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LAW5411Mediation A: Foundations of mediation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
LAW4575Outer space law
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This unit introduces you to the international and domestic legal frameworks governing the exploration and use of outer space. It examines the foundational principles of outer space law, including peaceful use, freedom of exploration,...
Semester 2Clayton
LAW5304Overview of international human rights law
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This unit is an overview of international human rights law, providing the requisite foundational knowledge for further study and practise in this area. After a brief introduction to public international law, the unit focuses on...
Monash Law Chambers
LAW4163Parents, children and the state
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Examines legislative structures for resolving disputes between parents, children and State child welfare authorities and the difficulties which arise as the result of the divided Commonwealth/State responsibility. Examines creation of...
LAW4342Patents and trade marks
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This unit involves a detailed consideration of patent law, trade mark law and, to a lesser extent, the law of unfair competition. Students will be required to comprehend the development of patent law over time and analyse patent...
Semester 1Clayton
LAW5321Patents and trade secrets
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This is an important unit for any student who practises or seeks to practise in the area of intellectual property law or who works in an innovative commercial environment where research results in new products and processes. A patent...
LAW5313Planning and environmental law
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The population of metropolitan Melbourne is growing rapidly, passing 5 million in July 2019 and anticipated to grow to more than 8 million by 2050. This is the current size of London and New York. According to the Victorian Government’s...