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The Melboune JDJuris Doctor
www.law.unimelb.edu.au/jd
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It is a geat pleasue to intoduce you to Melboune Law
School and the Melboune Juis Docto (JD).
Melbourne Law School is a vibrant place o learning that
values ideas, excellence and intellectual exchange. It is a place
dedicated to preparing students to be ethical, responsible andglobal in their outlook. Our graduates excel at the highest levels
in the legal proession, government, politics, community service
and business. They can be ound undertaking urther study at
Oxord, Cambridge and Harvard or practising in top-tier law
rms in Hong Kong, London, New York and Beijing.
While we have a wonderul building and a library that we have
been building up or over 150 years, the heart o our school is
our people. We have exceptional teachers who work at the
cutting edge o the law, advising governments, international
bodies, courts and lawyers. These teachers inspire and
challenge our students to gain a deep understanding o the
law with all its strengths and weaknesses.
Students in the Melbourne JD learn not only rom our teachers
but also rom one another. Since introducing the Melbourne JD,
we have transormed how law is taught and studied at
the Law School. Our seminar-style classes acilitate vigorous
discussion and debate among highly engaged graduate
students. Each student is actively involved in exploring the law
and is encouraged to draw on their educational and lie
experiences to make their own contribution. This diversity o
perspectives and the talent o our students combine to create a
rich learning experience one that I invite you to explore and join.
Proessor Carolyn Evans
Dean, Melbourne Law School
Harrison Moore Proessor o Law
Intoductionom the Dean
Ou gaduates excel at the highestlevels in the legal poession,govenment, politics, communitysevice and business.
Poesso Caolyn EvansDean, Melbourne Law School
Harrison Moore Professor of Law
Contents
The Melbourne Juris Doctor 1
Melbourne Law School 2
The JD experience 4
International opportunities 5
Career focus 7
Course overview 8
Course content 9
Location and facilities 11
Entry requirements 13
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Taught at a gaduate level, the
Melboune Juis Docto (JD) equips
gaduates to take a leading ole in
contempoay legal pactice, the
business wold, govenment o
community oganisations.
Graduating with a law degree rom
Melbourne Law School means that
wherever your career takes you,
your degree will be recognised as
outstanding.
The Melbourne JD is highly regarded
and readily recognised, both nationally
and internationally. It leads to admission
to the legal proession in all Australian
jurisdictions and can also be used as
a basis or seeking admission in manyjurisdictions overseas.
You will be taught by academics who
are leaders in their elds, in Australia and
around the world. Melbourne Law School
academics draw on expertise in legal
scholarship and practice to deliver
a degree that is outward looking and
intellectually stimulating.
Your JD experience will be as much
about your ellow students as your
teachers. In the Melbourne JD you will
study law in discussion-based classes
with other highly motivated and
enthusiastic graduates.
As a Melbourne JD student, you will be
part o a law school vitally interested in
global legal practice. Melbourne Law
School provides a global educational
experience or its students, with
opportunities or overseas study, degree
partnerships with leading international
law schools and a curriculum that
encompasses transnational, international
and comparative legal issues.
The Melbourne JD is not just about
classrooms and casebooks. By ocusing
on the career development o its
students, Melbourne Law School equips
you with the skills and opportunities to
engage with the legal proession and
build your own successul career.
The MelbouneJuis Docto
The Melboune JD oes an
expeience evey gaduate
will ondly emembe. Fo
students who ae ambitious,
who thive on being
intellectually engaged,
and value the powe o
knowledge, thee is no iche
expeience than leaning
alongside pees who ae
equally motivated. It is the
small class sizes that enable
me to develop a stong
netwok with pees and
academics, who seve as an
invaluable point o contact
and souce o iendship
both within and outside
Austalia.
Gay ZhangMelbourne JD student
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With expeience gained ove
150 yeas, Melboune Law School
is Austalias fst law school and
continues to be a leade and
innovato in teaching the next
geneation o skilled legal
poessionals.
Melbourne Law School has led the
shit to graduate law in Australia with
the Melbourne JD. The Law Schools
innovation in teaching and research
means that you will experience an
outstanding learning environment.
Drawing on a rich history o legal
research and education, Melbourne
Law School is uniquely placed within
both the Australian and internationallegal communities. The Law School
experience introduces you to a
community o scholars, students, legal
educators and members o the legal
proession, government and business
institutions which will help you to
establish a network or lie.
In July 2012, Melbourne Law School
was ranked as the top law school in
Australia and eighth in the world by
the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World
University Rankings.
World-class researchers
The Melbourne Law School community
provides an unparalleled depth o
learning through its 15 research centres
and institutes.
This vibrant research culture supports
and inorms the Law Schools teaching
activities. Located within the Melbourne
Law School campus, the research
centres deliver teaching and research
programs, and regularly arrange
international and national conerences
and seminars.
Melbourne Law School was ranked
well above world standard or the
quality o its research by the Australian
Research Council in 2012. It is one oonly two law schools in Australia to
consistently score the maximum
possible in the Excellence in Research
for Australiareport.
MelbouneLaw School
Research centres
and institutes
Asian Law Centre (ALC)
Asia Pacic Centre or Military Law
(APCML)
Centre or Comparative Constitutional
Studies (CCCS)
Centre or Corporate Law and
Securities Regulation (CCLSR)
Centre or Employment and Labour
Relations Law (CELRL)
Centre or Islamic Law and Society
(CILS)
Centre or Media and
Communications Law (CMCL)
Centre or Resources, Energy
and Environmental Law (CREEL)
Civil Justice Research Group
Competition Law and Economics
Network (CLEN)
Human Rights in the Melbourne
Law School
Institute or International Law
and the Humanities (IILaH)
Intellectual Property Research
Institute o Australia (IPRIA) Obligations Group
The Tax Group
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The Universityo Melbourneis ranked:
8 in the woldby the QuacquarelliSymonds (QS) WorldUniversity Rankings,2012.
no.in AustaliaTimes HigherEducation WorldUniversityRankings, 201213.
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Melboune Law School students ae
highly motivated and committed,
with divese educational
backgounds, expeiences and
pespectives. They ae an impotant
pat o Melboune Law Schools
vibant intellectual community.
As a JD student you will:
Join other engaged and enthusiastic
students in discussion-based classes
and enrich each others education;
Build skills or employment in the 21st
century by collaborating and interacting
with other students in group work;
Be part o a tight-knit community o
graduates and learn alongside your
supportive classmates;
Have the opportunity to join societies,
edit journals, attend public lectures and
participate in cultural events, moots
and competitions;
Build a network or lie through
connections with your student peers,
Law School alumni, mentors and
university sta.
The JDexpeience
Melboune Law Schools ich
divesity amongst the aculty
and student body povides o
a tuly intenational academic
envionment. I have leant a
geat deal about mysel and
the wold aound me though
the numeous challenges and
oppotunities that this degee
has oeed. I you ae
passionate about pusuing
a caee in law, I am cetain
you will fnd the Melboune
JD to be a deeply ewading
expeience.
Jason GoliszekMelbourne JD student
The JD has supassed evey
expectation I had coming into
the degee. Melboune Law
School is chaacteised by an
envionment that is congenial
to academic gowth as well
as pesonal development. I
am continuously inspied by
the teaches and students
who have made my JDexpeience so ewading.
Angela KittikhounMelbourne JD student
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Melboune Law School has a
global outlook, equipping you
with the skills and knowledge
needed to wok in an inceasingly
inteconnected wold.
The Law Schools strong international
ocus means that you will have
opportunities to study overseas, and
the chance to learn rom a curriculum
that tracks and responds to global legal
developments.
Our academics work internationally and
transnationally. They bring that expertise
to develop a comprehensive curriculum
that provides you with the skills to work
condently across national boundaries.
Graduate with two internationally
recognised qualications
Through Melbourne Law Schools
international partnerships, JD students
have the chance to earn combined
degrees in law. Upon successul
admission to these prestigious
international schools, students may earn
a Melbourne Juris Doctor (JD) together
with one o the ollowing:
Bachelor o Civil Laws (BCL) or
Masters in Law and Finance (MLF)rom Oxord University
Master o Laws (LLM) or
Juris Doctor (JD) rom New York
University School o Law
Master o Laws in Chinese Business
Law rom the Chinese University o
Hong Kong
Go on student exchange
Immerse yoursel in another culture
while studying or a semester abroad,
and explore student lie in a dierent
environment. Melbourne Law Schoolprovides exchange opportunities with
institutions across the world, including
in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Ireland,
Germany, the UK, Israel and Singapore.
Learn with your international
peers
Study transnational and international
legal issues with aculty and students
rom ten leading global law schools
at the Center or Transnational Legal
Studies (CTLS) in London. As the onlyAustralian member o the CTLS,
Melbourne Law School provides
students with access to the worlds
leading legal scholars in a dynamic
and innovative learning environment.
Explore subjects oshore
Melbourne Law School oers two
exciting subjects abroad, with
opportunities to meet and network with
international practitioners. Both courses
are taught at international hubs and
ocus on broadening the student
experience. Institutions in International
Lawis taught in Geneva and Global
Lawyeris taught in Washington DC
and New York City.
Intenationaloppotunities
The elective subject Global
Lawyerpovides unpaalleled
oppotunities o students
inteested in legal pacticein an intenational context
to exploe, though intensive
seminas in New Yok City
and Washington DC,
contempoay issues
associated with intenational
legal ethics, coss-bode
tansactions, and
tansnational legal poblems
and disputes.
Associate Poesso Tania Voon
Coordinator, Global Lawyer
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With a compehensive suite
o pogams and suppot stuctues
beyond the omal cuiculum,
Melboune Law School seves the
specifc needs o law students.
From a specialised Law Careers Oce
to a world-wide alumni network,
Melbourne Law School is ocused
on working with students to achieve
their potential.
Learn rom a mentor
Be guided by somebody whos been
in your shoes. Melbourne Law Schools
Mentor Program provides one-on-one
guidance rom an experienced legal
proessional working in your individualarea o interest. In the rst year o your
JD, you will have a real-world link to
practitioners and law graduates working
in a range o legal workplaces and
careers.
Benet rom an internship
Experience law outside the classroom.
Choose among a growing number o
internships, many o which are available
exclusively to Melbourne Law School
students. Internships help build yourcareer prospects and allow you to
experience working in a range o
environments. Students can also
undertake an internship or subject
credit in the JD program.
Access expert advice
Develop your career with the help o
our unique Law School Careers Oce.
Specically designed or law students,
this expert service is available rom themoment you begin your JD studies.
The Careers Oce helps you identiy
your goals and provides you with
advice, inormation and opportunities
to help shape your uture.
Hear rom top legal
proessionals
Stay in touch with cutting-edge legal
issues and access the best and
brightest legal minds through our
Guest Speaker Series. The programcomplements the JD academic studies
and gives you the opportunity to meet
members o the judiciary, politicians,
legal practitioners and law graduates
working beyond the legal proession.
Stay connected
As a Melbourne Law School graduate,
you become part o a global alumni
community o over 17,500 proessionals
working in a variety o disciplines all
over the world.
Caee ocus
The Melboune JD ensues
that students hea om eal
voices about law and legal
pactice in the 21st centuy.Evey yea a caeully
selected goup o expets
visit Melboune Law School
to teach o engage with
students, including membes
o the judiciay, govenment
policy makes, intenationally
espected scholas and
leading legal pactitiones.
Associate Poesso Alison Duxbuy
Associate Dean (Juris Doctor)
from July 2013
Associate Poesso Elise BantAssociate Dean (Juris Doctor)
until June 2013
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The Melboune JD is designed
specifcally o gaduate students.
The curriculum allows you to build the
core skills essential to a wide range o
legal and proessional careers. It alsogives you the opportunity to tailor your
studies to areas o particular interest
through elective subjects.
Structure
The JD course comprises 24 subjects,
including 17 compulsory subjects based
on the Priestley 11 required or
admission to legal practice within
Australia.
You have the fexibility to pursue
particular areas o interest through
elective subject selection. Oering
more than 35 electives each year, the
JD program continually evolves to
refect current developments in law
and legal practice.
You also have the opportunity to
undertake an elective rom the
Melbourne Law Masters, where you will
share a classroom with practitioners
rom Australias premier organisations
and institutions, in special interest areas
such as international and human rightslaw. Apply or an additional elective
rom this highly regarded masters
program and align your studies with
your individual interests.
Integrated curriculum
One o the highlights o the JD is its
integrated curriculum. Students are
supported through curriculum design,
class discussion and assessment
activities to see how each subject
connects with preceding, concurrent
and uture units, enabling students to
develop a holistic and coherent
understanding o the law.
New elective developments build on
this integrated core curriculum by
requiring students to mimic proessional
practice in particular contexts. The
Public Interest and Transactional Law
initiatives expose JD students to both
proessional practice opportunities
across the ull range o community-
spirited and commercial law activities.
Duration
The Melbourne JD is taught over six
semesters under the standard three-
year structure, with options or fexible
study (subject to approval by the Law
School). To discuss your course
planning options, contact the Student
Centre.
Visit the JD website or comprehensive
inormation on course delivery and
structure.
Couseoveview
Melboune Law School
is building the most
contempoay and
inspiational JD electivepogam in Austalia,
incopoating ecent
developments in
tansactional law, Asian law,
intellectual popety, climate
change, medical law, human
ights, intenational law,
coss-bode tansactions
and taxation law to name
just some o the pogams
eatues all taught by
leades in the feld.
Poesso Andew KenyonDeputy Dean until January 2013
Poesso John HoweDeputy Dean from February 2013
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Couse content
Be engaged and challenged by
the 17 compulsory subjects thatteach skills essential to applying
legal knowledge in the 21st
century:
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Corporations Law
Criminal Law and Procedure
Dispute Resolution
Evidence and Proo
Legal Ethics
Legal Method and Reasoning
Legal Research
Legal Theory
Obligations
Principles o Public Law
Property
Remedies
Torts
Trusts
Advocacy
Charters o Rights in
Comparative Perspective
Climate Change Law
Commercial Law in Asia
Competition Law
Construction Law
Corporate Governance
Criminal Jurisdictions
Cross-Border Litigation
Cyber Law
Deals
Democracy Law and
Civil Liberties
Employment Law
Encounters: Indigenous
Peoples and Law
Environmental Law
European Civil Law
Family Law
Global Lawyer
Human Rights Lawyering
Insolvency Law
Institutions in International
Law
International Capital Markets:
Regulation and Institutions
International Commercial
Law and Disputes
International Criminal Law
International Human Rights
Law
International Investment Law
Jessup Moot
Labour and Employment Law
Law, Justice and Human
Rights in the Asia-Pacic
Law o Commercial
Reputation and Brands
Legal Internship
Media Law
Medical Law
Melbourne Journal o
International Law Research
and Writing
Melbourne University Law
Review Research and
Writing
Mergers, Acquisitions
and Capital Markets
Murder
Property in Invention
and Creation
Public International Law
Reugee Law
Sports Law
Taxation Law and Policy
Taxation o Business
Enterprises
The Rule o Law in Theoryand in Practice
Choose an additional elective
subject rom the Melbourne LawSchool Masters program, which
oers subjects across areas o
specialisation as diverse as:
Criminal Law, Poverty
and Justice
Elements o Legislation
Energy Regulation and
the Law
Environmental Rights
European Intellectual
Property Law
Globalisation and the Limits
o Sovereignty
Hot Topics in Medical Law
International Commercial
Arbitration
International Law and
Childrens Rights
International Reugee Law:
Reugee Status
Law o Political Money Medical Ethics
Newsgathering
Petroleum Law
Poverty and Human Rights
Rule o Law in Asia
Sports and Competition Law:
An International and
Comparative Analysis
Water Law and Natural
Resources Management
Women, War and Peace-
Building
WTO Law and Dispute
Settlement
Elective subjects
Shape your own course o study by pursuing particular
areas o interest or explore new and emerging legalpractice in elective subjects such as:
Compulsory subjects Melbourne Law
Masters elective
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Studying in Melbourne
Melbourne is an exciting and vibrant
hub o cultural, social, sporting and
business lie. The Law School is located
only a ve-minute tram ride or a15-minute walk rom the city centre,
and is positioned right next to the
inner-city suburb o Carlton. The Law
Schools contemporary and purpose-
built acilities are located adjacent
to the historic and leay University
campus.
Outstanding law building
The Melbourne Law School building has
been designed specically or legal
education. This state-o-the-art building
has simulated court acilities, purpose-
built study spaces, a library spanning
three levels, and comortable student
areas or group work and relaxation.
With abundant natural light and
360-degree views o Melbourne, the
Law School acilities oer the same
broad perspective as presented within
the world-class curriculum.
Student Centre
Located on the mezzanine level, the
Student Centre is the hub or studentaccess to acilities and advice. The
Student Centre is staed by a
proessional and dedicated team
ocused on supporting you through
your studies at Melbourne Law School
and beyond.
Library
Melbourne Law Schools award-winning
Law Library houses one o the best law
collections in Australia, and includes:
An extensive collection o printmaterials, online legal databases
and ebooks;
Dedicated study spaces;
Discussion rooms or group study;
Computers specically or
student use;
Plug-in and wireless internet
connectivity or laptops;
One-on-one legal research
consultations;
Legal research skills classes
delivered on campus and online;
Reserve collections o subject-
related material;
Loans rom other libraries in the
Universitys network.
Locationand acilities
I have enjoyed many
aspects o the Melboune
JD. My cohot is made up
o enthusiastic studentsthat have a boad ange o
inteests and expeience.
My dedicated teaches
ae leades in thei feld
o eseach o pactice.
Finally, the vaied exta-
cuicula activities, guest
speakes and wok
expeience oppotunities
acilitated by Melboune
Law School have expanded
my hoizons as to what I can
do with my law degee.
Heathe DouglasMelbourne JD Student
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Applicants to the Melboune
JD must hold an undegaduate
degee in a discipline othe
than law, o a law degee om
a dieent legal system.
Melbourne Law School considers each
application individually and in its entirety.
Selection is based on perormance in
three areas:
1. academic perormance rom allprevious tertiary studies;
2. Law School Admission Test (LSAT)score and essay; and
3. a personal statement (up to 850
words).
All applicants must also meet theEnglish requirements o the University
o Melbourne.
Our careul and considered selection
process seeks to build a diverse body o
students who are not only academically
talented, but who contribute to the
vibrant intellectual community o
Melbourne Law School.
Gradute Access Melbourne
The University o Melbourne is
committed to having a student body
that is representative o the wider
community. I you identiy with one o
the ollowing groups you may be eligible
to apply under our Graduate Access
Melbourne Scheme.
Recognition as an Indigenous
Australian
Previous Status as Reugee or
current holder o a Humanitarian Visa
Rural or Isolated background
Disadvantaged socio-economic
circumstances
Disability or chronic illness
Personal diculties
Please contact us or urther inormation
or visit our website.
Guaranteed entry
Melbourne Law School has a
guaranteed entry policy or high-
achieving school leavers, allowing them
to secure places in the JD provided theymeet certain requirements. Guaranteed
pathways are available or Commonwealth
supported places, Australian ee places
and international ee places.
Fees
The Melbourne JD is oered on a ee or
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
basis. Australian citizens, permanent
residents o Australia and citizens o
New Zealand can be considered or CSP.
Scholarships and nancial
assistance
There are a number o options available
to help Melbourne JD students nance
their studies, including scholarships,
nancial aid programs and loan schemes
such as FEE-HELP and HECS-HELP.
Melbourne Law School oers a range o
scholarships that recognise outstanding
academic achievement and provide
support to deserving students in
nancial need. Visit the JD websiteor a ull list o scholarships open to
JD students.
Thinking about studying law?
Melbourne Law School holds regular
inormation sessions on the Melbourne
JD throughout the year. You can also
sample a typical law class, or nd out
more about career paths and
opportunities or JD graduates.
Sign up or Future Law to nd out
about special events, application
inormation and key dates:
www.futurelaw.unimelb.edu.au
Enty equiements
I have always wanted
to study law and the
Melboune JD has given
me oppotunities to exploe
vaious aeas that I did not
even contemplate pio to
beginning the degee. Being
quite commecially minded
when I joined Melboune
Law School, I have been
happily supised by how
much exposue I have had to
othe aeas o legal pactice,
including advocacy, the
oppotunity to study
intenational law oveseas
as well as the pactical skills
that I cannot wait to use
when I gaduate.
Lauen MclnnesMelbourne JD student
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