Courses - Masters Degree


Master of Employment and Labour Relations Law 510

Overview

Major shifts in laws governing the workplace and labour force in Australia mean there is a growing need for knowledge and analysis of employment, and labour relations law is ideal for law and non-law graduates working in the legal profession and the public sector. Melbourne Law School’s employment and labour relations law program is ideal for legal practitioners and for people working in the public sector, private management and personnel services, trade unions and employer groups.

Subjects in the program cover a range of issues and provide in-depth analysis of recent developments in this evolving area.

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Open to students in the program. Please contact the Melbourne Law Masters program manager for information.

Objectives and Skills

The graduate programs in employment and labour relations law focus on:

  • The identification, use and application of legal principles of Australian labour relations law
  • Emerging and contemporary issues in Australian labour relations law
  • Technical aspects of Australian labour relations law using historical, theoretical and practical perspectives
  • Evaluating and synthesising Australian labour relations law scholarship
  • The development of Australian labour relations law in an international (and comparative) context.
Requirements

Students must complete eight subjects in total.

From 2011, Principles of Employment Law is compulsory for students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction, and for these students it is strongly recommended that this subject be taken before any other Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects.

The subject is recommended for students who have not studied an equivalent subject in their law degree, or who have not done so recently.

Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete Fundamentals of the Common Law, as well as at least four subjects from the list of Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects.

The remaining subjects can be taken from the Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects and the Accredited subjects lists.

Students with a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must complete at least four subjects from the list of Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects. The remaining subjects can be taken from the Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects and the Accredited subjects lists.

Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects

*Offered in 2012

  • Bargaining at Work*
  • Employment Contract Law*
  • Equality and Discrimination at Work*
  • Human Rights at Work*
  • International Employment Law*
  • Labour Standards under the Fair Work Act (Cth)*
  • Principles of Employment Law*
  • Workplace Health and Safety*

Accredited subjects

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution*
  • Comparative Law
  • Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties*
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law
  • International Economic and Social Rights
  • International Human Rights Law*
  • International Law and Development*
  • International Sports Employment Law*
  • New Directions in Law and Economics
  • Superannuation Law*
  • Trade, Human Rights and Development*

Links to subjects are available from the tabs above.


Master of Employment and Labour Relations Law 510

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Master of Employment and Labour Relations Law 510