Legal Studies - 9220
Program Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Law
Contact: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Typical Duration: 1 Years
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC For Award: 48
Award(s):
Master of Legal Studies
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Program Description
The Master of Legal Studies is a coursework program offered to professionals with a non-law background. The program is specifically designed to provide an understanding of the law within the area of expertise of the candidate. Courses offered in the MLS program combine a degree of sophistication or technical difficulty in terms of legal content with a substantial consideration of relevant interdisciplinary aspects of the subject matter and a focus on policy. Each course contains a significant research component. All courses are not necessarily available in any one year.
The MLS allows cross-disciplinary study in postgraduate courses from other UNSW faculties enabling students to advance their professional skills while acquiring knowledge of the law.
Completion of the MLS by formal coursework will not lead to a professional qualification of legal practice.
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
Program Structure
- LAWS8138 Principles of Property and Contract Law (6uoc)
- LAWS8090 Conceptualising Criminal Laws (6uoc)
and one of the following courses:
- LAWS8101 Legal Concepts, Research & Writing for Criminal Justice & Criminology (6uoc) OR
- LAWS8110 Legal Concepts, Research & Writing for Human Rights (6uoc) OR
- LAWS8249 Legal Concepts, Research & Writing for IP and Media Law (6uoc)
Students can then complete 4 Electives from the list of approved Postgraduate courses for the Master of Legal Studies. Students wishing to enrol in postgraduate LAWS courses not approved for the Master of Legal Studies should contact the Program Convenor.
Electives for the Master of Legal Studies
- LAWS8011 Anti-Money Laundering (6 UOC)
- LAWS8012 Corruption Law and Policy (6 UOC)
- LAWS8013 Transnational Policing (6 UOC)
- LAWS8014 Defamation and the Media (6 UOC)
- LAWS8015 Explaining Punishment (6 UOC)
- LAWS8016 International & Comparative IP (6 UOC)
- LAWS8017 Intellectual Property Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8020 Intnl Comm Dispute Resolution (6 UOC)
- LAWS8021 Advanced Topics in IP (6 UOC)
- LAWS8030 Cybercrime (6 UOC)
- LAWS8033 Privacy and the Media (6 UOC)
- LAWS8034 Law and Valuation ( UOC)
- LAWS8037 Surv Security and Democracy (6 UOC)
- LAWS8040 Online Content Regulation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8042 Comm Transactions Involving IP (6 UOC)
- LAWS8044 Electronic Comm Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8046 IP Law and Innovation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8047 IP Licensing Commercialisation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8048 Administrative Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8050 Globalisation and IP Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8054 Media & Comm. Industry Reg. (6 UOC)
- LAWS8056 Disability Law and Policy (6 UOC)
- LAWS8060 Human Rights in Asia (6 UOC)
- LAWS8061 Australian Bills of Rights (6 UOC)
- LAWS8063 Dispute Resolution Concepts (6 UOC)
- LAWS8065 International Climate Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8066 Australian Climate Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8067 Law, Culture the International (6 UOC)
- LAWS8068 Environmental Law in Australia (6 UOC)
- LAWS8069 Natural Resources Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8070 Renewable Energy Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8071 Planning Law & Env Assment (6 UOC)
- LAWS8075 Gender, Race and Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8076 Issues in Criminal Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8077 Foundation of Facilitation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8078 Mediation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8082 Peaceful Settle. of Int. Disp. (6 UOC)
- LAWS8084 Uncensored History of Int Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8085 International Organisations (6 UOC)
- LAWS8086 Law of the Sea (6 UOC)
- LAWS8087 IL and Use of Force (6 UOC)
- LAWS8102 Proliferation of WMD (6 UOC)
- LAWS8103 Crime Prevention Policy (6 UOC)
- LAWS8104 International Child Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8105 Juvenile Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8106 Policing ( UOC)
- LAWS8116 Dispute Resolution Family Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8117 Issues in Restorative Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8122 Critical Victimology (6 UOC)
- LAWS8123 Indigenous Children Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8124 Indigenous Women and the Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8125 Criminal Process: Human Rights (6 UOC)
- LAWS8139 Law and the Culture Industries (6 UOC)
- LAWS8141 Censorship Contempt & Media (6 UOC)
- LAWS8143 Comparative Patent Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8144 Comparative Trade Mark Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8148 IP Strategy and Management (6 UOC)
- LAWS8156 Euro Constitutionalism ( UOC)
- LAWS8157 European Human Rights Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8180 Principles of Intl Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8181 International Human Rights (6 UOC)
- LAWS8182 International Social Justice (6 UOC)
- LAWS8187 ITL: Environment and Developmt ( UOC)
- LAWS8188 Law of Armed Conflict (6 UOC)
- LAWS8189 Transnt'l Bus & Hum Rights (6 UOC)
- LAWS8190 International Refugee Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8192 Law, Rights & Development (6 UOC)
- LAWS8194 Animal Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8201 Sentencing: Law, Policy & Prac (6 UOC)
- LAWS8209 Crim Justice:Global Perspectiv (6 UOC)
- LAWS8212 Native Title Law, Policy & Pra (6 UOC)
- LAWS8235 WaterRights&ContemporaryPolicy (6 UOC)
- LAWS8289 Comparative Anti-Terrorism Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8314 Dispute Resolution (6 UOC)
- LAWS8319 Internat Env Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8329 Digital Media Regulation ( UOC)
- LAWS8366 Environmental Markets (6 UOC)
- LAWS8391 Int'l Discrimination Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8413 Indigenous Peoples in Intl Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8415 Contemporary Indigenous Issues (6 UOC)
- LAWS8423 Research Thesis: 6 uoc (6 UOC)
- LAWS8972 Law World Trade Organization (6 UOC)
- LAWS8980 Principled Negotiation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8981 Mastering Facilitation (6 UOC)
- LAWS8991 International Criminal Law (6 UOC)
- LAWS8994 Fraud, Forgery and Dishonesty (6 UOC)
A student may apply to the Coordinator of Postgraduate Education for permission to take, as appropriate to the student's overall program, up to 50 per cent of the program from courses offered at postgraduate level by another UNSW faculty, another University via cross-institutional study or from postgraduate taxation courses offered by the School of Taxation and Business Law, Australian School of Business. No student may be permitted to take more than 50 per cent of the program from courses of either type.
ENROLMENT
The Enrolment Guide for the Master of Legal Studies (MLS) can be found on the Enrolment UNSW Law website.
Academic Rules
The degree of Master of Legal Studies may be awarded by the Council to a candidate who has satisfactorily completed a program of advanced study.
Qualifications
(1) A candidate for the degree shall have been awarded an appropriate degree of Bachelor from the University of New South Wales or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Faculty Education Committee of the Faculty of Law (hereinafter referred to as the Committee).
(2) In exceptional cases an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic and professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol for the degree.
(3) When the Committee is not satisfied with the qualifications submitted by an applicant the Committee may require the applicant, before being permitted to enrol, to undergo such examination or carry out such work as the Committee may prescribe.
Enrolment and Progression
(1) An application to enrol as a candidate for the degree shall be lodged with the Registrar by the advertised due date.
(2) A candidate for the degree shall be required to undertake such formal courses and pass such assessment as is prescribed.
(3) The progress of a candidate shall be subject to the approval of the Coordinator of Postgraduate Education and will be reviewed at least once annually by the Committee. As a result of its review the Committee may cancel enrolment or take such other action as it considers appropriate.
(4) No candidate shall be awarded the degree until the lapse of two academic semesters from the date of enrolment in the case of a full-time candidate or three semesters in the case of a part-time candidate. The maximum period of candidature shall be three academic semesters from the date of enrolment for a full-time candidate and six semesters for a part-time candidate. In special cases an extension of these times may be granted by the Committee.
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