323AA) // Course structure
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Melbourne Law School
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Future students:
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Course structure
Students must complete 50 credit points from the prescribed lists.
International Law is compulsory for most students and, if possible, should be completed before other subjects. Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction or any prior legal studies or experience are also expected to complete the two-day preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions.
Note: Most subjects in the MLM program are 12.5 credit points each. Check individual subject handbook entries for confirmation.
Subject options
General Public International Law
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70407 | Australians Detained Abroad | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90154 | Cities, Law and Global Governance | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90127 | Comparative Indigenous Rights | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90149 | Corruption: A Global Approach | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90019 | Domestic Courts and International Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70033 | International Criminal Law | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70303 | International Criminal Law and Justice | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90022 | International Dispute Settlement | June (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70234 | International Humanitarian Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70173 | International Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS90177 | International Law and Armed Violence | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70093 | International Law and Development | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70369 | International Law and Ethics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70344 | International Law and Israel-Palestine | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90023 | International Law and Politics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70455 | International Law and Relations | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70078 | International Law and the Use of Force | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90128 | International Law: Uncensored History | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90047 | Law of International Organisations | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70398 | Law of the Sea | October (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70456 | Law of Treaties | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90129 | Law, Science and Technology | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90185 | Migration, Diasporas and the Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90155 | NGOs and International Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70429 | Philosophy of International Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70313 | Post-Conflict State-Building | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70327 | Prosecuting the War on Terror | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90120 | Public Health Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90063 | Regulating Global Markets | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70403 | Statehood in International Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90150 | States: When, Why and How they Happen | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
Human Rights Law
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70334 | Bills of Rights | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70382 | Business and Human Rights | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90058 | Comparative Human Rights Law | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70169 | International Trade and Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90126 | Digital Trade | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90087 | Disability Human Rights Law | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90121 | Economic and Social Rights | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90124 | Gender and Human Rights | August (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70389 | Global Commercial Contract Law | February (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70013 | Global Financial Architecture |
May (Online)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70186 | Human Rights Advocacy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70422 | Human Rights and Armed Conflict | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70452 | Human Rights and Climate Change | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90044 | Human Rights and Economic Globalisation | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90160 | Human Rights and Global Justice | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70091 | Human Rights and Terrorism | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90045 | Human Rights and Universality | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70391 | Human Rights at Work | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70360 | Human Rights Beyond Borders | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90122 | Human Rights in Asia: Current Issues | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90174 | Human Rights in Australia | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70171 | Human Rights, Women and Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70454 | Human Rights: From Morality to Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90175 | Human Rights: Global Policy and Practice | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70392 | International Business Transactions |
May (Online)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70121 | International Commercial Arbitration |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70308 | International Economic Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70446 | International Equality Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70264 | International Human Rights Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70304 | Internat Investment Law and Arbitration |
October (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70120 | International Law and Children's Rights | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70366 | International Refugee Law | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70028 | International Trade Law |
July (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70122 | Investment, Regulation and Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70430 | Poverty, Human Rights and Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70433 | Regional Integration: The Case of the EU | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90049 | Reimagining Human Rights Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70322 | WTO Law and Dispute Settlement |
July (Online)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS90181 | WTO Trade Remedies | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
International Economic Law
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70169 | International Trade and Development | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90126 | Digital Trade | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70389 | Global Commercial Contract Law | February (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS70013 | Global Financial Architecture |
May (Online)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70392 | International Business Transactions |
May (Online)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70121 | International Commercial Arbitration |
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70308 | International Economic Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70304 | Internat Investment Law and Arbitration |
October (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70028 | International Trade Law |
July (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70433 | Regional Integration: The Case of the EU | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70322 | WTO Law and Dispute Settlement |
July (Online)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS90181 | WTO Trade Remedies | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
International Tax
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70009 | Comparative Corporate Tax | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70353 | Comparative International Tax | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90158 | Current Issues in International Tax | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70323 | Foundations of Tax Law |
March (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70006 | International Tax: Principles, Structure |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70399 | Mineral and Petroleum Tax | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90050 | Special Issues in Tax Treaties | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70162 | Tax Reform and Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70146 | Tax Treaties | November (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS90132 | Tax Treaty Interpretation | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70203 | Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems | Semester 1 (Extended) (Online) |
12.5 |
Other subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS90167 | Administrative Law in Tax Matters | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90242 | Ageing and Human Rights | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90147 | Biodiversity Law | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90170 | Bringing in the People | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90111 | Chinese Competition Law and Policy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90112 | Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90156 | Comparative Family Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90084 | Comparative Foreign Affairs Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90142 | Constitutionalism after Empire | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90255 | Constitutionalism and the Global South | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90146 | Construction Law in the Middle East | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90018 | Development, Labour and Human Rights | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70151 | Global Health Law | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70139 | International Construction Law | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90093 | International Criminal Court | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90246 | International Employment & Equality Law | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70218 | International Employment Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70219 | International Environmental Law | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70110 | International Financial System | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70125 | International Financial Transactions |
October (On Campus - Parkville)
December (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70242 | Internat.Issues in Intellectual Property | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90143 | International Lending | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70423 | International Mineral Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS70161 | International Petroleum Transactions | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70027 | International Securities Regulation | No longer available | |
LAWS90144 | International Sustainable Finance | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90042 | Int'l Law, Sustainability & Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90119 | Law and Public Administration | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90179 | Law, Science and Development | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90180 | Multi-level Government | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90114 | Negotiating Environmental Agreements | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90115 | Space, High Seas, Seabed & Antarctic Law | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
LAWS90251 | The Law and Economics of Globalisation |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS90253 | Transitional Justice | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90249 | UN Law and Practice | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90116 | Environmental Law and Policy | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
Last updated: 10 November 2023