9. The Melbourne LLB

The Melbourne LLB is innovative, forward looking and responsive to the changing needs of legal practice and scholarship. A feature of the law course at Melbourne is the seminar format of teaching in first-year subjects. Students are taught in small groups, which allows the maximum degree of student-teacher and student-student interaction. Significant perspectives on law (cross-cutting influences) are developed in a coordinated way throughout the curriculum. The cross-cutting influences particularly pertinent to the Melbourne LLB include: legal theory, ethics, comparative approaches to law, regulation, legal history, indigenous culture, law and policy, inter-cultural approaches, theoretical perspectives on law, cross jurisdictional law and practice, law reform and policy, and interdisciplinary influences on the law.

The Melboure LLB also has a range of optional subjects which has been designed to enable students to acquire knowledge in a range of different areas of law to deepen their understanding of particular areas of law. These optional subjects are grouped into the following broad areas: Asian Law; Corporate and Commercial Law; Criminal Law and Justice; Dispute Resolution; Family Law; Indigenous issues in the Law; Intellectual Property; Media and Information Technology Law; International and Comparative Law; Labour Law; Legal Theory; Taxation Law.

9.1. LLB course objectives

This course has as its objectives that graduates:

understand, and can identify, use, and evaluate rules, concepts, and principles of law, their derivation, and the various theories that attempt to systematise them;
have acquired the techniques of legal reasoning and argument, in oral and written form;
understand the institutions of the law, and their social, economic and poltical context;
have learnt to find the law, to carry out independent research and anlysis, and to think creatively about legal problems;
have a continuing interest in law and obtain satisfaction from its study and practice;
develop a critical interests in the reform of the law;
can appreciate the responsibilities of lawyers to the courts, the legal profession, the community and individuals within it; and
are committed to promote justice

9.2. LLB course structure

The majority of our students chooses to study law in combination with another degree. Double degrees require an additional 2-300 points of non-law subjects and can be completed after five or six years of study. Students normally study a combination of subjects from both faculties during the first four years. During this initial period you will complete the compulsory law subjects, some optional law subjects and most, if not all, of your non-law subjects. During the last year of the course, you complete the remaining number of optional law subjects. When you have completed all the required subjects you are admitted to the two degrees.

The following double degrees are available for study in 2007:

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9. The Melbourne LLB

9.1. LLB course objectives

9.2. LLB course structure