Elective Subjects
Elective or optional subjects are built into the JD curriculum in the second and third years of the course. The inaugural, 2008 cohort therefore will undertake the first selection of elective subjects in 2009.
Nevertheless, one elective is available in the winter break of 2008 for accelerating students: Public International Law, taught by Professor Gerry Simpson, will run in July 2008.
The elective program is designed to enable JD students to pursue particular interests in depth or to develop experience and knowledge across a wide range of current and emerging fields of law.
Certain core electives will be offered each year or every second year, including:
- Intellectual Property
- Private International Law
- Public International Law
- Taxation
- Family Law
- Employment Law
- Advocacy
- Competition Law
Other elective subjects will be offered in response to the preferences of current JD students. They will be drawn from a wide range of possibilities, best considered as falling within the following groups or clusters:
- Asian Law
- Comparative Law
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Criminal Law and Justice
- Indigenous Issues in Law
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
- Labour Law
- Law and Society
- Legal Theory
- Litigation and Dispute Management
- Media Law
- Property and Resources Law
- Public Law
- Taxation
In addition, JD students are able to undertake a wide range of selected options from the Melbourne Law Masters program. The Melbourne Law Masters offers one of the world’s largest programs in graduate law with subjects covering a huge range of specialist legal areas. Small class sizes, intensive timetabling and high calibre teaching by local and international experts ensures a study experience of unrivalled quality.