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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.

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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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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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