To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS4010 Jessup Moot.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The ANU College of Law's internship course offers students an unparalleled opportunity to put their learning into action and carry out a law-based research project in a legal professional workplace. The course requires and develops both legal knowledge and a lawyer's approach to problem identification, analysis and recommendations.

Internship placements are available within a variety of Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory government departments, statutory bodies, community legal centres and other non-government organisations. Internships are also available under the supervision of a member of the ANU College of Law. In addition, students may arrange their own internship with a suitable organisation and professional supervisor, opening up the possibility to choose organisations and locations that best suit their future career interests. The professional supervisor of an intern must be a lawyer. Applications to complete self-arranged internships will be approved where they meet the requirements of the course.

Internships are available during each semester and during summer and winter term, enabling students to complete placements in remote locations in Australia or internationally. To assist in arranging placements, applications for an internship are generally made earlier than for other subjects.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ANIP3003 Australian National Internships Program Internship A or ANIP3005 Australian National Internship B, unless it is credited to a non-law degree.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The ANU College of Law's internship course offers students an unparalleled opportunity to put their learning into action and carry out a law-based research project in a legal professional workplace. The course requires and develops both legal knowledge and a lawyer's approach to problem identification, analysis and recommendations.

Internship placements are available within a variety of Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory government departments, statutory bodies, community legal centres and other non-government organisations. Internships are also available under the supervision of a member of the ANU College of Law. In addition, students may arrange their own internship with a suitable organisation and professional supervisor, opening up the possibility to choose organisations and locations that best suit their future career interests. The professional supervisor of an intern must be a lawyer. Applications to complete self-arranged internships will be approved where they meet the requirements of the course.

Internships are available during each semester and during summer and winter term, enabling students to complete placements in remote locations in Australia or internationally. To assist in arranging placements, applications for an internship are generally made earlier than for other subjects. Full details about the internship course and the application process are posted to the ANU College of Law current students' website.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS4230 Law Internship; or ANIP6503 Australian National Internships Program Internship A (Graduate) unless it is credited to a non-law degree; or ANIP6505 Australian National Internships Program B unless it is credited to a non-law degree.
Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• introduction defining the 'environment', 'ecologically sustainable development';
• the common law and environmental protection;
• environmental law in a federal system;
• role of local and state governments;
• statutory land-use planning and development control law;
• evironmental impact assessment law;
• bodiversity law;
• native vegetation law;
• pollution control law;
• a brief introduction to climate change and energy law;
• environmental litigation;
• enforcement of environmental law; and
• major projects law.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses,  and have completed LAWS2201 Administrative Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses, and have completed LAWS2201/LAWS6201 Administrative Law.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8415 Environmental Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Week 1

• Sem A: 5 Hrs | Mon 12-3pm | 6 Dec | Online - Zoom
• Sem B: 5 Hrs | Tue 12-5pm | 7 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem C: 5 Hrs | Wed 12-5pm | 8 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem D: 3 Hrs | Thu 12-5pm | 9 Dec | Online – Zoom

Week 2

• Sem A: 5 Hrs | Mon 12-5pm | 13 Dec | Online - Zoom
• Sem B: 5 Hrs | Tue 12-5pm | 14 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem C: 5 Hrs | Wed 12-5pm | 15 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem D: 3 Hrs | Thu 12-3pm | 16 Dec | Online – Zoom

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2202 Commonwealth Constitutional Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses, and have completed LAWS2202/LAWS6202 Commonwealth Constitutional Law.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8128 Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Week 1

• Sem A: 5 Hrs | Mon 12-3pm | 6 Dec | Online - Zoom
• Sem B: 5 Hrs | Tue 12-5pm | 7 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem C: 5 Hrs | Wed 12-5pm | 8 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem D: 3 Hrs | Thu 12-5pm | 9 Dec | Online – Zoom

Week 2

• Sem A: 5 Hrs | Mon 12-5pm | 13 Dec | Online - Zoom
• Sem B: 5 Hrs | Tue 12-5pm | 14 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem C: 5 Hrs | Wed 12-5pm | 15 Dec | Online – Zoom
• Sem D: 3 Hrs | Thu 12-3pm | 16 Dec | Online – Zoom

This course is designed to give students an opportunity to explore contemporary issues in Australian constitutional law. Issues will be examined both from a practical and theoretical dimension.

The contemporary topics examined in the course may change each year, to reflect constitutional law developments and the interest of participants.

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Readings/E brick will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission code.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8422 Intellectual Property.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

When normal peacetime relations between States break down and they resort to the use of force, it is the law of armed conflict that determines which acts of hostility are lawful. The idea that law should regulate what is done in war may seem strange, but it is nowadays well accepted. Accordingly, the law determines which targets may be attacked and which classes of person and object must be protected. Some persons and objects are specially protected, and it is vitally important that all involved understand what these rules provide.

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that hostilities undertaken by members of the Australian Defence Force are conducted in accordance with applicable legal rules. Participants who have completed this course will be able to form an informed view of whether events, involving ADF personnel and otherwise, accord with the relevant law.

The other topic of similar importance comprises the principles and rules that determine which weapons and methods of warfare can lawfully be used during an armed conflict. Weapons law places important obligations on States, and the course will show how these can be complied with. The course will, in connection with targeting and weaponry, unpack and explain the principles on which these two elements of the law are based, and will then show how specific rules of conduct are based on those principles. 

The course will consist of a series of lectures that collectively cover the relevant topics. At suitable intervals during the course, the participants will go into workgroups in order to discuss and solve pre-set problems linked to the substance of the preceding lecture. The solutions of each work group are then presented in plenary and are discussed. The purpose of this approach is to reinforce understanding of each topic in turn.

An internationally renowned international humanitarian law and weapons law scholar who has written authoritative monographs on both subjects, Dr Bill Boothby, has kindly agreed to visit Australia to teach this course.

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

Y Dinstein, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict, Third Edition (2016) CUP. (Get in contact with Harry Hartog as soon as you have enrolled into this course to obtain the relevant book/s).

W H Boothby, Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict, Second Edition (2016) OUP.

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

These texts are available at the Co-op Bookshop on campus. Contact the Co-op Bookshop by telephone (02 6249 6244) or on-line at http://www.coop-bookshop.com.au/.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of New Technologies Law ; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; or
• Master of International Law & Diplomacy (MINLD) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for appropriate permission..

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS4248 Selected Topics in Australian-United States Comparative Law (Alabama) and LAWS8457 Selected Topics in Australian-United States Comparative Law (ANU).

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Although the ideas of cyber warfare and of computer network attack are very new, there is growing awareness of the significant issues they raise in the modern world.

The Australian Government is not alone in acknowledging the threat of cyber attacks and the need to develop cyber security capability. Accordingly, there is a strong interest, particularly among Canberra communities, in anticipating potential legal issues that might arise in cyber warfare and in consolidating knowledge as to the applicability of existing rules of international law in this particular context.

An internationally renowned international humanitarian law and weapons law scholar who has recently participated in a central role in the preparation of the Tallinn Manual on the Law of Cyber Warfare, Dr Bill Boothby has kindly agreed to visit Australia to teach this course.

The course which will identify and assess the extent to which norms of existing law can properly be applied to the peculiarities of cyber operations. 

The course will draw on elements of general international law, the international law that governs the recourse to armed force and international humanitarian law, all in the specific context of cyber warfare.

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, 2013, Cambridge University Press

Or, in the alternative

Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, Cambridge University Press in 2017. (Get in contact with Harry Hartog as soon as you have enrolled into this course to obtain the relevant book/s).

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of New Technologies Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; or
• Master of International Law & Diplomacy (MINLD) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission code.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This course is designed to introduce students to environmental law.

In doing so, the course not only provides students with an understanding of general legal principles, methods and institutions but also provides them with a framework for understanding and analysing environmental law. This will enable them to go on and study the specialised courses offered in the environmental law stream.

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Students will be able to access a range of relevant environmental law textbooks (as eBooks) and other electronic materials made available via the ANU Law library, ANU scholarly databases and relevant websites. Readings will be listed on the Wattle site for this course and made available 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the course.

It is not recommended that students purchase a hard copy of an environmental law textbook. However, for convenient and unlimited access to an environmental law textbook students may choose to purchase their own eBook copy of one of the leading environmental law textbooks. Further detailed advice on this will be provided as the Wattle site opens 2 weeks prior to the course commencing. 

Assumed Knowledge

Students who have completed an Environmental Law elective course within an LLB or JD degree from an Australian University should not take this course.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission code.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

• give students a clinical experience in a developing country, so as to see first hand the legal and social justice issues arising in a developing country.
• guide and support students in identifying, developing and applying practical legal skills in Law & Development. 
• develop students' critical understanding of the role of lawyers in providing access to justice in a developing country.
• contextualise the study of law and student learning in the wide range of other law courses. 
• encourage, promote and validate student aspirations to promote access to justice and equality before the law specifically in relation to disadvantaged people and communities. 
• encourage students to critically consider the effect of the law and its ability to deliver and or facilitate justice in a developing country.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

 Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .
You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS6301 Law and Development Clinic or LAWS6301 Myanmar Law Clinic

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• give students a clinical experience in a developing country, so as to see first hand the legal and social justice issues arising in a developing country.
• guide and support students in identifying, developing and applying practical legal skills in Law & Development. 
• develop students' critical understanding of the role of lawyers in providing access to justice in a developing country.
• contextualise the study of law and student learning in the wide range of other law courses. 
• encourage, promote and validate student aspirations to promote access to justice and equality before the law specifically in relation to disadvantaged people and communities. 
• encourage students to critically consider the effect of the law and its ability to deliver and or facilitate justice in a developing country.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS4301 Myanmar Law Clinic.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Anyone who thought that the end of the Cold War would bring about a period of global peace and stability has suffered a series of rude awakenings throughout the intervening period. There have been, and continue to be, wars between states, civil wars within states and terrorist outrages that have shaken the very foundations of the nation state. Modern conflict is characterised by new weapons, new technologies, new environments in which to fight and new kinds of participants in the hostilities. The emerging, increasingly fragmented and rapidly changing notion of conflict challenges, and is challenged by, a body of international law that seems to have difficulty in adapting to these new developments.

This course will tackle the most pressing and controversial contemporary issues by looking at the problems that are posed, by considering the legal arrangements that are currently in place and by assessing whether these arrangements are adequate. The topics have been selected to enable students to grapple with important matters of international concern that are currently challenging policy makers, jurists, academics and others at the highest levels. The aim is to introduce students to strategic level decision-making with all its complexities and ambiguities.

The course is structured into ten lectures, taking a distinct topic within each lecture. In the associated seminars, course members will work through practical problems in sub-groups thereafter presenting and discussing their proposed solutions in the plenary setting. Some background understanding of international law as it affects conflict would be a desirable advantage, but the course can and will be taught on the basis of no prior knowledge.

The intended learning outcomes include the ability to think, discuss and formulate solutions at the strategic level, an understanding of the challenges posed by conflict in all its forms, an appreciation of the interaction of not always consistent regimes of international law and a recognition of the issues that arise from emerging technologies and ways of pursuing conflict goals.

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

W H Boothby, Conflict Law, 2014, TMC Asser Press ISBN 978-94-6265-001-5; 978-94-6265-002-2 (eBook).

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of New Technologies Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; or
• Master of International Law and Diplomacy (MINLD) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of New Technologies Law (CNTL);

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission code.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• law and justice in fragile or post-conflict states;
• the role of land and natural resources law in state-building contexts;
• legal pluralism and the relationship between the state and private systems of governance.
• International issues include:
• the 'right to development' in international law;
• the role of multilateral development organisations- including UN agencies, the WTO and the World Bank - in the international legal order; and
• the transplantation and harmonisation of law in developing countries through investment treaties and international or regional legal frameworks.
• The course will provide an introduction to key theories and sources of literature, and will draw on expert guest lecturers, on these disparate topics. Common threads will include:
• exploration of potential correlations and causative effects involving law and social change in a development context
• exploration of analytical frameworks to enable adaptation of legal models to a development context.

Textbooks:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Readings/E brick will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Master of Laws (MLLM) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission code.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

1. some of the fundamental features of the legal institutions that generate laws (the courts and the Parliament);
2. sources of Australian law in addition to case law and legislation (including the Australian Constitution, customary law and international law); and
3. the historical and social forces that have shaped and continue to shape the law-making process and the legal system.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB)

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• the constitutional and legislative framework for Australian public law
• major concepts and themes in Australian public law, including federalism, separation of powers, constitutionalism, representative democracy, rule of law, and liberalism
• the Legislature, including the structure of Australian legislatures, parliamentary supremacy, and express and implied constitutional limitations on legislative power
• the Executive, including the structure of Executive government, executive power, and liability of the Crown
• the Judiciary, including the constitutional separation of judicial power, and the administrative law implications of judicial separation
• constitutional change and evolution, including constitutional amendment.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Administrative Law examines the legal framework for controlling decision-making by Commonwealth, State and local government decision-makers in Australia. It focuses on the legal restraints upon government, and the role those restraints play in maintaining government accountability. The role played by courts, tribunals and Ombudsman and the opportunities available to the public to question government activity is examined. The course covers the core administrative law material required for admission purposes and for work in the area of law and government. The following topics will be covered:

• what accountability means in the context of the administrative state';
• changing patterns of 'governance' in contemporary Australia;
• the historical and constitutional context of Australian administrative law;
• the administrative law framework for review of government decision-making;
• concepts and principles of merits and judicial review;
• jurisdiction and remedies available from courts and tribunals, and the principles of standing;
• other administrative law avenues including information access rights and ombudsmen; and
• the impact of human rights legislation on Australian administrative law.

Textbooks:

Precribed Texts:

R Creyke et al, Control of Government Action: Text, Cases and Commentary (6th ed, LexisNexis, 2022)

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB); and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; and have completed LAWS1205 Australian Public Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• forms of business association, including partnership;
• incorporation and the concept of separate legal personality;
• the corporate constitution;
• membership of the corporation and share capital;
• corporate contracting;
• duties and liabilities of directors and officers;
• basic features of the management of companies;
• shareholders' remedies;
• company credit and security arrangements; and
• winding up.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204 Contracts.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204 Contracts.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• access to justice
• the importance of process
• mediation procedures
• confidentiality and power imbalances in dispute resolution
• when and how to commence proceedings in court
• class actions
• urgent applications
• gathering evidence.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1203 Torts and have completed LAWS1204 Contracts.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed 72 units of LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed 72 units of LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed VCUG3005/VCPG6005 Beyond Chaos.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. For further information on the application process, please see the VC Course offerings. 

Successful applicants will be provided with the appropriate permission after the application process has concluded.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• Jurisdiction: When domestic courts can hear cases that involve parties and property from outside the territory of the court.
• Choice of Law: Which law is applicable when a case has connections with a number of different jurisdictions. In particular, this course considers contract, family and tort disputes that involve a variety of jurisdictions.
• Enforcement of Judgements: How to enforce a court judgement or arbitral award from another jurisdiction in local courts.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8144 Conflict of Laws.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This course introduces students to the legal systems and legal traditions of South East Asia in the context of their plural societies, and considers the relationship between law, governance and development in the region over the span of modern history. Among the topics covered in the course include:

• pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial law, including customary and religious law;

• the influence of legal transplants, state-building, and development initiatives;

• critical consideration of theoretical frameworks used to make sense of the diversity in the region;

• key issues relating to constitutionalism and nation-building;

• domestic challenges such as ethnic and sectarian conflict;

• the role of law in socio-economic change in the region.

Textbooks:

Prescibed Texts:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Readings/E brick will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8594 Law and Society in South East Asia.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The ANU College of Law's internship course offers students an unparalleled opportunity to put their learning into action and carry out a law-based research project in a legal professional workplace. The course requires and develops both legal knowledge and a lawyer's approach to problem identification, analysis and recommendations.

Internship placements are available within a variety of Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory government departments, statutory bodies, community legal centres and other non-government organisations. Internships are also available under the supervision of a member of the ANU College of Law. In addition, students may arrange their own internship with a suitable organisation and professional supervisor, opening up the possibility to choose organisations and locations that best suit their future career interests. The professional supervisor of an intern must be a lawyer. Applications to complete self-arranged internships will be approved where they meet the requirements of the course.

Internships are available during each semester and during summer and winter term, enabling students to complete placements in remote locations in Australia or internationally. To assist in arranging placements, applications for an internship are generally made earlier than for other subjects.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ANIP3003 Australian National Internships Program Internship A or ANIP3005 Australian National Internship B, unless it is credited to a non-law degree.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

• information technology and intellectual property;
• censorship;
• privacy;
• computer crime and evidence; and
• e-commerce and IT contracts.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8445 Information Technology Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204 Contracts; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204/LAWS6104 Contracts.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8154 Competition Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB)and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2250 International Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2250/LAWS6250 International Law.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8183 Advanced Principles of International Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The Clinical Youth Law Program is an elective course. Students who have completed 48 units of LAWS courses are eligible to enrol and places are allocated by quality of application and if necessary ballot.

This is a clinical program based in a community legal practice environment. Students participate in the Youth Law Centre, a non-profit legal service for ACT youth aged 12-25 years. While analysing the various roles that lawyers can play, students will focus on extending legal assistance, social justice and reform - particularly in relation to youth legal needs in the ACT.

The course objectives are to:

• contextualise the study of law and student learning in a wide range of other law courses;
• guide and support students in identifying, developing and applying ethical legal practice skills;
• develop students' critical understanding of legal practice approaches, the roles of lawyers in relation to individual clients and social justice issues; and
• encourage, promote and validate student aspirations to promote access to justice and equality before the law.

The course also explores issues such as:

• the concept of ‘reflective practice';
• the links between the legal framework of legal practice and operating routines that apply to provision of all legal services (duties to client, confidentiality, conflict of interest);
• legal and non-legal problems - implications for practice/service provision of an appreciation of the relevant services and the meshing of non-legal issues;
• interviewing routine - difference between legal information and legal advice;
• legal practice approaches - ‘reactive', ‘proactive', ‘preventative', ‘activist'; and
• tailoring service models to client needs.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The Community Law Clinical Program is a 6 unit elective course.

This is a clinical program based in a community legal practice environment. During the course students work for one full day a week at Canberra community Law where they provide legal information and undertake casework under the supervision of solicitors.

The course objectives are to: 

• contextualise the study of law and student learning in a wide range of other law courses;
• guide and support students in identifying, developing and applying ethical legal practice skills;
• develop students' critical understanding of legal practice approaches, the roles of lawyers in relation to individual clients and social justice issues; and
• encourage, promote and validate student aspirations to promote access to justice and equality before the law.

Course topics include:

• introduction to public interest law;
• professional responsibilities;
• legal practice skills - legal writing, interviewing, casework skills, advising;
• substantive law in relation to tenancy, Social Security and Disability Discrimination; and
• law Reform.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

A participant who has successfully completed this course should have a clear understanding of:

• the conventional and customary law obligations of States in respect of refugees and other asylum-seekers and of the rights of applicants
• the protection mechanisms, both national and international, that operate for the immediate and long-term protection of refuge-seekers and the policy considerations that affect contemporary State attitudes to such groups
• the legal problems affecting national interpretations and application of refugee concepts, with particular emphasis on definitional problems, status determination procedures and non-refoulement.

The course will focus mainly on the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, supplemented by additional materials that assist in the interpretation, construction and critique of these instruments. Particular attention will be paid to national implementation of refugee protection and status determination procedures in Australia, comparing and contrasting the approach taken, where appropriate, with that of other nations.

Addressed will be the origins of the international system of protection, its limitations and deficiencies; the role and relevance of UNHCR; definitional problems; exclusion and cessation of refugee status; core concepts of protection (including complementary protection), asylum, non-refoulement, penalization and refugee rights; asylum, temporary refuge, temporary protection and burden-sharing; durable solutions; protracted refugee situations; status determination procedures; detention; ‘deflection' techniques; other categories such as ‘environmental' refugees and internally displaced persons; and a consideration of possible future directions for refugee law.

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. This information is correct at the time of publication.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2201 Administrative Law and  LAWS2250 International Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2201/LAWS6201 Administrative Law and LAWS2250/LAWS6250 International Law

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8471 Refugee Law or LAWS8252 International Refugee Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The course aims to introduce students to a cultural study of law, by exposing students to the humanistic intellectual tradition within the liberal arts. The course will be interdisciplinary. The topics and readings will be centred on the theme of the ‘Foundations of Law’. The theme bears an allusion to the first-year compulsory course that all law students at the ANU have to take: the ‘Foundations of Australian Law’. However, in this elective course, we are interested in a different kind of foundation. We will interrogate not the foundations of any particular legal system, but the foundations of law itself. Whereas the ‘Foundations of Australian Law’ equips students with the foundational skills of legal reasoning, this elective course invites students to take a step back to consider and interrogate the foundational mythologies of law. We will explore the ‘Foundations of Law’ through the humanistic disciplines of classics, literature, philosophy and theology, which present different modes and means of inquiring into the assumptions and aspirations that we ascribe to law.

Textbooks:

Precribed Texts:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Readings/E brick will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS8480 Law and the Humanities.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The course aims include to: 

• Guide and support students in identifying, developing and applying practical legal skills in environmental and planning law. 
• Develop students’ critical understanding of legal practice approaches, the role of lawyers in relation to individual clients and environmental law issues.
• Contextualise the study of law, particularly environmental law and student learning in the wide range of other law courses. 
• Encourage, promote and validate student aspirations to promote access to justice and equality before the law specifically in relation to community needs to exercise their rights pursuant to environmental law both at local and Federal levels. 

Encourage students to critically consider the effect of the law and its ability: 

• to deliver improved environmental outcomes and 
• to provide adequate recourse for the community to be heard on public interest environmental issues. 

The course provides clinical placement at the EDO ACT for between 8-10 students each semester. Attendance requirements include an orientation workshop, onsite participation at the EDO office one day a week, participation in weekly tutorials (reviewing relevant substantive areas of law and legal and social issues relating to the environmental law (ACT and Federal) and marked assessment pieces. 

Assessment requirements: onsite assessment, tutorial participation and preparation & presentation of a written project or seminar/forum. 

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Students enrolled in Bachelor of Laws (Honours) programs from 1 January 2015 have the option to compete for places in Supervised Research Paper.  This course will enable a student to complete, over one semester, a 12 unit course where students write a 13000 word supervised research paper that will take the place of two standard one semester electives in the LLBHons program. Students will organise supervisors according to any supervised allocation process that is required in the semester before the commencement of Supervised Research Paper.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses.

This course must be taken in a student's ultimate or penultimate semester of study. To be eligible to enrol in this course, a student must have an average mark of 70% or more achieved in all law courses.

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The International Law Clinical Program gives students interested in International Law an experience of the practical application of International Law.

The International Law Clinical Program applies students' knowledge of international law and drafting and research skills to contemporary international law projects. 

The main focus of the Clinical Program is responding to projects initiated by the Convenor and students working collaboratively. 

The Clinical Program aims to project the knowledge and skills of the ANU College of Law generally and in International Law in particular, and to enhance appreciation of International Law among influential Australian Government and NGO communities.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2250 International Law.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS6302 International Law Clinic   

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

he Prison Legal Literacy Clinic offers students a unique opportunity to work with detainees in a prison setting at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC). The AMC is the Australian Capital Territory's only adult prison, accommodating all persons who have been sentenced to full-time imprisonment or remanded in custody by ACT Courts.

The Prison Legal Literacy Clinic was developed from the highly successful ANU College of Law, Law Reform and Social Justice Prison Legal Literacy Program which commenced in 2010. 

Students in the Prison Legal Literacy Clinic will attend the AMC to deliver six legal literacy sessions for a cohort of detainees chosen by AMC management. These sessions provide legal information only, rather than legal advice. The first session focuses on establishing mutually agreed rules and boundaries, developing respectful relationships and identifying areas of legal interest to detainees that will become the topics for the remaining five sessions. These topics are as diverse as detainees interests but may involve laws and legal process relating to criminal law, evidence, sentencing, appeals, parole, administrative law, human rights law and tort law. Many topics require students to convey an understanding of the democratic process of law making, the federal system of law as well as the hierarchy and jurisdiction of courts and tribunals. The emphasis is on students working as a team to develop informative, engaging and interactive sessions. Student are required to undertake significant research in each week of the session delivery phase of the course, often in areas of law that are unfamiliar to them. Detainees who complete the program are presented with a certificate in the final session acknowledge their efforts.

Students will be provided with Security Awareness Training by the AMC and supported before and during the delivery stage of the program by the course convenor who will be present at, and guide the delivery of, each of the Legal Literacy Sessions at the AMC.

Following the delivery of six sessions (in the first 6 weeks of the semester) students are required to submit a reflective assessment. Students will then use the remaining six weeks of the semester to write a research paper on a legal topic they have identified from their experience with detainees within the AMC. Students will be supported to develop and hone their research papers in workshops that will be held in the second half of the semester.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1206 Criminal Law and Procedure.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS6304 Prison Legal Literacy Clinic   

Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This on country intensive course, delivered through a collaboration between the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the ANU College of Law, aims to equip students with knowledge to critically assess law’s history, characteristics and impacts from the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Central to the course is the examination of the adequacy of the current state of Australian legal education, legal practice, law and justice in relation to First Nations peoples, with a view to possibilities for reform.

The course acknowledges the multidimensional roles of law and explores connections between law, culture and identity and between law, legitimacy and resources. Additional issues include the roles of legal education, legal practice and the legal system concerning how lawfulness and justice are constructed and performed. The course incorporates consideration of substantive areas of law such as legal ethics, property, criminal and civil law.

The course presents principles and tools to support reappraisal and future leadership to better address legal and societal dimensions of justice, rights and empowerment for First Nations peoples.

The course covers issues relating to Indigenous world views, historical and contemporary Indigenous experiences of settler-colonialism, the phenomena of legacy relationships and legacy systems, and concepts of cultural safety and decolonisation. Students will critically assess the implications of issues for themselves, relating to Indigenous peoples, and relating to the future of law and justice in Australia. As such, the course builds on concepts introduced in Lawyers, Justice and Ethics, Australian Public Law, International Law and Property Law.

Students will complete orientation workshops (max 6 hours) prior to departure, complete the on country intensive (5 days), and submit reflective assessments. Students will have six weeks after completing the intensive to write a research paper on an aspect of decolonising legal education, legal practice, law and justice in Australia and present their findings.

Students must apply to undertake this course. Please go to Law Professional Experience for application information. 

Textbooks:

Prescribed Texts:

There is no prescribed textbook for this course. Readings/E brick will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2204 Property.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS6304 Prison Legal Literacy Clinic  
Enrolment is limited with selection based on a competitive process. Application information can be located on the ANU College of Law Website .

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

• Bachelor of Laws (ALLB) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204 Contracts, LAWS1205 Australian Public Law, LAWS2201 Administrative law, LAWS2204 Property, LAWS2250 International Law; or
• Juris Doctor (MJD)and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1204/6104 Contracts, LAWS1205/6105 Australian Public Law, LAWS2201/6201 Administrative law, LAWS2204/6204 Property, LAWS2250/6250 International Law;

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD)

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201/LAWS6101 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201/LAWS6101 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201/LAWS6101 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be currently completing LAWS1201/LAWS6101 Foundations of Australian Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Building on Australian Public Law, this course aims to deepen student understanding of key aspects of the Australian administrative justice system. Administrative law concerns the legal rules and institutions which seek to keep the ‘governors’ in society (principally, decision-makers in the executive arm of government) accountable. It encompasses both judicial and non-judicial modes of accountability (eg administrative tribunals, the ombudsman, and legislation providing for access to information and limiting the purposes for which government can use information). Administrative law can be conceptualised as the legal regulation of the exercise of public (as opposed to ‘private’) power. More specifically, this course will consider:

Different ways to think about the reach of administrative law in the context of the changing nature of contemporary governance;

The function and scope of judicial review of administrative action, with particular attention to the constitutional, statutory and common law sources of judicial review jurisdiction.

Many of the important legal principles associated with the availability of judicial review remedies, the grounds on which administrative decisions may be judicially reviewed, and ‘standing’ to bring judicial review actions;

Statutory attempts by Parliaments to restrict judicial review and the extent to which judicial review is constitutionally entrenched;

The concept of merit review, with particular attention to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal;

The role played by non-adjudicative accountability mechanism with particular attention to the operation of public sector Ombudsman and Freedom of Information legislation;

The role played by administrative law in the context of important constitutional principles such as the separation of powers and the rule of law;

The historical and social context in which Australian administrative law has developed.

Textbooks:

Precribed Texts:

R Creyke et al, Control of Government Action: Text, Cases and Commentary (6th ed, LexisNexis, 2022)

This information is correct at the time of publication and although we endeavour to pre-empt any planned new editions; the class summary will provide the final textbook edition confirmation.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a;

• Juris Doctor (MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS1205/LAWS6105 Australian Public Law.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.