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LAW5491Advanced corporations law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit explores advanced topics in corporations not covered in compulsory units in corporations law. Issues will be selected for examination depending on their current theoretical or practical importance. Issues may be approached from a...

WinterPrato

LAW5430Advanced evidence and proof in criminal litigation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Students will gain advanced skills in working with issues of evidence and proof in the criminal trial context. These will include critical analysis and evaluation of selected provisions of the Evidence Act 2008 (Vic) and the Jury...

Semester 1City (Melbourne)

LAW5018Advanced property law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit builds upon the Principles of Property Law course in relation to Land Law, set within the context of priority disputes. The unit examines: resulting trusts and constructive trusts in relation to land, concurrent ownership...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5355Advocacy

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will develop your deeper theoretical understanding of the essential role of advocacy in the adversary system. It will enable you to better appreciate the way in which cases evolve through the courts and how the factual and...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5650AI for lawyers: Practical applications and theory

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit examines the integration of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) into legal practice, focusing on both present applications and future possibilities. This unit’s focus is not about the regulatory environment for AI, it is...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5458Animal law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit examines the ways in which Australian law defines and regulates the control, treatment and welfare of non-human animals. Significant laws, regulatory systems, and contemporary policy debates related to human uses of animals in...

LAW5375Arbitration of international commercial disputes

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The unit analyses international commercial arbitration from an advanced practical and theoretical perspective, its sources of law and the ways in which it is integrated within domestic legal systems. Attention is given to the lifecycle of...

City (Melbourne)

LAW5637Asian legal systems

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit is designed to examine contemporary issues in the Asian legal systems. It will examine the Asian perspectives on the rule of law, the court reform, constitutionalism, security and human rights, legal pluralism, corruption and the...

LAW5081Australian legal process and research

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit is designed to provide international students and students with prior qualifications from overseas, in particular those from civil law countries, with a general understanding of the operation of the Australian legal system and...

Semester 1Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5000Australian legal reasoning and methods

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The unit provides students who are new to the study of Australian law with advanced knowledge and understanding of the Australian legal system, its underlying principles and concepts (including international and comparative contexts),...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5496Australian migration law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The central focus of the unit is to equip you to prepare submissions to various bodies/institutions including the Department of Home Affairs, the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) and the Courts. The unit is principally designed around...

LAW5479Avoidance, management and resolution of construction disputes

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit focuses on the avoidance, management and resolution of construction disputes, a speciality area of construction law that is commonly referred to as the ‘back end’. It will take a chronological approach, beginning with a critical...

LAW5394Banking law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit provides an overview of the key relevant legal principles and practice of banking. It primarily addresses the regulation of banks and other deposit-taking institutions and their relationship with their customers. It covers law,...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5345Business and human rights

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit focuses on the impact upon human rights of business activities, particularly those of multinational enterprises, and accountability mechanisms for those impacts in international, transnational and domestic law. This topic is one...

LAW5417Children's rights in international law

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Securing the rights of children remains a challenge in the 21st century. Children continue to be exploited and abused on a regular basis and the use of child labour and child soldiers continues. In addition, violence against children and...

LAW5437China's legal system

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit aims to provide students with a basic understanding of Chinese legal institutions. There will be focus not just on the law itself, but also on matters of legal culture, politics, economics, institutional design, and other matters...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5454Climate change and displacement

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will provide a state of the art, up to date overview of the links between climate change and citizen justice. It will discuss the phenomena of climate displacement, providing an understanding of the dynamics of climate...

LAW5666Climate litigation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will explore the emerging and growing global phenomenon of climate litigation, namely the use of courts to try to achieve climate regulatory outcomes. The unit will critically examine examples of major climate litigation cases...

LAW5315Commercial alternative dispute resolution

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Commercial alternative dispute resolution methods and the process of mediation. The uses, benefits and limitations of various ADR processes are critically examined. The impact of ADR on the legal system and the development of law are...

LAW5445Commercial equity

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit is designed to deepen your understanding of commercial equity. You will examine the evolution of certain core equitable doctrines most relevant to commercial practice and their application in contemporary contexts. Building on...

Semester 2Monash Law Chambers