Faculty of Law : Guide to courses

1. Introduction to the Faculty of Law

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 1. Introduction to the Faculty of Law

Law has been taught at the University of Melbourne since 1857. The Faculty of Law was established in 1873 and since then has been highly regarded for scholarship and research. It continues to provide the highest standard of legal education and scholarship in a challenging intellectual environment. The Faculty is proud of its contribution, through its many successful graduates, to the legal profession and to Australian society.

About 1700 students are enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws program. Most students at Melbourne choose to study for two degrees simultaneously, thus graduating with a degree in Law and one in Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Geomatics or Science. Such combined degree programs are designed to equip students better to meet the challenges of a complex and changing world and to pursue a wide range of rewarding careers.

The Faculty has a special interest in the legal systems of other countries, pursued through the new Institute for Comparative and International Law, the Asian Law Centre and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. As well, the Faculty has established the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, the Centre for Energy and Resources Law and the Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law.

The Law Library aims to provide the collections and library services required by all students, teachers and researchers of law at the University of Melbourne. It has approximately 100,000 printed volumes, the equivalent of about 30,000 volumes of microfiche or microfilm, and a rapidly growing collection of electronic databases, which it makes available through Faculty of Law and University networks.

The Faculty provides staff and students with a wide variety of computer-based resources. These range from word processing to global internet databases.

The Law Library Computer Laboratory is located at the rear of the library building and houses 20 IBM-compatible Pentium computers. It is open to all Law students.

An additional 80 computers are available in a new laboratory located on the first floor of the Baldwin Spencer Building. This laboratory is used periodically for teaching.

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