Postgraduate Units

The Monash postgraduate program offers a large number of units across many areas of specialisations and practice areas. These units may be undertaken as part of the masters or graduates diploma programs or as single unit enrolments.  Most postgraduate units are taught at the city-based Monash University Law Chambers located on Bourke Street Melbourne, however some may be studied online or at the Clayton campus. Most units are scheduled at convenient times to suit the needs of busy professionals.  Please refer to the current timetable  for starting dates and location of those units currently offered.

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A

Unit name	Unit code
Administrative justice issues in tribunal adjudication	LAW7250	√	√
Advanced international commercial arbitration	LAW7339	√	√	√			√
Advanced negotiation and mediation skills	LAW7312	√	√	√						√
Advocacy: theory and practice (2009 unit)	LAW7303	√	√
Arbitration of domestic commercial disputes (2009 unit)	LAW7443	√	√	√			√
Australian corporate law	LAW7263	√		√
Australian legal system (2009 unit)	LAW7212	√		√	√	√	√	√	√	√

C

Unit name	Unit code
Case studies in regulation	LAW7328	√							√
Children's rights in international and domestic law	LAW7319	√			√		√
Commercial alternative dispute resolution (2009 unit)	LAW7071	√	√	√		√				√
Commercial equity	LAW7004	√	√	√
Commercial leases	LAW7009	√		√
Communications law and regulation (2009 unit)	LAW7322	√		√					√
Comparative bills of rights (2009 unit)	LAW7333	√			√		√
Comparative competition law (2009 unit)	LAW7278	√	√	√			√		√
Comparative family law 700	LAW7007	√
Competition law (2009 unit)	LAW7056	√		√		√			√
Confiscation of the proceeds of crime	LAW7082	√
Consumer credit	LAW7109	√		√
Consumer protection: regulation and compliance (2009 unit)	LAW7258	√		√					√
Contemporary issues in administrative law	LAW7307	√		√
Contemporary legal thought	LAW7010	√
Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice	LAW7208	√
Copyright (2009 unit)	LAW7011	√		√		√
Corporate and white collar crime (2009 unit)	LAW7304	√		√						√
Corporate finance law	LAW7430	√		√
Corporate governance and directors' duties (2009 unit)	LAW7306	√		√					√
Corporate groups and governance	LAW7261	√		√
Corporate insolvency (2009 unit)	LAW7031	√		√
Current issues in administrative law	LAW7217	√
Current issues in civil procedure	LAW7013	√	√
Current issues in electronic commerce law	LAW7245	√	√	√
Current issues in evidence	LAW7040	√	√
Current issues in human rights law	LAW7419	√			√		√
Current issues in intellectual property (2009 unit)	LAW7309	√		√		√
Current issues in workplace law (2009 unit)	LAW7310	√		√						√
Current problems in family law	LAW7060	√	√		√
Current problems in taxation	LAW7015	√		√
Cybercrime	LAW7280	√		√

D

Unit name	Unit code
Death dying and the courts	LAW7431	√
Decision making for tribunal members	LAW7248	√	√
Defamation law (2009 unit)	LAW7140	√
Design law and practice (2009 unit)	LAW7254	√		√		√

E

Unit name	Unit code
Economic torts	LAW7018		√		√				√
Electronic workplace law	LAW7279	√	√				√		√
Employee share ownership plans	LAW7205		√						√
Energy law, regulation and policy (2009 unit)	LAW7324		√			√		√
Equity capital markets law in australia (2009 unit)	LAW7437	√
European union law and policy (2009 unit)	LAW7019		√			√
Evaluating what works in regulation (2009 unit)	LAW7317							√
Expert evidence (2009 unit)	LAW7308	√	√

F

Unit name	Unit code
Fact finding in administrative proceedings	LAW7249	√	√
Family property	LAW7021	√
Forced migration and human rights (2009 unit)	LAW7066	√			√		√
Forensic family law	LAW7022	√	√
Forward with fairness: new labour law (2009 unit)	LAW7338	√		√						√

G

Unit name	Unit code
Goods and services tax (2009 unit)	LAW7262	√		√
Globalization and international economic law (2009 unit)	LAW7438	√
Graduate research paper (2009 unit)	LAW7078	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√

H

Unit name	Unit code
Health law and human rights (2009 unit)	LAW7431	√
Human rights advocacy: Australian law and practice	LAW7418	√			√
Human rights and intellectual property (2009 unit)	LAW7439	√			√	√
Human rights in the global economy	LAW7253	√			√		√

I

Unit name	Unit code
Indigenous rights and international law	LAW7260	√			√		√
Intellectual property and the internet (2009 unit)	LAW7244	√		√		√
International aspects of foreign investment	LAW7427	√		√			√
International aspects of intellectual property (2009 unit)	LAW7077	√		√		√	√
International banking and finance: law and practice	LAW7323	√		√			√
International copyright law	LAW7426	√		√		√	√
International criminal justice (2009 unit)	LAW7286	√			√		√
International environmental law	LAW7068	√		√			√
International human rights law and development	LAW7416	√			√		√
International human rights law and women (2009 unit)	LAW7311	√			√		√
International humanitarian law	LAW7218	√			√		√
International law and economic, cultural and social rights (2009 unit)	LAW7318	√			√		√
International refugee law and human rights	LAW7425	√			√		√
International taxation	LAW7027	√		√			√
International trade finance: law and practice (2009 unit)	LAW7025	√		√			√
International trade law (2009 unit)	LAW7028	√		√		√	√
Introduction to australian legal process (2009 unit)	LAW7436	√		√	√	√	√	√	√	√

J

Unit name	Unit code
Judicial law making and legal theory	LAW7093	√

L

Unit name	Unit code
Labour law for corporate lawyers	LAW7215	√	√	√						√
Labour organisations	LAW7298	√								√
Law and discrimination	LAW7129	√		√
Law of employee relations (2009 unit)	LAW7083	√	√	√				√	√	√
Law of the internet (2009 unit)	LAW7213	√	√			√	√
Law of workforce management (2009 unit)	LAW7441	√								√
Law of virtual worlds	LAW7417	√		√		√
Legal research and communication (2009 unit)	LAW7285	√
Legislative and judicial refinement of the income tax base	LAW7061	√		√
Local government contracts and procurement	LAW7424	√						√
Local government law (2009 unit)	LAW7087	√						√

M

Unit name	Unit code
Money laundering	LAW7220	√		√

N

Unit name	Unit code
Native title: courts, tribunals and communities	LAW7206	√			√
Negotiation and mediation skills (2009 unit)	LAW7251	√	√	√
Non-adversarial family law (2009 unit)	LAW7251	√

O

Unit name	Unit code
Overview of comparative banking law (2009 unit)	LAW7442	√		√
Overview of corporate law (2009 unit)	LAW7263	√		√
Occupational health and safety	LAW7037	√		√					√	√
Overview of intellectual property (2009 unit)	LAW7223	√	√	√		√
Overview of International Human Rights Law (2009 unit)	LAW7026	√			√		√			√

P

Unit name	Unit code
Patenting for commercialisation (2009 unit)	LAW7433	√		√		√
Patents for inventions (2009 unit)	LAW7119	√		√		√
Payment systems and banking law	LAW7092	√		√			√
Planning and environmental law practice	LAW7414	√
Planning law (2009 unit)	LAW7059	√						√
Post work choices law	LAW7338	√		√						√
Practical perspective on private international law	LAW7001	√	√	√			√
Principles of construction law (2009 unit)	LAW7332	√	√	√				√
Principles of environmental law (2009 unit)	LAW7420	√						√
Principles of privacy and freedom of information	LAW7076	√		√	√			√
Principles of taxation (2009 unit)	LAW7276	√		√
Privacy and information security law in cyberspace (2009 unit)	LAW7246	√		√			√
Protecting the rights of minorities, marginalised and vulnerable people (2009 unit)	LAW7330	√			√
Psychiatry, psychology and law	LAW7207	√
Public sector employment law	LAW7041	√								√

R

Unit name	Unit code
Regulating in a globalising world	LAW7316	√							√
Regulating the professions	LAW7335	√							√
Regulation of Australian water resources	LAW7325	√							√
Regulatory fundamentals: concepts, constructs and context (2009 unit)	LAW7313	√						√	√
Regulatory methods (2009 unit)	LAW7315	√						√	√

S

Unit name	Unit code
Selected topics in public international law	LAW7247	√			√		√
Sentencing	LAW7043	√					√
Shareholders’ remedies (2009 unit)	LAW7243	√		√
Stamp duties and other state revenue	LAW7044	√		√
Superannuation law and practice (2009 unit)	LAW7122	√		√						√
Superannuation, venture capital and managed investment schemes	LAW7256	√