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Environmental Law Clinic
This course requires an application process, please refer to the information on Programs and Courses.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
International Law Clinic
This course requires an application process, please refer to the information on Programs and Courses.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Prison Legal Literacy Clinic
This course requires an application process, please refer to the information on Programs and Courses.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Juris Doctor Capstone Project
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Legislation and Legislative Drafting
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Competition Law
Prescribed Text
- Adrian Coorey, Australian Competition Law – The Comprehensive Guide (Volume 1) (Jurisprudentia, Sydney, 2024).
Required Legislation
- Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
Recommended Reading
- Student Guide Card, Competition Law I (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
- Student Guide Card, Competition Law II (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
- Student Guide Card, Competition Law IIII (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
The Student Guide Cards are available at https://www.jurisprudentia.com.au/.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Environmental and Sustainability Law
Textbook:
A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Sentencing
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Health Law and Bioethics
A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Business and Human Rights
Required Reading
- 2011 United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (no prescribed text).
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Law, Gender Identities and Sexualities
- A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Chinese Law and Society
Recommended reading
- Chen, Jianfu. Chinese Law : Context and Transformation. Revised and Expanded Edition (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2016)
A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Graduate Research Unit
This course requires an application process, please refer to the information on Programs and Courses.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Greater China
- A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Media Law
Textbook:
A full list of readings will be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Labour Law
Prescribed Texts:
- Joellen Riley Munton, Labour Law: An Introduction to the Law of Work (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- A full list of readings/E brick will also be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
Required Legislation:
- Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). Students should download this statute from the Federal Register of Legislation. There is no need to purchase a copy of the statute.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Law Internship
This course requires an application process, please refer to the information on Programs and Courses.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Consumer Protection
Prescribed Text
- Adrian Coorey, Australian Consumer Law – The Comprehensive Guide (Jurisprudentia, Sydney, 2021)
Required Legislation
- Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) Sch 2 (Australian Consumer Law)
Recommended Reading
- Student Guide Card, Consumer Law I (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
- Student Guide Card, Consumer Law II (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
- Student Guide Card, Consumer Law IIII (Jurisprudentia, Sydney 2024)
The Student Guide Cards are available at https://www.jurisprudentia.com.au/.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.
Climate Law
Prescribed Texts:
- Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, International Climate Change Law (Oxford University Press, 2017).
A full list of readings/E brick will also be made available on Wattle two weeks prior to the course commencement date.
For an overview of this course, learning outcomes, indicative assessment and workload requirements, please refer to Programs and Courses. The class summary will be published on Programs and Courses two weeks prior to the teaching start date.
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.