Law & Justice | LLM Term 2 Courses

LAWS8028 

Corporate governance has become increasingly important in the control of corporations and their behaviour. This course is about the governance of corporations and the inter-section of governance techniques with regulation and corporate law. It is not a course about director’s duties and liabilities, though these play an important role in shaping corporate governance.

LAWS8212

Since the Mabo decision in 1992 revised fundamental assumptions embedded in Australian law, native title has developed as a complex and controversial area of law and policy. Based on an understanding of native title as the intersection of two legal systems, this course will provide students with a technical and contextual understanding of native title law, policy and practice in Australia. 

LAWS8413

The past three decades have seen the worlds more than 300 million indigenous people make significant advances in international law with the recognition of Indigenous rights through current and newly established mechanisms that advance the development of norms relating to Indigenous rights. This course synthesises the contemporary international law pertaining to in particular the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

LAWS8198

Legal project management (LPM) applies project management concepts and skills to the provision of legal services. This course examines the core conceptual principles underpinning LPM and gives students hands-on experience in applying them. 

LAWS8104

This course will attempt to find its meaning by surveying the history and legal development of children’s rights internationally, while offering a pragmatic approach to its application.

LAWS8076 

This course examines shifting notions of crime policy and justice. It considers multiple meanings of crime and justice such as governing through crime, Indigenous innovations, creation of criminality, discretionary powers, and securitisation. Current issues are studied from diverse perspectives, including critical criminology, decolonial approaches, and the political economy of surveillance and security.

LAWS8193
This course reflects this inter-disciplinary approach and introduces students to a range of perspectives on state organised human rights abuses. Topics covered include: theoretical approaches to state crime; genocide; colonial genocide; war crimes; torture; refugees; whistleblowers; and civil society resistance.

LAWS8534
This course will allow students to gain core skills toward being “tomorrow’s lawyer.” Students will have opportunities to acquire and use ODR skills through class discussions, case studies, and role-play exercises. 

LAWS8192
This course explores the interactions between international human rights law, other bodies of international law and the process or phenomenon of development.