LAW4814 Extended clinical placement
Faculty of Law
LAW4814 Extended clinical placement is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Law. It isn't offered in 2025. It needs LAW5050, LAW4813, LAW4330 or LAW4328.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Other periods
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before LAW4814
After LAW4814
No unit lists LAW4814 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must have completed at least 72 credit points of law study, plus one of the listed pre-requisites.
Overview
This unit offers an additional clinical placement opportunity – an advanced clinical placement in a specialised area of law, supervised by expert practitioner-scholars. This additional clinical unit is open to students who have already had involvement in a client facing clinic at Monash Law Clinics or Southeast Monash Legal Service, such as the Lawyer Assisted Family Dispute Resolution clinic, Professional Practice, or cohealth Monash Legal Assistance Clinic. It allows them to advance both their knowledge and skills in more complex matters, and/or specialist areas of law. Students entering a specialised clinic who already have a background of clinical placement will have the chance to build on the skills and attitudes they have already acquired in previous simulated and clinical experiences. This will enhance both teaching outcomes for the student as well as problem resolution outcomes for clinic clients with complex legal issues.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Trimester 1 | Clayton | On campus |
| Trimester 2 | Clayton | On campus |
| Trimester 3 | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Performance of clinic responsibilitiesDemonstration70%
- Law reform community engagementPresentation15%
- Reflective journalWritten15%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Independently undertake complex and advanced legal research to inform the effective practice of a range of legal functions, including the provision of well-informed and appropriate client representation, support and advice, as well as ethical responses to general, specific and complex legal problems.
- 2
Demonstrate advanced practical legal skills in areas such as interviewing, drafting letters of advice, briefing counsel, taking carriage of a legal matter on client’s instructions, advocacy, court and tribunal appearances and restorative justice and ADR.
- 3
Build on previous clinic skills in assisting clients through decision making processes and managing their expectations.
- 4
Demonstrate an ability to advocate, communicate and liaise with legal and non-legal stakeholders in both formal and informal ways
- 5
Assess their own capabilities and performance as future legal practitioners by having developed skills of self-reflection and self-management.
- 6
Independently identify law reform or policy problems of relevance to the specialised areas of law practised at the clinic, and critically analyse the relevant legal principles that underpin those problems, and articulate sophisticated recommendations for reform; and/or demonstrate the ability to create resources, professional development or community education options for key stakeholders
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachProfessional placement
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcome for this unit is as follows:
- A half day orientation program
- A full day placement day weekly for 12 weeks, plus a half day follow up in students’ own time
- Self-directed online seminar program
Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, client interviewing and advice sessions, supervision and online engagement.
Learning resources
Required resources
See the Moodle unit page for prescribed and recommended resources. Prescribed texts are usually available for purchase through the University Bookstore and are sometimes available for short-term loan or as eBooks through the library.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Joel Townsend