Faculty of Law : Guide to courses

1. Introduction to the Faculty of Law

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 1. Introduction to the Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law provides an excellent legal education in a challenging intellectual environment. Flexible, innovative and progressive programs are taught by highly qualified academic staff, many of whom have published important works in their area of expertise. Established in 1873, the Faculty has a national and international reputation for outstanding scholarship and research, and continues to strive for excellence through on-going critical review and innovation.

The Faculty has established six specialist centres offering undergraduate and postgraduate students depth of teaching and research expertise in Asian Law; Comparative Constitutional Studies; Corporate Law and Securities Regulation; Employment and Labour Relations Law; Energy and Resources Law; and Media, Communications and Information Technology Law.

The Faculty recently established the Institute for Comparative and International Law, acknowledging the impact on law of globalisation and the need to learn about the great diversity of legal systems.

Completion of the Bachelor of Law program will take about 3-4 years as a full-time student. Most students choose to study two degrees simultaneously, taking 5-6 years. Combined degrees are offered with Arts, Commerce, Computer Science, Engineering, Geomatics or Science, enabling graduates to pursue a wider range of rewarding careers. Students are encouraged to take up exchange placements with law schools in other countries. Credit is given towards the Bachelor of Law degree for subjects successfully completed on an overseas program. The Faculty of Law provides students with a wide variety of computer-based resources and an open-access student laboratory comprising 100 IBM desktop computers. The range of programs and resources is constantly being improved and includes: access to Internet information resources; CD ROM-based databases, for example, index to legal periodicals; electronic mail and various utility programs. The Law Library has approximately 100,000 printed volumes, the equivalent of about 30,000 volumes in microfiche or microfilm, and a rapidly growing collection of electronic databases, which it makes available through Faculty and University networks.

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