Courses - Graduate Diploma
Graduate Diploma in Communications Law 518
- Director of Studies: Professor Andrew Kenyon
- Other Related Courses: Master of Commercial Law 504
Objectives and Skills
The Graduate Diploma in Communications Law focuses on:
- The implications of different regulatory models for individuals, corporate entities, states and information providers
- The international context facing law and the media and communications industries
- Divergent legal norms and cultural values within contemporary approaches to communications law and policy
- Evaluating and synthesising communications law, policy and research
- Communications law scholarship, responding to legal issues facing the media and communications industries.
Requirements
Students must complete four subjects from the prescribed list, including at least one subject from each group. Students who do not have a law degree from a common law system or any prior legal studies or experience are also expected to complete the two-day preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions.
Group A
- Defamation Law
- Free Speech, Contempt and the Media*
- Privacy Law*
Group B
- Art and Law
- Communications Law*
- Copyright Law*
- Cybersecurity Law
- Electronic Commerce Law*
- Entertainment Law*
- Film and Television Law: Production, Financing and Distribution
- Free Speech and Intellectual Property Law
- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
- International and Comparative Copyright Law
- Law and Economics of Access Regulation*
* Offered in 2009
