Subjects 2008 by specialist area
Each year more than 120 subjects are offered within the Melbourne Law Masters. In 2008, we will offer over 150 subjects, providing an extensive subject choice across many specialist areas. Subjects are chosen to provide students with a broad range of expertise and the curriculum is determined under the guidance of a network of advisory boards drawn from the judiciary, leading law firms, industry and the Bar.
- Asian Law
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Civil Society and the Law
- Commercial Law in Asia
- Comparative Companies Law in Asia
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- International and Comparative Labour Law
- Islam and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Law and Development
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Banking and Financial Services Law
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Derivatives Law and Practice (formerly Derivatives Regulation)
- Equity and Commerce
- Financial Services Law (formerly Licensing Financial Services Providers)
- International Corporate Finance: Negotiating and Documenting OTC Derivatives and Repos
- Law of Secured Finance (formerly Securities for Corporate Lending)
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Principles of Corporate Finance
- Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Project Finance
- Regulation and the Law
- Superannuation Law
- Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises A)
- Commercial and Corporate Law
- Accounting for Commercial Lawyers
- Advanced Construction Claims
- Advanced Litigation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anti-Discrimination Law at Work (formerly Discrimination and Dismissal Law)
- Avoiding and Managing Construction Disputes (formerly part of Avoidance, Management and Resolution of Construction Disputes)
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Cartels and Competition Law
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Commercial Law in Asia
- Company Takeovers
- Comparative Companies Law in Asia
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Construction Contracts
- Construction Dispute Resolution (formerly Construction Arbitration and Litigation)
- Construction Risk: Allocation and Insurance
- Construction: Principles into Practice
- Contract Damages
- Copyright Law
- Corporate Criminal Law and Regulation
- Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties
- Corporate Insolvency and Reconstruction
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
- Current Application of Legal Remedies (formerly Remedies in Construction Disputes)
- Current Issues in Tax
- Current Issues in Tax Avoidance
- Defamation Law
- Derivatives Law and Practice (formerly Derivatives Regulation)
- Designs Law and Practice
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Dispute Resolution in the Cyberspace Era
- Economics for Competition Lawyers
- Electronic Commerce Law
- Enforcing Competition Law
- Environmental Law: Science and Regulation
- Equity and Commerce
- Event Management Law
- Film and Television Law: Production, Financing and Distribution
- Financial Services Law (formerly Licensing Financial Services Providers)
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- Global Financial Order: IMF and World Bank
- Goods and Services Tax Principles
- Governing Not-for-Profit Organisations
- Infrastructure Delivery A: Principles and Practice
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- International and Comparative Patent Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Construction Law
- International Corporate Finance: Negotiating and Documenting OTC Derivatives and Repos
- International Environmental Law
- International Issues in Intellectual Property
- International Petroleum Transactions (formerly International Oil and Gas Transactions)
- International Sports Labour Law (formerly Sports Labour Law)
- International Taxation: Principles and Structure (formerly Australian International Taxation)
- International Trade Law
- Interpretation and Validity of Patent Specifications
- Jurisprudential Perspectives on Tax Law
- Law and Economics of Access Regulation
- Law Firm Strategy and Structure
- Law of Secured Finance (formerly Securities for Corporate Lending)
- Licensing Law and Technology Transfer
- Managing Clients
- Maritime Law
- Market Power and Competition Law
- Native Title Law and Practice
- Patent Law (formerly Patents and Trade Secrets)
- Patent Practice
- Payment Matters in Construction Projects
- Principles of Corporate Finance
- Principles of WTO Law (formerly World Trade Organization: Basic Principles)
- Privacy and Data Protection (formerly Privacy Law)
- Privacy and the Media (formerly Privacy, Celebrity and the Media)
- Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Project Finance
- Proof in Litigation
- Regulation and the Law
- Rights and Liabilities in Construction (formerly Construction Claims)
- Sports Law: Entities and Governance
- Superannuation Law
- Tax Treaties
- Taxation Litigation
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income B
- Taxation of Financial Instruments
- Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises A)
- Trade Mark Practice
- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems
- Trial Advocacy
- United States Corporate and International Tax
- United States Securities Regulation
- United States Sports Law (formerly Introduction to United States Sports Law)
- Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law
- Value Added Tax: Australia's GST in a Global Context (formerly Advanced Goods and Services Tax)
- WTO Dispute Settlement (formerly WTO Disputes Resolution and Case Law)
- Communications Law
- Art and Law
- Copyright Law
- Defamation Law
- Electronic Commerce Law
- Film and Television Law: Production, Financing and Distribution
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property Law
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- Privacy and Data Protection (formerly Privacy Law)
- Privacy and the Media (formerly Privacy, Celebrity and the Media)
- Competition Law
- Cartels and Competition Law
- Competition Law Overview
- Economics for Competition Lawyers
- Enforcing Competition Law
- Law and Economics of Access Regulation
- Managerial Economics
- Market Power and Competition Law
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Construction Law
- Advanced Construction Claims
- Avoiding and Managing Construction Disputes (formerly part of Avoidance, Management and Resolution of Construction Disputes)
- Construction Contracts
- Construction Dispute Resolution (formerly Construction Arbitration and Litigation)
- Construction Law Program
- Construction Risk: Allocation and Insurance
- Construction: Principles into Practice
- Current Application of Legal Remedies (formerly Remedies in Construction Disputes)
- Event Management Law
- Infrastructure Delivery A: Principles and Practice
- International Construction Law
- Payment Matters in Construction Projects
- Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Project Finance
- Regulating Working Conditions (formerly Labour Relations Law)
- Rights and Liabilities in Construction (formerly Construction Claims)
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Corporations and Securities Law
- Accounting for Commercial Lawyers
- Company Takeovers
- Comparative Companies Law in Asia
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Corporate Criminal Law and Regulation
- Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties
- Corporate Insolvency and Reconstruction
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
- Derivatives Law and Practice (formerly Derivatives Regulation)
- Electronic Commerce Law
- Equity and Commerce
- Financial Services Law (formerly Licensing Financial Services Providers)
- Governing Not-for-Profit Organisations
- Law of Secured Finance (formerly Securities for Corporate Lending)
- Principles of Corporate Finance
- Project Finance
- Sports Law: Entities and Governance
- Superannuation Law
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income B
- Taxation of Financial Instruments
- Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises A)
- United States Securities Regulation
- Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Advanced Litigation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anti-Discrimination Law at Work (formerly Discrimination and Dismissal Law)
- Avoiding and Managing Construction Disputes (formerly part of Avoidance, Management and Resolution of Construction Disputes)
- Common Law Constitutionalism
- Constitutional Litigation
- Dispute Resolution in the Cyberspace Era
- Expert Evidence
- Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy
- Medical Litigation
- Proof in Litigation
- Taxation Litigation
- Trial Advocacy
- What is it that Judges do? An Analysis of the Major Theories of Adjudication
- WTO Dispute Settlement (formerly WTO Disputes Resolution and Case Law)
- e-Business Law
- Dispute Resolution in the Cyberspace Era
- e-Health Law
- Electronic Commerce Law
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- Privacy and Data Protection (formerly Privacy Law)
- Energy and Resources Law
- Construction Risk: Allocation and Insurance
- Environmental Law: Science and Regulation
- Infrastructure Delivery A: Principles and Practice
- International Environmental Law
- International Petroleum Transactions (formerly International Oil and Gas Transactions)
- International Trade Law
- Native Title Law and Practice
- Payment Matters in Construction Projects
- Project Finance
- Regulation and the Law
- Government Law
- Administrative Law in an Age of Rights
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Common Law Constitutionalism
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Regional Integration
- Constitutional Design
- Constitutional Litigation
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- Current Issues in Administrative Law
- Current Issues in Constitutional Law
- Environmental Law: Science and Regulation
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property Law
- Human Rights and Terrorism
- Human Rights in Context: A Case Study
- Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy
- International Law and Children’s Rights (formerly International Law on the Rights of the Child)
- Law of Public Inquiries
- Privacy and Data Protection (formerly Privacy Law)
- Regulation and the Law
- Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective
- What is it that Judges do? An Analysis of the Major Theories of Adjudication
- Health and Medical Law
- Advanced Litigation
- Current Developments in Negligence Law
- e-Health Law
- Expert Evidence
- Foundations of Medical Law (formerly Medical Law: Common Law Obligations of Health Professionals)
- IVF and Embryo Research
- Medical Litigation
- Privacy and Data Protection (formerly Privacy Law)
- Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Public Health Law in Australia and the Pacific
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Human Rights Law
- Administrative Law in an Age of Rights
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property Law
- Gender, Human Rights and Development
- Human Rights and Terrorism
- Human Rights in Context: A Case Study
- Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy
- International Human Rights Law
- International Law and Children’s Rights (formerly International Law on the Rights of the Child)
- Interpreting International Human Rights
- Islam and Human Rights
- National Human Rights Institutions (formerly National Human Rights Monitoring)
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective
- Intellectual Property Law
- Art and Law
- Copyright Law
- Designs Law and Practice
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property Law
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- International and Comparative Patent Law
- International Issues in Intellectual Property
- Interpretation and Validity of Patent Specifications
- Licensing Law and Technology Transfer
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Overview of Intellectual Property
- Patent Law (formerly Patents and Trade Secrets)
- Patent Practice
- Privacy and the Media (formerly Privacy, Celebrity and the Media)
- Trade Mark Practice
- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition
- International Economic Law
- Comparative Regional Integration
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- Global Financial Order: IMF and World Bank
- International Institutions
- International Trade Law
- Principles of International Law
- Principles of WTO Law (formerly World Trade Organization: Basic Principles)
- International Taxation
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- International Taxation: Principles and Structure (formerly Australian International Taxation)
- Jurisprudential Perspectives on Tax Law
- Tax Treaties
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
- Taxation of Financial Instruments
- Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems
- United States Corporate and International Tax
- Value Added Tax: Australia's GST in a Global Context (formerly Advanced Goods and Services Tax)
- Islamic Legal Studies
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Commercial Law in Asia
- Comparative Law
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- Islam and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Labour Relations Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anti-Discrimination Law at Work (formerly Discrimination and Dismissal Law)
- Bargaining at Work and Industrial Action
- Comparative Law
- Corporate Criminal Law and Regulation
- Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties
- Employment Law (formerly Regulating Individual Work Relationships)
- International and Comparative Labour Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Sports Labour Law (formerly Sports Labour Law)
- Law and Development
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Regulating Working Conditions (formerly Labour Relations Law)
- Regulation and the Law
- Superannuation Law
- Trade Unions and Freedom of Association (formerly Unions and Industrial Action)
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Law and Development
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- Gender, Human Rights and Development
- Global Financial Order: IMF and World Bank
- International and Comparative Labour Law
- Interpreting International Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Law and Development
- National Human Rights Institutions (formerly National Human Rights Monitoring)
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Principles of WTO Law (formerly World Trade Organization: Basic Principles)
- State-Building and the United Nations
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- Legal Systems (formerly Comparative Law)
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Civil Society and the Law
- Comparative Companies Law in Asia
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Comparative Law
- Comparative Regional Integration
- Constitutional Design
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Groups, Diversity and the Law
- International and Comparative Labour Law
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Institutions
- Islam and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Law and Development
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Public and International Law
- Administrative Law in an Age of Rights
- Civil Society and the Law
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Common Law Constitutionalism
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Regional Integration
- Constitutional Design
- Constitutional Litigation
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- Current Issues in Administrative Law
- Current Issues in Constitutional Law
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Dispute Resolution in the Cyberspace Era
- Environmental Law: Science and Regulation
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Gender, Human Rights and Development
- Global Financial Order: IMF and World Bank
- Governing Not-for-Profit Organisations
- Groups, Diversity and the Law
- Human Rights and Terrorism
- Human Rights in Context: A Case Study
- Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Construction Law
- International Corporate Finance: Negotiating and Documenting OTC Derivatives and Repos
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Institutions
- International Issues in Intellectual Property
- International Law and Children’s Rights (formerly International Law on the Rights of the Child)
- International Law and the Use of Force
- International Legal Internship
- International Peace and Security Law (formerly Law of Peace Operations)
- International Petroleum Transactions (formerly International Oil and Gas Transactions)
- International Sports Labour Law (formerly Sports Labour Law)
- International Trade Law
- Interpreting International Human Rights
- Islam and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Law and Development
- Law of Public Inquiries
- National Human Rights Institutions (formerly National Human Rights Monitoring)
- Principles of International Law
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Regulation and the Law
- State-Building and the United Nations
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- United States Corporate and International Tax
- United States Securities Regulation
- United States Sports Law (formerly Introduction to United States Sports Law)
- Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective
- What is it that Judges do? An Analysis of the Major Theories of Adjudication
- WTO Dispute Settlement (formerly WTO Disputes Resolution and Case Law)
- Sports Law
- Event Management Law
- International Sports Labour Law (formerly Sports Labour Law)
- Sports Law: Entities and Governance
- United States Sports Law (formerly Introduction to United States Sports Law)
- Taxation
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
- Current Issues in Tax
- Current Issues in Tax Avoidance
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- Goods and Services Tax Principles
- Governing Not-for-Profit Organisations
- International Taxation: Principles and Structure (formerly Australian International Taxation)
- Jurisprudential Perspectives on Tax Law
- Law of Secured Finance (formerly Securities for Corporate Lending)
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Tax Treaties
- Taxation Litigation
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income B
- Taxation of Financial Instruments
- Taxation of Remuneration
- Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (formerly Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises A)
- Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems
- United States Corporate and International Tax
- Value Added Tax: Australia's GST in a Global Context (formerly Advanced Goods and Services Tax)
- Transnational Law
- Administrative Law in an Age of Rights
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Art and Law
- Banking and Debt Recovery in Asia (formerly Debt Recovery in Asia)
- Civil Society and the Law
- Commercial Law in Asia
- Common Law Constitutionalism
- Comparative Companies Law in Asia
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Comparative Law
- Comparative Regional Integration
- Constitutionalism in Asian Societies
- Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
- Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
- Defamation Law
- Developing Countries and the WTO
- Dispute Resolution in the Cyberspace Era
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Financial Services Law (formerly Licensing Financial Services Providers)
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- Gender, Human Rights and Development
- Global Financial Order: IMF and World Bank
- Groups, Diversity and the Law
- Human Rights and Terrorism
- Human Rights in Context: A Case Study
- Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- International and Comparative Labour Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Construction Law
- International Corporate Finance: Negotiating and Documenting OTC Derivatives and Repos
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Institutions
- International Issues in Intellectual Property
- International Law and Children’s Rights (formerly International Law on the Rights of the Child)
- International Law and the Use of Force
- International Peace and Security Law (formerly Law of Peace Operations)
- International Petroleum Transactions (formerly International Oil and Gas Transactions)
- International Sports Labour Law (formerly Sports Labour Law)
- International Taxation: Principles and Structure (formerly Australian International Taxation)
- International Trade Law
- Interpreting International Human Rights
- Islam and Human Rights
- Islamic Law and Politics in Asia
- Law and Development
- Maritime Law
- National Human Rights Institutions (formerly National Human Rights Monitoring)
- Principles of International Law
- Principles of Islamic Law (formerly Fundamentals of Islamic Law)
- Principles of WTO Law (formerly World Trade Organization: Basic Principles)
- Project Finance
- State-Building and the United Nations
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
- Taxation of Financial Instruments
- Trade, Human Rights and Development
- Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems
- United States Corporate and International Tax
- United States Securities Regulation
- Value Added Tax: Australia's GST in a Global Context (formerly Advanced Goods and Services Tax)
- Victorian Charter in Comparative Perspective
- What is it that Judges do? An Analysis of the Major Theories of Adjudication
- WTO Dispute Settlement (formerly WTO Disputes Resolution and Case Law)