The Private and Commercial Law specialisation provides postgraduate students with advanced insight into the increasingly complex legal environments in which individuals, businesses and corporations operate.
Through a broad selection of specialised courses, students examine private and commercial law across domestic and international contexts, including regulatory design, market governance and commercial dispute resolution. The specialisation fosters in-depth legal analysis, critical engagement with policy and doctrine, and advanced research and writing capability.
The specialisation is highly flexible, allowing students to tailor their studies to their professional interests or career objectives, whether in private practice, the private sector, government or regulatory roles.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop and apply specialist legal knowledge to critically analyse complex private and commercial law problems, concepts and theories, incorporating social, comparative or transdisciplinary approaches.
- Research, evaluate and synthesise case law, legislation and scholarly literature to develop solutions to private and commercial law problems.
- Critically reflect on and communicate theoretical, policy and practical issues in private and commercial law to a range of audiences.
Other Information
Courses counted towards this specialisation can also be counted towards another specialisation, provided they are included in the study requirements for both specialisations
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:
24 units from completion of the following course(s):
LAWS8009 Transnational Anti-Corruption Laws
LAWS8077 Cyber Law
LAWS8101 Blockchain and Legal Innovation I
LAWS8125 Law of Corporate Governance
LAWS8140 Commercial Law
LAWS8142 Tort Liability and Public Authorities
LAWS8144 Conflict of Laws
LAWS8154 Competition Law
LAWS8229 International Trade Law
LAWS8237 Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights
LAWS8243 Freedom of Information and Privacy
LAWS8254 Business, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility
LAWS8336 International Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration
LAWS8338 Cryptoassets and the Law
LAWS8342 International Law and Climate Change
LAWS8402 Media Law
LAWS8405 Artificial Intelligence and the Law
LAWS8407 Digital Economies and the Law
LAWS8418 International Commercial Arbitration
LAWS8421 Income Tax
LAWS8422 Intellectual Property
LAWS8428 Labour Law
LAWS8436 Succession
LAWS8437 Financial Markets and Takeovers
LAWS8445 Information Technology Law
LAWS8454 Restitution
LAWS8459 Consumer Protection and Product Liability Law
LAWS8584 Corporate Insolvency
LAWS8589 Law and Religion in Australia
LAWS8596 Financial Crime Law
LAWS8597 Corporations, Law and Technology
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