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Conditions for Award of Degrees

Doctor of Laws (LLD)

  1. The degree of Doctor of Laws may be granted by the Council on the recommendation of the Academic Board for an original contribution or contributions to legal learning of such merit that is has achieved or is likely to achieve general recognition by scholars in the field.
  2. A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Laws shall be either: (a) a graduate of the University of New South Wales of at least ten years standing; or (b) a graduate of another approved university of at least ten years standing who has been a full-time member of the academic staff of the University of New South Wales and has been engaged in advanced study and research in the University for a period of not less than four years.
  3. The degree shall be awarded on the published work2 of the candidate.
  4. A candidate for the degree shall forward to the Dean of Graduate Research an application together with: (a) Four copies (wherever possible) of the work referred to in paragraph 3. (b) A declaration indicating those sections of work, if any, which have been submitted previously for a degree or other award in any university.
  5. In submitting published work, every candidate shall submit a short discourse describing the research activities embodied in the submission. The discourse shall make clear the extent of the originality of the candidate's part in any collaborative work.
  6. The discourse and list of published work shall be forwarded by the Dean of Graduate Research to the Presiding Member of the relevant faculty, or if not appropriate, to the Committee on Research for determination of the membership of an ad hoc committee which shall conduct the examination.
  7. Following the adoption of a report from the ad hoc committee that the work referred to in paragraph 3. above is prima facie worthy of examination, the work shall be submitted to three examiners appointed by the Committee on Research on the recommendation of the ad hoc committee.
  8. At the conclusion of the examination each examiner shall submit a report on the published work and shall recommend whether or not the degree be awarded. The ad-hoc committee shall, after consideration of the examiners' reports, recommend to the Committee on Research whether or not the candidate be awarded the degree.
  9. The Committee on Research shall, after consideration of the ad-hoc committee's recommendation and the examiners' reports, recommend to the Academic Board whether or not the candidate be awarded the degree.
  10. A candidate shall pay such fees as may be determined from time to time by the Council.
1 For these purposes 'science' includes engineering, applied sciences and associated technologies, and such fields of learning as the Academic Board may determine to be appropriate for the award of the degree.
2 In these rules, the term 'published work' shall mean printed as a book or in a periodical or as a pamphlet or an exhibition or performance or screening readily available to the public. The purpose of requiring publication is to ensure that the work submitted has been available for criticism. The examiners may disregard any of the work submitted if, in their opinion, it has not been available for criticism.
3 Candidates in the visual arts should catalogue their work in the form of mounted transparencies, video tape, video disc or film.

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