Postgraduate - Area of Study Commercial law

NOTE: This area of study has had one or more changes made to it since publication on 1 October 2011. For details of change/s, please consult the change register at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2012handbooks/2012-change-register.html.

The commercial law specialisation provides in-depth knowledge of a wide range of commercial law areas. Graduates from law and non-law disciplines have the opportunity to choose from an extensive range of units covering many diverse domestic and international topics.

For law graduates, the specialisation provides a springboard from which to launch or further a career in this increasingly complex and evolving area of law. For non-law graduates, it provides a formal course of training and specialisation for working in law-related fields such as accountancy, and taxation, banking and finance, and corporate regulation and management.

• LAW7000 Minor thesis (25,000 - 30,000 words)
• LAW7009 Commercial tenancy law
• LAW7011 Copyright
• LAW7015 Current problems in taxation
• LAW7019 European union law and policy
• LAW7025 International trade finance: Law and practice
• LAW7028 International trade law
• LAW7031 Corporate insolvency
• LAW7037 Occupational health and safety
• LAW7045 Takeovers
• LAW7056 Competition law
• LAW7068 International environmental law
• LAW7071 Commercial alternative dispute resolution
• LAW7075 Trade marks and commercial designations
• LAW7076 Principles of privacy and freedom of information
• LAW7077 International aspects of intellectual property
• LAW7078 Graduate research paper
• LAW7083 Law of employee relations
• LAW7119 Patents for inventions
• LAW7122 Superannuation law and practice
• LAW7212 Australian legal system
• LAW7215 Labour law for corporate lawyers
• LAW7220 Anti-money laundering
• LAW7221 Technology contracts and licensing law
• LAW7223 Overview of intellectual property
• LAW7224 Trade mark practice
• LAW7243 Shareholders' remedies
• LAW7244 Intellectual property and the internet
• LAW7245 Current issues in electronic commerce law
• LAW7246 Privacy and information security in law cyberspace
• LAW7251 Negotiation and mediation skills
• LAW7254 Design law and practice
• LAW7258 Consumer protection: Regulation and compliance
• LAW7262 Goods and services tax
• LAW7263 Overview of corporate law
• LAW7276 Principles of taxation
• LAW7278 Comparative competition law
• LAW7279 Electronic workplace law
• LAW7280 Cybercrime
• LAW7304 Corporate and white collar crime
• LAW7306 Corporate governance and directors' duties
• LAW7307 Contemporary issues in administrative law
• LAW7308 Expert evidence
• LAW7309 Current issues in intellectual property
• LAW7310 Current issues in workplace law
• LAW7312 Advanced negotiation and mediation skills
• LAW7323 International banking and finance: Law and practice
• LAW7324 Energy law, regulation and policy
• LAW7326 World Trade Organization (WTO) law
• LAW7327 Discrimination law and human rights at work
• LAW7332 Principles of construction law
• LAW7337 Tax disputes and written advocacy
• LAW7338 Forward with fairness: New labour law
• LAW7339 Arbitration of international commercial disputes
• LAW7344 Comparative corporate governance
• LAW7347 Procurement law
• LAW7348 Film and media production law
• LAW7349 Comparative international tax law
• LAW7426 International copyright law
• LAW7427 International investment law
• LAW7430 Corporate finance law
• LAW7433 Patenting for commercialisation
• LAW7434 The law of climate change
• LAW7436 Introduction to Australian legal process (international students only)
• LAW7437 Equity capital markets law in Australia
• LAW7438 Globalisation and international economic law
• LAW7439 Human rights and intellectual property
• LAW7442 Overview of comparative banking law
• LAW7443 Arbitration of domestic commercial disputes
• LAW7450 Personal property securities
• LAW7451 International trade mark law
• LAW7452 Patent practice
• LAW7453E Innovation: Labour, competition and intellectual property law perspectives
• LAW7456 Minor thesis (12,000 - 15,000 words)
• LAW7467 Advanced torts
• LAW7468 Corporate environmental responsibilities
• LAW7469 Remedies in commercial disputes
• LAW7471 Competition law: Regulating access
• LAW7473 European Union law: Commerce, law and politics
• LAW7479 Domestic and international debt capital markets

Units to be offered in Prato and Malaysia can be viewed at

http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/study-opportunities/overseas-study/index.html

Monash University Law Chambers

Email: law-postgraduate@monash.edu

Telephone: +61 3 9903 8500

• 0068 Master of Laws
• 2107 Master of Laws (Commercial Law)
• 3373 Master of Commercial Law
• 2103 Graduate Diploma in Law
• 2105 Graduate Diploma in Law (Commercial Law)