This specialisation will provide you with an insight into the increasingly complex global environment in which individuals and corporations operate. The broad selection of courses, in areas as diverse as sports law and corporate social responsibility, allows you to focus your studies on areas of specific interest to your current, or future, career.
This specialisation is highly flexible, allowing you to choose courses that are compatible with your current profession or that extend your knowledge in new directions. Whether you are working in private practice, the private sector or within government or are looking to expand your legal knowledge for a future career – this program offers diversity, flexibility and knowledge suitable for a wide range of students.
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate complex problems, concepts and theories in private and commercial law and devise solutions appropriate to the specific context.
- undertake legal research, legal writing and resolution of complex legal problems with a private and commercial dimension across a range of issues and topics of a national or international character.
- research and write on the practice or theory of private and commercial law including in-depth legal research in the private and commercial law field.
- incorporate social, policy, comparative or interdisciplinary approaches into legal analysis of private and commercial law issues.
- communicate legal, policy and theoretical perspectives of private and commercial legal issues effectively to a range of audiences, both verbally and in writing.
- structure, sustain and evaluate legal argument in both general and specialist areas of private and commercial law.
- develop and apply legal knowledge to complex private and commercial legal problems in an analytical and creative manner.
Other Information
Courses counted towards this specialisation can also be counted towards another specialisation, provided they are listed on the Study Tab under the relevant specialisation.
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
- LAWS8072 Statutory Interpretation
- LAWS8077 Cyber Law
- LAWS8104 Legislation and Legislative Drafting
- LAWS8125 Law of Corporate Governance
- LAWS8140 Commercial Law
- LAWS8142 Tort Liability and Public Authorities
- LAWS8144 Conflict of Laws
- LAWS8154 Competition Law
- LAWS8218 Advanced Contracts
- LAWS8220 Government Contracts
- LAWS8229 International Trade Law
- LAWS8243 Freedom of Info & Priv
- LAWS8254 Business and Human Rights
- LAWS8335 Equity and Contemporary Issues
- LAWS8336 International Investment Law
- LAWS8338 Cryptoassets and the Law
- LAWS8341 Work and the Gig Economy
- LAWS8402 Media Law
- LAWS8405 AI, Law & Society
- LAWS8407 Digital Economies and the Law
- LAWS8421 Income Tax
- LAWS8422 Intellectual Property
- LAWS8428 Labour Law
- LAWS8436 Succession
- LAWS8437 Financial Markets & Takeovers
- LAWS8445 Information Tech Law
- LAWS8454 Restitution
- LAWS8459 Consumer Protection
- LAWS8584 Corporate Insolvency
- LAWS8587 Legal Framework of Regulation
- LAWS8589 Law and Religion in Australia
- LAWS8596 Financial Crime Law