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L4005 Graduate Certificate of Laws
Faculty of Law
Graduate Certificate of Laws (L4005) is a 0.5 years full-time, 24-credit-point, graduate certificate course from the Faculty of Law, taught at Monash Law Chambers. Map your units semester by semester with the MonMap planner.
- Credit points
- 24
- Duration
- 0.5 years full time
- 1 years part time
- Campus
- Monash Law Chambers
- On campus
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Overview
The Graduate Certificate of Laws is designed to let you advance your skills and knowledge of developments in the principles, practice, and scholarship of one or more areas of law. You can focus on a specialised area or select from a broad range of electives for professional practice.
You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex legal issues from theoretical, global and interdisciplinary perspectives.
You can choose from the full range of Monash Law's postgraduate program, enabling you to individually tailor your studies to suit your interests and professional needs.
Course structure
Law Study24 credit points
You must complete 4 units (24 credit points) from the extending specialist knowledge electives offered in Part C of the Master of Laws (L6004). You can choose any 4 units, including choosing units from multiple specialisations for a more generalist path. Note: International students must complete LAW5081 Australian legal process and research.
- COMCRPLW01Area of studyCommercial and corporate lawNo reviews yet24 cp
- CRIMLWFR01Area of studyCriminal law and forensicsNo reviews yet24 cp
- DISRESLN03Area of studyDispute resolutionNo reviews yet24 cp
- GLBSOCHR01Area of studyGlobal society and human rightsNo reviews yet24 cp
- HLTHLWCM01Area of studyHealth law and communityNo reviews yet24 cp
- LABEMPLW01Area of studyLabour and employment lawNo reviews yet24 cp
- PSGOVREG01Area of studyPublic sector governance and regulationNo reviews yet24 cp
- TECHINVT01Area of studyTechnology and innovationNo reviews yet24 cp
- TRANSECR01Area of studyTransnational economic regulationNo reviews yet24 cp
The handbook's description of this structure
The course comprises 24 points of Law studies.
Course progression map
The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment.
You must complete 4 units (24 points) from the Extending specialist knowledge electives offered in Part C of the Master of Laws (L6004). You can choose any 4 units, including choosing units from multiple specialisations for a more generalist path.
International students must complete LAW5081 Australian legal process and research.
Units are 6 credit point unless otherwise stated.
Electives
Commercial and Corporate Law
- LAW5301 Copyright
- LAW5302 European Union law and policy
- LAW5305 International trade law
- LAW5306 Corporate insolvency
- LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
- LAW5312 Competition law
- LAW5314 International environmental law
- LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
- LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
- LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
- LAW5319 Law of employee relations
- LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
- LAW5332 International commercial arbitration
- LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
- LAW5340 Intellectual property
- LAW5341 Trade mark practice
- LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
- LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
- LAW5345 Business and human rights
- LAW5346 Design law and practice
- LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
- LAW5350 Principles of taxation
- LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
- LAW5353 Cybercrime
- LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crim
- LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
- LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
- LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
- LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
- LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
- LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
- LAW5384 International investment law
- LAW5385 Corporate finance law
- LAW5388 Patenting for commercialisation
- LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
- LAW5394 Banking law
- LAW5399 Personal property securities
- LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
- LAW5419 The law of financial transactions
- LAW5431 International entertainment law
- LAW5437 China's legal system
- LAW5440 International commercial dispute resolution advocacy
- LAW5441 Australian tax policy
- LAW5444 Advanced commercial contracts masterclass
- LAW5445 Commercial equity
- LAW5448 Copyright X: US and international copyright law and theory
- LAW5450 Principles of succession law
- LAW5452 Private investment law
- LAW5461 Entrepreneurship and the law
- LAW5464 Negotiation and influence: Strategy and skills
- LAW5466 Financial services law
- LAW5606 Restitution
- LAW5611 Comparative issues in patent law
- LAW5612 International litigation and arbitration
- LAW5617 International and comparative taxation law
- LAW5626 International and comparative insolvency law
- LAW5628 International and comparative trademark law
- LAW5632 International information and media law
- LAW5634 Global economic law
- LAW5645 Conventional and islamic international banking and finance law
- LAW5648 Comparative and commercial transactions
- LAW5649 Law in the age of artificial intelligence
- LAW5650 Legal tech studio
Transnational Economic Law
- LAW5301 Copyright
- LAW5302 European Union law and policy
- LAW5305 International trade law
- LAW5312 Competition law
- LAW5314 International environmental law
- LAW5325 Defamation law
- LAW5332 International commercial arbitration
- LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
- LAW5345 Business and human rights
- LAW5366 International banking and finance: Law and practice
- LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
- LAW5384 International investment law
- LAW5389 The law of climate change
- LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
- LAW5398 Transnational labour law
- LAW5431 International entertainment law
- LAW5440 International commercial dispute resolution advocacy
- LAW5448 Copyright X: US and international copyright law and theory
- LAW5603 Comparative cyberlaw
- LAW5608 Transnational litigation
- LAW5611 Comparative issues in patent law
- LAW5617 International and comparative taxation law
- LAW5618 Comparative cybercrime
- LAW5620 Privacy and surveillance in an information age: Comparative law perspectives
- LAW5626 International and comparative insolvency law
- LAW5628 International and comparative trademark law
- LAW5630 European and international monetary law
- LAW5632 International information and media law
- LAW5634 Global economic law
- LAW5635 Contemporary issues in international sports law
- LAW5636 EU external relations: Law and policy
- LAW5637 Asian legal systems
- LAW5640 International and transnational law and the green economy
- LAW5645 Conventional and islamic international banking and finance law
- LAW5648 Comparative and commercial transactions
- LAW5649 Law in the age of artificial intelligence
Technology and Innovation
- LAW5301 Copyright
- LAW5305 International trade law
- LAW5316 Trade marks and commercial designations
- LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
- LAW5321 Protecting commercial innovation: Patents and trade secrets
- LAW5325 Defamation law
- LAW5339 Technology contracts and licensing law
- LAW5340 Intellectual property
- LAW5341 Trade mark practice
- LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
- LAW5346 Design law and practice
- LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
- LAW5353 Cybercrime
- LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
- LAW5388 Patenting for commercialisation
- LAW5389 The law of climate change
- LAW5444 Advanced commercial contracts masterclass
- LAW5448 Copyright X: US and international copyright law and theory
- LAW5455 Chinese law and innovation policies
- LAW5456 Science, technology and law
- LAW5457 Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
- LAW5460 Online dispute resolution
- LAW5461 Entrepreneurship and the law
- LAW5600 Issues in medical ethics and law
- LAW5603 Comparative cyberlaw
- LAW5611 Comparative issues in patent law
- LAW5616 Air and space law
- LAW5618 Comparative cybercrime
- LAW5620 Privacy and surveillance in an information age: Comparative law perspectives
- LAW5628 International and comparative trademark law
- LAW5632 International information and media law
- LAW5649 Law in the age of artificial intelligence
- LAW5650 Legal tech studio
Global Society and Human Rights
- LAW5302 European Union law and policy
- LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
- LAW5305 International trade law
- LAW5314 International environmental law
- LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
- LAW5325 Defamation law
- LAW5326 Comparative European legal systems
- LAW5327 International human rights
- LAW5330 International refugee law and practice
- LAW5331 Comparative constitution and rights
- LAW5333 Comparative criminal law
- LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and the law
- LAW5335 Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
- LAW5338 International humanitarian law
- LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
- LAW5345 Business and human rights
- LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
- LAW5354 International criminal justice
- LAW5359 International human rights law and women
- LAW5364 Economic, social and cultural rights and international law
- LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
- LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
- LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
- LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
- LAW5383 International refugee law and human rights
- LAW5384 International investment law
- LAW5389 The law of climate change
- LAW5392 Globalisation and international economic law
- LAW5407 Current issues in torts
- LAW5414 Public international law
- LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
- LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
- LAW5424 Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law
- LAW5433 Victims, law and mass atrocity
- LAW5436 International and comparative family law
- LAW5437 China's legal system
- LAW5439 Sexual and gender minorities and human rights
- LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
- LAW5454 Climate change and displacement
- LAW5455 Chinese law and innovation policies
- LAW5459 Australians detained abroad
- LAW5463 Children's law in action
- LAW5465 Migration and Human Rights
- LAW5467 Gender and the law
- LAW5469 Family violence, gender and law
- LAW5603 Comparative cyberlaw
- LAW5619 European human rights law
- LAW5620 Privacy and surveillance in an information age: Comparative law perspectives
- LAW5624 Introduction to Islamic law
- LAW5638 Climate change and international law
- LAW5639 Comparative indigenous rights
- LAW5640 International and transnational law and the green economy
- LAW5644 Sovereignty and globalisation
- LAW5649 Law in the age of artificial intelligence
- LAW5651 Human Rights and Migration in comparative perspective
Public Sector Governance and Regulation
- LAW5304 Overview of international human rights law
- LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
- LAW5310 Sentencing
- LAW5312 Competition law
- LAW5313 Planning law
- LAW5314 International environmental law
- LAW5317 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
- LAW5319 Law of employee relations
- LAW5320 Local government law
- LAW5327 International human rights
- LAW5331 Comparative constitution and rights
- LAW5333 Comparative criminal law
- LAW5335 Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
- LAW5340 Intellectual property
- LAW5341 Trade mark practice
- LAW5343 Privacy and surveillance: Law, policy and governance
- LAW5347 Consumer policy and regulation
- LAW5348 Indigenous rights and international law
- LAW5350 Principles of taxation
- LAW5352 Digital workplace law
- LAW5353 Cybercrime
- LAW5354 International criminal justice
- LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
- LAW5357 Corporate governance and directors' duties
- LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
- LAW5361 Foundations of regulation: Policy, principles and practice
- LAW5362 Regulatory methods
- LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
- LAW5367 Energy law, regulation and policy
- LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
- LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
- LAW5382 Principles of environmental law
- LAW5389 The law of climate change
- LAW5407 Current issues in torts
- LAW5414 Public international law
- LAW5419 The law of financial transactions
- LAW5422 Victorian charter of rights and responsibilities
- LAW5424 Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law
- LAW5428 Health law
- LAW5434 Principles of government law and administration
- LAW5441 Australian tax policy
- LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
- LAW5456 Science, technology and law
- LAW5458 Animal law, regulation and policy
- LAW5470 Exposing failures and wrongdoing: royal commissions and public inquiries
- LAW5616 Air and space law
- LAW5620 Privacy and surveillance in an information age: Comparative law perspectives
- LAW5638 Climate change and international law
- LAW5639 Comparative indigenous rights
- LAW5647 Contemporary issues in public policy, regulation and the law
Dispute Resolution
- LAW5303 Forensic family law
- LAW5305 International trade law
- LAW5310 Sentencing
- LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
- LAW5325 Defamation law
- LAW5332 International commercial arbitration
- LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
- LAW5355 Advocacy: Theory and practice
- LAW5375 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
- LAW5381 Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice
- LAW5408 Remedies in commercial disputes
- LAW5410 Collaborative practice
- LAW5411 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory A
- LAW5412 Advanced mediation: Skills and theory B
- LAW5421 Managing high conflict personalities in legal disputes
- LAW5429 Advanced commercial negotiation skills
- LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
- LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
- LAW5440 International commercial dispute resolution advocacy
- LAW5443 Language, communication and legal process
- LAW5457 Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
- LAW5460 Online dispute resolution
- LAW5462 Non-adversarial practice
- LAW5464 Negotiation and influence: Strategy and skills
- LAW5606 Restitution
- LAW5612 International litigation and arbitration
- LAW5621 Mediation and law: From problem solving to narrative building
- LAW5627 Judgment and decision-making
Labour and Employment Law
- LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
- LAW5315 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
- LAW5319 Law of employee relations
- LAW5344 Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution
- LAW5352 Electronic workplace law
- LAW5358 Current issues in workplace law
- LAW5370 Discrimination law and human rights at work
- LAW5374 Federal labour law
- LAW5390 Workplace bargaining and agreements law
- LAW5393 Law of workforce management
- LAW5398 Transnational labour law
- LAW5432 Workplace investigations and misconduct
- LAW5464 Negotiation and influence: Strategy and skills
- LAW5633 Contemporary workplace relations law
Criminal Law and Forensics
- LAW5303 Forensic family law
- LAW5310 Sentencing
- LAW5333 Comparative criminal law
- LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
- LAW5335 Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
- LAW5353 Cybercrime
- LAW5354 International criminal justice
- LAW5356 Corporate and white collar crime
- LAW5365 Terrorism and human rights
- LAW5376 International criminal law: Procedural and practical aspects
- LAW5430 Advanced evidence and proof in litigation
- LAW5457 Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
- LAW5469 Family violence, gender and law
- LAW5618 Comparative cybercrime
Health Law and Community
- LAW5303 Forensic family law
- LAW5307 Occupational health and safety
- LAW5334 Psychiatry, psychology and law
- LAW5359 International human rights law and women
- LAW5364 Economic, social and cultural rights and international law
- LAW5407 Current issues in torts
- LAW5409 Principles of family law
- LAW5417 Children's rights in international law
- LAW5424 Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law
- LAW5428 Health law
- LAW5436 International and comparative family law
- LAW5438 Current issues in sports law
- LAW5439 Sexual and gender minorities and human rights
- LAW5451 Indigenous people and the law
- LAW5456 Science, technology and law
- LAW5457 Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
- LAW5459 Australians detained abroad
- LAW5463 Children's law in action
- LAW5467 Gender and the law
- LAW5469 Family violence, gender and law
- LAW5600 Issues in medical ethics and law
- LAW5635 Contemporary issues in international sports law
- LAW5639 Comparative indigenous rights
Areas of study
Other areas of study (9)
- COMCRPLW01Commercial and corporate lawNo reviews yet
- CRIMLWFR01Criminal law and forensicsNo reviews yet
- DISRESLN03Dispute resolutionNo reviews yet
- GLBSOCHR01Global society and human rightsNo reviews yet
- HLTHLWCM01Health law and communityNo reviews yet
- LABEMPLW01Labour and employment lawNo reviews yet
- PSGOVREG01Public sector governance and regulationNo reviews yet
- TECHINVT01Technology and innovationNo reviews yet
- TRANSECR01Transnational economic regulationNo reviews yet
Learning outcomes
These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate advanced theoretical knowledge in law and legal practice relevant to the domestic and global legal environment.
- 2
Synthesise information and critically analyse theories, and apply them to new situations in law and legal practice.
- 3
Articulate legal arguments, reasoning, and conclusions to professional and non-professional audiences.
- 4
Demonstrate autonomy and integrity in the application of knowledge and skills.
Entry requirements
English language
Monash minimum: Level 1 - Band A, that is: IELTS: 6.5 overall (no band lower than 6.0); or TOEFL Paper-based test: 550 with a TWE of 4.5; or TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 79 overall with minimum scores: Writing: 21, Listening: 12, Reading: 13 and Speaking: 18; or Equivalent approved English test.
More information
Progression to further studies
Successful completion of this course may provide a pathway to a Master of Laws (L6004).
Other information
The Graduate Certificate of Laws is designed to let you advance your skills and knowledge of developments in the principles, practice, and scholarship of one or more areas of law. You can focus on a specialised area or select from a broad range of electives for professional practice.
You will investigate contemporary issues in law, practice and scholarship, and evaluate complex legal issues from theoretical, global and interdisciplinary perspectives.
You can choose from the full range of Monash Law's postgraduate program, enabling you to individually tailor your studies to suit your interests and professional needs.
Common questions
How long is Graduate Certificate of Laws?
0.5 years full time, 24 credit points. At 24 credit points a semester, that is 1 semesters of full-time study.
Where can I study Graduate Certificate of Laws?
At Monash Law Chambers.
How do I plan my Graduate Certificate of Laws units?
Open the course in the MonMap planner. It lays out your semesters, checks prerequisites as you drag units in, and tracks the credit points each requirement still needs.