Courses - Graduate Diploma
Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188
- Director of Studies: Ms Anna Chapman, Associate Professor John Howe
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.
Tom Zucker Scholarship
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 four subjects from the list of Employment and Labour Relations Law subjects.
Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction or any prior legal studies or experience are also expected to complete the two-day preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions.
Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188
Director of Studies
- Ms Carol Andrades
- Ms Anna Chapman
- Associate Professor Sean Cooney
- Professor Breen Creighton
- Professor Keith Ewing
- Associate Professor Beth Gaze
- Associate Professor John Howe
- Professor Guy Mundlak
- Mr Paul O'Grady
- Mr Peter Rozen
- Associate Professor Joo-Cheong Tham
- Ms Jennifer Acton, Australian Industrial Relations Commission
- Mr Steven Amendola, Ashurst Australia
- Ms Carol Andrades, Ryan Carlisle Thomas Lawyers
- Mr Josh Bornstein, Maurice Blackburn
- Justice Alan Boulton, Fair Work Australia
- Mr Ben Burke, Baker & McKenzie
- Mr Mark Diserio, Lander & Rogers
- Ms Rachel Doyle SC, Victorian Bar
- Professor Carolyn Evans
- Mr Joel Fetter, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)
- Mr Philip Gardner, Ryan Carlisle Thomas
- Mr Val Gostencnik, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
- Justice Peter Gray, Federal Court of Australia
- Ms Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou, Justitia
- Mr Ross Jackson, Maddocks
- Mr Murray Kellock, King & Wood Mallesons
- Mr Ross Levin, Partner, Rigby Cooke Lawyers
- Mr Peter Lupson, Middletons
- Professor Richard Mitchell, Monash University
- Mr Charles Power, Holding Redlich
- Mr Julian Riekert, Lander & Rogers
- Mr Nick Ruskin, DLA Phillips Fox
- Mr Henry Skene, Arnold Bloch Leibler
- Mr Graeme Smith, Freehills
- Mr Michael Tehan, Minter Ellison Lawyers
- Mr Jamie Wells, Allens Arther Robinson
- Mr Nicholas Wilson, Fair Work Ombudsman
Lecturers - 2012
Advisory Board
- The Hon. Justice Anthony North, Federal Court of Australia (Chair)
Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188
Course Subjects for 2012
- Bargaining at Work (Formerly Bargaining at Work and Industrial Action)
- Employment Contract Law (Formerly Employment Law)
- Equality and Discrimination at Work (Formerly Anti-Discrimination Law at Work)
- Human Rights at Work
- International Employment Law (Formerly International and Comparative Labour Law)
- Labour Standards under the Fair Work Act (Cth) (Formerly Regulating Working Conditions)
- Principles of Employment Law
- Workplace Health and Safety
Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188
# Offered in 2012
All Subjects
- Bargaining at Work (Formerly Bargaining at Work and Industrial Action) #
- Employment Contract Law (Formerly Employment Law) #
- Equality and Discrimination at Work (Formerly Anti-Discrimination Law at Work) #
- Human Rights at Work #
- International Employment Law (Formerly International and Comparative Labour Law) #
- Labour Standards under the Fair Work Act (Cth) (Formerly Regulating Working Conditions) #
- Principles of Employment Law #
- Workplace Health and Safety #

