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LAW5059Extension mooting 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...
LAW4177Family law
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This unit gives you an understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts in Family Law. Topics include: the family - history and the concept of 'the family' practising family law - professional and ethical challenges and courts...
Summer AWinterSemester 2Clayton
LAW4330Family law assistance program: Professional practice
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Students undertake a practical placement in a specialist family law program based at a community legal centre which endeavours to meet the legal needs of its community. Under supervision by qualified solicitors, students provide legal...
Clayton
LAW5469Family violence, gender and law
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This unit focuses legal responses to the pervasive problem of family violence. It considers the nature and adequacy of our laws in preventing, identifying and responding to gendered family violence. The unit is structured around four...
LAW4572Family violence law
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This unit focuses on legal responses to the pervasive problem of family violence. It considers the nature and adequacy of our laws in preventing, identifying and responding to gendered family violence. The unit is structured around four...
Semester 1Clayton
LAW5374Federal labour law
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The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and related legislation which have enacted fundamental changes in federal labour law since the 'Work Choices' changes, will be critically examined. Topics include changes to industrial dispute resolution,...
LAW5466Financial services law
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This is an introductory subject to financial services law and regulation in Australia. It will introduce the regulation of financial services in its historical and theoretical context. You will gain an understanding of the key regulatory...
LAW4546Fintech and the law
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The phenomenal 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...
LAW5482Fintech law and regulation
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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
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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...
Monash Law Chambers
LAW5383Forced migration, refugee law and human rights
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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
LAW4304Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
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This unit examines the interaction between science, medicine, technology and the law. It focuses on the issues that arise when experts give forensic evidence in legal proceedings. Each week experts will present lectures about their areas...
WinterClayton
LAW5457Forensic evidence: Law, science, medicine and technology
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This unit examines the intersection between science, medicine, technology and the law. It focuses on the issues that arise when experts give forensic evidence in legal proceedings. It includes presentations by a number of forensic experts...
WinterClayton
LAW1111Foundations of law
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The unit examines the foundation and structure of the institutions and processes of the Australian legal system, including legal practice as a distinctive element within the Australian legal process. It introduces the sources of...
Semester 1Semester 2Clayton
LAW4568Foundations of mediation
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This unit provides students 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...
Semester 1Clayton
LAW4552Gender and the criminal justice system
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This unit critically examines how gender, as a social and legal construct, shapes the operation, outcomes, and institutional design of the criminal justice system. It explores the ways in which legal doctrines, policy responses, and...
Semester 2Clayton
LAW4541Gender and the law
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In this unit, you 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 of...
LAW5467Gender and the law
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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...
Monash Law Chambers
LAW4547Global health law
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The unit provides a basic introduction to 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...
Semester 1Clayton
LAW5483Global health law
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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...
Monash Law Chambers