On behalf of the UNSW Law Faculty, I extend a warm welcome to you as postgraduate students. An internationally recognised Faculty, our postgraduate students come to us from many countries and from varied walks of life. They include legal practitioners seeking specialised coursework training, academics pursuing research degrees, and non-lawyers seeking legal and related qualifications complementary to their disciplines. Whatever your legal background or program of study, we are committed to research, teaching and scholarly excellence in the context of a commitment to the rule of law and social justice. We aim to ensure your highest satisfaction by extending your educational horizons in fulfilling our educational mission as a centre of both academic and professional excellence.

Postgraduate Coursework Programs
The UNSW Law School offers eight postgraduate coursework degrees: a Master of Laws, a Graduate Diploma in Law, a Master of Legal Studies, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies, a Master of International Law and International Relations, a Graduate Diploma in International Law and International Relations, a Master of Law and Management, supported by the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), and a Master of Business Administration/Master of Laws, a combined program with the AGSM, the premier management school in Australia.

The postgraduate coursework curriculum provides a legal education in discrete areas of specialisation including: Corporate and Commercial Law; Corporate, Commercial and Taxation Law; Media, Communications and Information Technology Law; International Law; European Union Law; Criminal Justice; Asian Law; and Human Rights and Social Justice.

Postgraduate coursework at the UNSW Law School has the specific goal of strengthening the professional knowledge and skills of lawyers and related professionals. As a result, coursework programs often are oriented around the specialised areas of law identified above, and each course contains a significant research component.

Consistent with the career enhancing goals of postgraduate coursework students, LLM and GradDipLaw graduates who have completed a minimum of 24 units of credit from one of the specialisations may elect to have their specialisation noted on their testamur.

In the Australian School of Taxation (Atax), the Law Faculty offers a Master of Taxation, a Master of International Taxation, a Master of Applied Taxation, a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Taxation and a Graduate Diploma in Taxation Studies. These programs are offered primarily, but not exclusively, through flexible distance education. Over 30 postgraduate courses are available to students throughout the country or located offshore, and the programs offer the most comprehensive range of specialised taxation courses anywhere in the southern hemisphere.

Research Degrees
The UNSW Law Faculty also offers five research degrees under the supervision of leading scholars: the Doctor of Philosophy (Law), Doctor of Philosophy (Taxation), the Doctor of Juridical Science, the Master of Laws and the Master of Taxation.

The Faculty has particular research strengths in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Taxation Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology, European Law and International Law, Japanese Law, Indigenous Law and Human Rights, Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property, Media and Communications Law, Law and Social Theory and Procedure and Evidence.

The Faculty seeks to provide postgraduate research students with an intellectual atmosphere conducive to research. While research students have primary contact with their supervisors, UNSW also provides a collegial setting where research students can exchange ideas with one another and the Faculty at large. The Faculty also provides research students with a reflective atmosphere in which to develop their ideas. The new Law Building provides state of the art, dedicated facilities for research students.

Specialised Research Centres
Both postgraduate coursework and research students have the opportunity to draw upon the services of UNSW's important specialist research centres. These centres include: the Australian Human Rights Centre; the Indigenous Law Centre; the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre; the European Law Centre; the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law; the National Pro Bono Resource Centre; and the National Children's Youth Law Centre.

I wish you every success in your postgraduate studies at the UNSW Law Faculty.

Professor David Dixon PhD
Senior Associate Dean
Faculty of Law

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