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Trade, Investment, IP and Health (LAWS90092)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable (login required)(opens in new window)
Contact information
August
Lecturer(s)
Jonathan Liberman (Coordinator)
Tania Voon
Email: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352), International: +(61 3) 9035 5511
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability(Quotas apply) | August |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
Trade, investment, intellectual property and health laws and norms interact in multiple ways, both to the benefit of health and to its detriment. This subject explores the harmonies and tensions across these critical areas of policy and governance at legal, normative, operational and institutional levels. It draws out key themes by examining major global health challenges of our time including pandemics (primarily COVID-19) and other international health emergencies, and noncommunicable diseases (such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease). The subject examines several high-profile areas of controversy in detail, such as: the tensions between intellectual property protection and access to affordable medicines and vaccines; restrictions on international trade (including in medicines, vaccines and medical equipment) imposed by countries in response to COVID-19; and the World Trade Organization and investment treaty challenges to tobacco packaging laws.
Principal topics may include:
- Overview of international trade, investment and intellectual property laws and governance, including key international institutions such as the World Trade Organization
- Overview of global health law and governance, including the role of the World Health Organization
- International cooperation to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics and other international health emergencies, including current and recent developments in the negotiation of new international rules through the World Health Organization
- International trade, investment and intellectual property challenges in pharmaceutical innovation and access to affordable medicines and vaccines
- The lawfulness under international trade law of export restrictions on medicines, vaccines and medical equipment
- International trade, investment and intellectual property challenges to the regulation of tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food
- Opportunities and challenges for achieving multi-sectoral trade-investment-intellectual property-health collaboration and understanding
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- Identify and explain the major substantive obligations, and the key institutions and actors involved, in international trade, investment and intellectual property law;
- Recognise and analyse major global health law obligations, and the key global health institutions and actors;
- Appreciate the harmonies and tensions between international trade, investment and intellectual property laws and norms, and global health concerns;
- Apply relevant international trade, investment, intellectual property, and global health laws and norms to a range of topical factual scenarios relating to health, so as to reach logical and reasoned conclusions about the rights and obligations of the various state and non-state actors involved;
- Critically analyse and reflect on the role of international trade, investment, intellectual property, and global health actors and institutions in responding to, and resolving, current global health concerns;
- Discuss and participate effectively in debates concerning international trade, investment, intellectual property and global health laws, norms and institutions.
Last updated: 14 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
Admission into a Melbourne Law Masters program
Option 2
Admission into the MC-JURISD Juris Doctor
JD students are required to have studied an international law subject.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
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: 14 March 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Class participation | Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Research paper on a topic approved by the subject coordinator
| 2 October 2024 | 90% |
Last updated: 14 March 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- August
Principal coordinator Jonathan Liberman Coordinator Tania Voon Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 150 hours Pre teaching start date 10 July 2024 Pre teaching requirements Please refer to the Reading Guide on the LMS subject page for confirmation of which resources need to be read and what other preparation is required before the teaching period commences. Teaching period 7 August 2024 to 13 August 2024 Last self-enrol date 15 July 2024 Census date 8 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 30 August 2024 Assessment period ends 2 October 2024 August contact information
Lecturer(s)
Jonathan Liberman (Coordinator)
Tania VoonEmail: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352), International: +(61 3) 9035 5511
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
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: 14 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Specialist materials will be made available on the LMS in the pre-teaching period.
- Related Handbook entries
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- 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 14 March 2024