Graduate Teaching
Program Requirements | Optional Subjects | Other Accredited Subjects
The Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law plays a leading role in the Asia-Pacific region in the provision of graduate legal education in Australian, international and comparative labour relations law. The Centre’s graduate teaching plays a major role in Melbourne Law School’s extensive graduate studies program.
Members of the Centre are engaged in supervising research higher degree projects, and also in teaching subjects within the Law School’s coursework degree programs.
Research Programmes
The Law School offers three courses of study leading to the award of a higher degree by research:
- LLM by thesis
- SJD (includes a coursework component)
- PhD
Click here for more information on the Centre’s work in supervising research higher degree projects.
Click here for more information on the Law School’s courses of study leading to the award of a higher degree by research.
Coursework Programmes
The Melbourne Law School offers an extensive postgraduate program in labour relations law. The program provides a stimulating, interactive environment where lawyers, policy advisers and HR and IR practitioners can examine the key issues in labour relations law in Australia and internationally. Subjects in the program may be taken toward one of four coursework qualifications:
- Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations Law: 4 subjects
- Master of Labour Relations Law: 8 subjects
- LLM by coursework (specialising in labour law): 8 subjects
- LLM by coursework and minor thesis: 4 subjects and minor thesis
Members and associates of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, together with international visiting scholars, are responsible for teaching all subjects for credit toward the specialist programs in labour relations law.
All candidates for either the Graduate Diploma or the Master of Labour Relations Law must complete the following three compulsory subjects:
730-831 Regulating Individual Work Relationships;
730-828 Regulating Working Conditions; and
730-760 Bargaining at Work and Industrial Action.
A candidate who does not have a law degree from a common law system must complete the preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions, which does not count as one of the four subjects required to complete the Graduate Diploma, or as one of the eight subjects required to complete the Master of Labour Relations Law. A candidate for any Masters degree who does not have a law degree from a common law system must also complete the subject Fundamentals of the Common Law.
In any event, it is strongly recommended that a candidate who does not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction should take the subject Regulating Individual Work Relationships before attempting the other compulsory subjects in the Labour Relations Law Program.
All candidates may then choose their remaining courses from the following lists of subjects. Not all of these subjects are offered every year; just follow the links to find out whether the subject that you are interested in is being offered this year:
730-630 Anti Discrimination Law at Work
730-853 International and Comparative Labour Law
730-653 Researching Labour Law
730-829 Trade Unions and Freedom of Association
730-664 Workplace Health and Safety
730-621 Alternative Dispute Resolution
730-618 Comparative Law
730-821 Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties
730-852 Fundamentals of the Common Law
730-677 International Economic and Social Rights
730-897 International Human Rights Law
730-712 Law and Development
730-768 Regulation and the Law
730-738 Sports Labour Law
730-643 Superannuation Law
730-744 Trade, Human Rights and Development
730-713 New Directions in Law and Economics
For further information on these degree programs and subjects, please visit the Graduate Studies Website.
The Melbourne JD
The Melbourne Law School also conducts a program of graduate study leading to the award of a degree of Juris Doctor. This program is specifically designed for graduates from disciplines other than law, with significant employment experience, and for lawyers with a civil law degree. Students in the JD program may have the opportunity to take one or more subjects from the graduate program in labour relations law toward their degree. For information about the JD program, please visit the following website http://jd.law.unimelb.edu.au/