Courses - Masters Degree
Master of Labour Relations Law 510
- Director of Studies: Ms Anna Chapman, Associate Professor John Howe
Objectives and Skills
The graduate programs in labour relations law focus on:
- The identification, use and application of legal principles of Australian labour relations law
- Emerging and contemporary issues in Australian labour relations law
- Technical aspects of Australian labour relations law using historical, theoretical and practical perspectives
- Evaluating and synthesising Australian labour relations law scholarship
- The development of Australian labour relations law in an international (and comparative) context.
Requirements
It is recommended that students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction undertake Employment Law before other compulsory subjects.
Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete Fundamentals of the Common Law, as well as seven subjects from the prescribed lists (including the three compulsory subjects). Students with a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete eight subjects from the prescribed list (including the three compulsory subjects).
Compulsory subjects
- Bargaining at Work and Industrial Action*
- Employment Law*
- Labour Standards under the Fair Work Act*
Optional subjects
- Equality and Discrimination at Work*
- International Employment Law*
- Trade Unions and Freedom of Association
- Workplace Health and Safety*
Other accredited subjects
- Alternative Dispute Resolution*
- Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties*
- Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
- International Economic and Social Rights
- International Human Rights Law*
- International Sports Employment Law*
- Law and Development*
- New Directions in Law and Economics
- Superannuation Law*Trade, Human Rights and Development*
*Offered in 2010
