Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) Program 733543
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Description
This subject addresses the need for law graduates to have experience in, and be comfortable dealing with, legal problems that cross national boundaries, legal systems and legal cultures. Whether law graduates are looking to work in commercial law, intellectual property, taxation, human rights law, labour law or any other field, international and transnational law will be an essential aspect of their work.
The Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) is a joint venture of leading global law schools, coordinated by Georgetown University’s Law Centre. Semester length programmes in transnational legal studies are taught in the heart of London’s legal quarter. The program brings together faculty and students from several of the world’s top law schools to study transnational legal issues in a multicultural and transnational setting. Melbourne Law School JD students (the third of their degree), may attend the Centre for an intensive semester focused on transnational, international, and comparative law.
Each year, the programme will be taught by faculty from each of the law schools involved in the CTLS, including Free University of Berlin, the University of Fribourg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, King’s College London, the University of Melbourne, the National University of Singapore, the University of Sao Paulo, the University of Torino, the University of Toronto, and UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico). Affiliate schools include Bucerius (in Germany), Wacedo (in Japan), Sciences Po (in France). Peking University School of Transnational Law, Moscow State University, Queen's University Belfast, and Universidad Diego Portales (in Chile). Students will be drawn from these universities and others, providing a richly diverse student body.
Melbourne Law School JD students will undertake a core course focused on transnational legal theory and three optional subjects from the suite of subjects on offer. Several classes will be co-taught by professors from different countries, to facilitate comparative analysis and discussion. The program will also include a participatory exercise to introduce students to each other and to the different perspectives that they bring to the Centre and a weekly workshop featuring some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of international, transnational, and comparative law.
Please check the CTLS website for details as to the subjects on offer for each semester.
Requisites
Pre-requisites: Legal Method and Reasoning; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law
Recommended: International law
Students interested in applying for this program for Fall 2010 should complete the application form and return it to law-studyabroad@unimelb.edu.au by 7 December 2009.
An information session will be held in the month before applications are due and session details will be publicised closer to the date.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarship(s) are available each year for the program. Applying for the available scholarship(s) can be done by filling in the appropriate form.
