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LAW5358Current issues in workplace law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will examine significant and contemporary issues in employment and labour relations law that arise in response to changes in legislation. Key court decisions, international developments, and government-, business- and...

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LAW5352Digital workplace law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit analyses the contemporary employment and labour law issues relating to the modern workplace in the digital era. This unit covers the following topics: The impact of the new digital workplace on the nature of work and the...

Semester 1Monash Law Chambers

LAW5370Discrimination law and human rights at work

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will examine topics such as the rights of the disabled at work, the rights of older workers, compulsory retirement age, flexible working practices, the right to return to work/part time work from maternity leave, sex, race and...

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LAW5015Ethics in legal practice

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit provides a practical and critical introduction to ethical decision-making and the law and codes of professional responsibility in lawyering. It introduces different moral approaches to legal practice, focusing on the...

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LAW5083Extended research

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Law

This unit involves completion of a 12,000-15,000 words (maximum) thesis. The topic is designed by the student in conjunction with a staff member and approved by the Board of Examiners. Students work under supervision but with considerable...

Summer ASemester 1Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5482Fintech law and regulation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The phenomenon global growth of financial technology, or ‘Fintech’, presents a range of complex legal and regulatory challenges. In particular, policymakers and regulators must decide whether to manage these developments within existing...

WinterMonash Law Chambers

LAW5499First people treaties

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit is organised around five interconnected themes. It opens by examining the concept of modern domestic treaties between states and Indigenous peoples; interrogating how such instruments are defined, their legal status within...

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LAW5383Forced migration, refugee law and human rights

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit explores the legal and policy issues raised by forced migration. It examines the causes of forced migration and the various international legal avenues providing protection for forced migrants, including international refugee law...

Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5467Gender and the law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

In this unit, students will be introduced to gender in relation to the law. The topics covered will include an introduction regarding intersectionality, including trans feminist, Paul Preciado’s critique of intersectionality; other areas...

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LAW5483Global health law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The unit examines the normative foundation and legal structure of key international global health organisations (particularly the World Health Organization) and the processes in international politics and policies directed at realising the...

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LAW5392Globalisation and international economic law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit is designed to critically examine the phenomenon of globalisation, and the related changes currently underway in contemporary international economic law. A particular focus of the unit is on the role of international economic law...

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LAW5428Health law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to, as well as critical analysis of, key issues in the study of health regulation, case law and policy in Australia. Topics covered in the unit may include introduction to the regulatory...

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LAW5422Human rights laws in Australia

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Australia has a variety of Human Rights laws and frameworks that expressly provide for rights protection and provide domestic avenues for the resolution of disputes that involve peoples human rights, these were predominantly dealt with...

Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5424Human trafficking, modern slavery and the law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

In this unit you will examine and evaluate the evolution of the international law response to the global problems of human trafficking and modern slavery. You will examine the overlaps between these concepts as well as that of forced...

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LAW5340Intellectual property

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The unit introduces the concept and categories of intellectual property law and the interface between them within a national and global context using case studies, and develops awareness of the role of the law in facilitating commercial...

Semester 1City (Melbourne)Monash Law Chambers

LAW5354International criminal justice

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will explore how the international community has responded to the most heinous international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression in the context of our modern history. The...

WinterMalaysiaMonash Law Chambers

LAW5431International entertainment law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The contemporary entertainment lawyer must possess a core competence in intellectual property, contracts and licensing, negotiation strategies, business organisation, commercial transactions, and international and comparative law as well...

Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5314International environmental law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit examines the way in which the international community tackles existing and future environmental problems including climate change, species decline, and pollution. International obligations in respect of various environmental...

Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5359International human rights law and women

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Securing the protection and promotion of the human rights of women remains a challenge in the 21st century. Notwithstanding the significant advances in international human rights norms relating to women, systemic discrimination and...

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LAW5384International investment law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit studies the international legal framework for international investments. It provides an understanding of the development of the law, and the economic, political and institutional factors that have shaped the law to its current...

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