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Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188

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

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Graduate Diploma in Employment and Labour Relations Law 188