Legal Practice

Master of Laws (Legal Practice)

This program is designed for those students who have completed their Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the ANU or CDU and wish to consolidate that vocational study with additional postgraduate study to form a masters degree with a Legal Practice focus.


Convenor: Mr Gary Tamsitt

Program offered: Master of Laws (Legal Practice) (7312)

Program Requirements: 
The master degree requires courses totalling 48 units made up as follows:
- Unspecified status for 24 units from the completed ANU GDLP;
- a minimum of 12 units from the following Legal Practice courses, and;
- other courses to a maximum of 12 units from the postgraduate level courses offered by the ANU College of Law excluding Fundamentals / Principles and Legal Workshop courses.

Duration:
Students have 7 years in which to apply for credit in the LLM programs from the GDLP. The time to complete the new program may be one semester full-time or up to 4 years from the commencement of the Master of Laws program.

The following courses are offered in the LLM (Legal Practice). Please note, not all courses may be offered every year:

6 unit courses:
Advocacy	LAWS8132
Commercial Drafting	LAWS8131
Commonwealth Compensation Law	LAWS8156
Conflict of Laws	LAWS8144
Dispute Management	LAWS8116
Environmental Dispute Management	LAWS8278
Environmental Litigation	LAWS8187
Evidence Under the Uniform Act , Principles of	LAWS8150
Federal Litigation	LAWS8143
Human Rights Litigation	LAWS8155
Legislation and Legislative Drafting	LAWS8104
Special Topics in Legal Practice: Negotiation	LAWS8157
12 unit courses:
Graduate Research Unit (Legal Practice)	LAWS8308 (Masters only)

Information Pack

For timetable information - click here

For all Postgraduate Law courses - click here

For Census Dates, visit the individual course page on Study@ANU

Assessment: Courses are weighted according to class hours and assessment load.

• 6 unit courses - approximately 26 hours with an essay of 6,000 - 8,000 words or an equivalent assessment package
• 12 unit courses - approximately 52 contact hours, with an essay of 15,000 words or an equivalent assessment package

Students must rely on the Approved Means of Assessment, which will be posted to the course homepage on the ANU Law website, prior to the commencement of the course.

The ANU College of Law has recently changed its procedures in relation to students who have completed their Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and want to move into the Master of Laws programs.

Students must now lodge a new application to apply for admission into the Master of Laws programs.

Students wanting to do the Master of Laws (Legal Practice) must lodge a direct application at the ANU Admissions Office. The application form is available here.

Students wanting to do any of the other Master of Laws programs - Master of Laws, Master of Laws (International Law), Master of Laws (Environmental Law) or Master of Laws (Government & Commercial Law), must now apply to the Universities Admission Centre.

Students will continue to recieve 24 units of credit in the Master of Laws (Legal Practice) and 12 units of credit in the Master of Laws, Master of Laws (International Law), Master of Laws (Environmental Law) or Master of Laws (Government & Commercial Law) programs.

In addition, students can now apply to have their GDLP conferred and will still be eligible for the same amount of credit in the Master of Laws program they select as previously.

Information updated: 8January 2009