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Master of Labour Relations Law 510

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