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LAW4312Legal issues in medicine

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

The Unit explores legal and ethical dilemmas that arise in medicine and law. A central focus will be considering the principles and regulation of medical practice and allied health professionals under Victorian law; the legal and ethical...

Semester 1Clayton

LAW4137Legal philosophy

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

You will study the major contemporary theories of law and legal reasoning (positivism, natural law, interpretivism, realism), and the main lines of debates between them. These debates concern the nature and foundations of law, the...

Semester 2Clayton

LAW5500Legal technology and AI by design

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit responds to the need for you to develop new ways of “thinking like a lawyer” in a technology-driven and AI-enabled legal environment. It focuses on the growing role of AI in legal practice, legal service delivery, client...

LAW4303Litigation and dispute resolution

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

The focus of the unit is the major steps in civil dispute resolution and litigation. Using the Rules of the Supreme Court of Victoria, the chronology of a civil proceeding from the decision to sue until the matter is ready for trial is...

Summer ASemester 1Semester 2Clayton

LAW5421Managing high conflict personalities in legal disputes

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit focuses on managing personalities in conflict resolution, particularly resolving disputes involving "high-conflict" personalities. The course will help students and practicing professionals recognize personality styles, choose...

LAW5082Masters research

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Masters coursework students take this unit in their penultimate or final semester. Students in LAW5082 are attached to a nominated masters unit (in their specialisation area, if any) in which they participate as any other student. However,...

Semester 1Semester 2Monash Law Chambers

LAW5411Mediation A: Foundations of mediation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit provides you with an opportunity to learn via practice, the essential negotiation, mediation and communication skills required to become a mediator and which are valuable for legal practitioners when assisting clients in...

LAW5412Mediation B: Essential skills for practice and accreditation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit builds on the skills developed in LAW5411 and focuses on refining and assessing those skills. It will also develop and extend research work that is focused in the core competency areas. Students will refine their skills by...

LAW4571Mental health, intellectual disability and criminal justice

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

This unit explores the relevance of mental disorder or intellectual disability in criminal law and procedure with a critical analysis of complex inter-and cross-disciplinary issues in application and evolving (human) rights concerns about...

LAW5465Migration and human rights

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

The unit focuses on the human rights dimensions of migration from an international and comparative perspective. The international movement of people poses one of the greatest challenges to the existing regime of international human rights...

LAW5084Minor thesis

UnitLevel 5|24 credit points|Law

This unit involves completion of a 25,000-30,000 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

LAW4564Miscarriages of justice

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

This subject explores what happens when the criminal justice system gets it wrong. Drawing on case studies, it examines the legal, forensic and sociological factors that contribute to miscarriages of justice and considers the human and...

Semester 1Clayton

LAW4805Mooting and advocacy competition

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

Admission to this unit is by competitive application. The unit will be capped depending on the number of competitions offered from year to year. Criteria for selection will include course progression, marks in completed units, experience...

Semester 2Clayton

LAW5058Mooting and advocacy competition

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Admission to this unit is by competitive application. The unit will be capped depending on the number of competitions offered from year to year. Criteria for selection will include course progression, marks in completed units, experience...

Semester 2Clayton

LAW4902Movement lawyering

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

This unit will explore the theory and practice of lawyering in service of social movements, drawing on case studies (e.g. the climate crisis) and critical scholarship from around the world. Topics are likely to include the history and...

LAW5663Movement lawyering

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit will explore the theory and practice of lawyering in service of social movements, drawing on case studies (e.g. the climate crisis) and critical scholarship from around the world. Topics are likely to include the history and...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW4160Negotiation and conflict resolution

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

Drawing on ideas first popularised at the Harvard Negotiation Project and on work from a variety of research perspectives, this unit examines the theory and practice of negotiation and aims to improve students' effectiveness as...

LAW5464Negotiation and influence: Strategy and skills

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

Like it or not you are a negotiator and communicator. Whether you're a project manager or procurement officer, lawyer, human resource consultant or c-suite executive, whether you're in sales or marking, strategy or business development,...

Monash Law Chambers

LAW5344Negotiation: Essential skills for dispute resolution

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Law

This unit provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and skills of Principled Negotiation, and their applications in mediation and related forms of dispute resolution. You will: explore a coherent and systematic framework for...

LAW4225Non-adversarial justice

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Law

This unit focuses on forms of problem-solving, dispute prevention and dispute resolution outside the adversarial system. It examines ways of lawyering that employ non-adversarial, psychologically beneficial and humanistic methods of...

Semester 2Clayton