Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This course is designed to meet the needs of practising lawyers and of senior public and private sector managers who have had experience in the field of government contracting.

The course will examine the use of contract for various public purposes and will analyse the legal issues that are peculiar to government contracting.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a: Master of Laws (7300XLLM, MLLM), Master of Laws in Migration (NLLML), Master of Laws in International Law (NLLIL), Master of Laws in Environmental Law (NLLEN), Master of Laws in Law, Governance & Development (NLLGD), Master of Laws in International Security Law (NLLSL), Master of Laws in Government and Regulation (NLLGR), Master of Legal Practice (MLEGP), OR Juris Doctor (7330XJD, 7330HJD or MJD) and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses or five 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law (CLAW) and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law (MMILL). Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Interested in how laws, legal work or legal practice affect people and outcomes in regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas in Australia or other parts of the world? Interested in where lawyers and others, whose work or activities affect RRR areas are located and why this may matter? 

The course asks how laws, legal work and legal practices operate and affect what may be achieved by individuals and groups, businesses and governments, communities and communities of interest - in and in relation to regional, rural and remote areas. 

Come and explore whether, how and why RRR legal problems are different and how creative thinking and creative practices can help you address RRR legal issues in new ways.

The course will help you conceptualise the roles lawyers play in relation to law and legal issues in RRR areas. Using a lens of complexity focusing on linkages, systems and inter-connections and using cutting edge tools such as problem representation, problem patterns and reflexivity, you will explore how laws and legal work in many locations, sectors and contexts relate to the RRR. Around the other way, you will use tools to explore how those in RRR areas may draw on legal and other resources within and outside the RRR. 

You will also explore how international, economic, political and other dimensions and developments can affect the RRR, how law and lawyers in the international are involved and how issues may vary between countries and locations around the world. 

This course will challenge you to further develop and apply your knowledge, skills and creativity to help unpack and work on RRR legal problems. This includes endemic, systemic and structural legal problems being problems which are entrenched, persistent and strongly associated with adverse outcomes. 

The course will enable you to experience and participate in a dynamic community of practice in relation to these issues. 

Topics in the course include: 

Conceptual approaches to the regional, rural and remote (RRR) and their effects

Exploring who works on RRR legal and related issues, where and what is involved 

Identifying factors which affect how laws operate in RRR areas and the effects

Characterisations of RRR legal problems, implications and effects 

Roles of lawyers, lawyering types and outcomes for RRR clients, law and justice 

Working on endemic, structural and systemic RRR legal problems 

Adaptability, resourcefulness and creativity as tools in addressing RRR law, lawyering and justice issues

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws OR Master of Legal Practice OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

This course allows students to apply the knowledge they have learned in Blockchain & Legal Innovation I to solving systemic legal problems by completely re-imagining how particular relationships or transactions can be automated by fusing traditional legal services with the "Lex Automagica" tech-sytack of blockchain, digital assets, smart contracts and AI. We begin with some initial workshops and a case study. Then the focus is on mentor-assisted team-based projects, applying knowledge from the previous course to the problem of designing specific solutions. The major assessment is a research or whitepaper addressing the technical and regulatory barriers to an original, innovatve, and holistic solution to a systemic legal problem, such as digital identity, bockchain-based real estate, online dispute resolution, international trade, money, finance and securities, government regulation and oversight, or any of the other potential use-cases for blockchain and smart contract technology.

To enrol in this course you must be studying one of the following programs and have completed LGEM8001 Blockchain & Legal Innovation I:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice, Juris Doctor, Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

'Skilled, employer sponsored and business visas’ takes students through the statutory framework and its application to visas relating to skilled, employer sponsored and business visas. It enables students to understand the context and working mechanisms of these complex visa systems. Students will experience migration legislation in operation through statutory interpretation and analysis, review and analysis of complex cases in examining the range of specific requirements of these visas.

Taught online, this course will increase students’ knowledge and skills in practice by teaching them to analyse complex cases and correctly interpret legislation and policy. Students will learn how to apply their integrated knowledge to help in providing migration related services and in managing client and stakeholder relationships. Students will be required to conduct research to evaluate law and policy on skilled and business migration and prepare submissions for the consideration of government decision makers in relation to visa applications.

The course complements and expands the knowledge and skills needed in professional legal practice. It is one of the four courses on aspects of migration law and practice. The other three course are 'Principles of Australian Migration Law and Practice', 'Family, humanitarian and other non-skilled visas' and 'Compliance, visa cancellation and review'.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis.

Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

'Compliance, visa cancellation and review' takes students into the fascinating world of migration compliance and sanction regime as set out in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) and Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) and explores a range of mechanisms for review of migration and refugee related decisions 'when things go wrong'. Through investigations, critical analysis and effective advocacy on issues such as visa cancellation and refusal, this course offers unique insight into the operations of Australia's immigration compliance system. The course also enables students to examine review options (including ministerial intervention) and complaints to the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Australian Human Rights Commission.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

Although a subset of legal drafting, commercial drafting is extremely broad, with areas like contract law, corporate law, banking and finance and intellectual property constituting well established specialisations in legal practice.

Principal topics in this online course include:

• Drafting techniques;
• Structure of commercial contracts;
• Sources of ambiguity and drafting solutions; and
• Specific contract drafting issues (e.g. dispute resolution clauses and confidentiality clauses).

A professional background in commercial law is not a pre-requisite to the course. Legal drafting covers the whole range of legal practice – an almost impossibly broad range as attempts such as Butterworths Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents demonstrates. A comprehensive coverage of commercial legal content areas is not possible in this course. Rather, the course covers drafting techniques and a range of particular drafting issues to prepare students for the two major assessment tasks of Document Analysis and Original Drafting. 

In addition, it is important for students to note that, although contractual interpretation/construction is relevant to much of commercial drafting, due to the practical focus of this course, we will not be providing in depth coverage on this aspect of contract law. The course will provide students with practice and feedback in solving common drafting problems, particularly in a commercial context.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

This course examines Human Rights Litigation in relation to the following topics:

• Review of human rights legislation (Federal, ACT and Victoria)
• Examination and analysis of Human Rights Remedies
• Human rights litigation procedures and claims
• Pleadings aspects in human rights matters
• Current developments in human rights litigation
• Prospects for further development in remedies
• The ACT Human Rights experience
• A possible Commonwealth Human Rights Act
• Preparing and proving human rights claims
• Enforcing human rights in Australia
• Human Rights and the United Nations - the Australian experience
• Some international aspects of human rights, particularly in the United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

A research paper of 12,000 - 16,000 words in length on an approved topic in Legal Practice. The topic must be approved by the MLP Program Director and the appointed supervisor in consultation.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a Master of Legal Practice, have completed at least two 8000 level LAWS courses and have a distinction average across 12 units of 8000 level LAWS courses.

You will need to contact the ANU School of Legal Practice to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

The course examines how family law disputes are resolved under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth). It also examines the social and political context of family law, critically examining the values that inform it. As it is not possible to cover all of the legal rules under the Family Law Act in one semester, this course will provide an in-depth and integrated understanding of the legal principles and skills that are central to ‘bread and butter’ family law practice. The course is structured such that the student will gain knowledge of, and the ability to apply, the key legal principles in the first 8 weeks of the course. In the latter part of the course, the course will critically examine a selected family law topic in more depth.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed LAWS4217 Family Law or LAWS8417 Family Law

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

While originally coined in 2006 by Tarana Burke, a social activist and community organiser, the #MeToo movement moved into the spotlight in 2017 when several female celebrities accused film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and assault. Since then, women (and some men) around the world have shared their experiences with sexual violence and harassment across social media and the press using both #metoo and #timesup. These hashtags aimed not just to bring the issues to the collective attention, but to end sexual violence and discrimination in all their forms by breaking the silence around gender-based violence and promoting social change.

In this module, we discuss the issues #metoo raised for the criminal justice system and civil courts, while considering the broader socio-legal interface to explore potential further points for improving equality and addressing inequity for those experiencing sexual violence and harassment, including in the legal profession itself. The module brings experts from their respective issues to ask: What did #metoo highlight? What legal changes did it initiate? What work is there still to be done?

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws; OR Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

This course aims to provide an advanced understanding of how law and regulation relate to current debates about corporate responsibility and business respect for human rights standards. What would constitute an ideal regulatory and remedial framework on the human rights impacts of business activity? What commercial, political or social forces and factors shape these issues in practice?

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws; OR Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had adverse impacts that were felt globally. By raising issues for governments around the world, it was immediately evident that the magnitude of the pandemic went way beyond the reach of individual states. The pandemic triggered not only domestic action but international legal responses, which themselves rather swiftly came under fire.  Both action and inaction exposed what some felt were a number of normative gaps at the international level.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws; OR Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2250/LAWS6250 International Law; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be among the primary catalysts of social, economic, scientific, political and legal change in the 21st century. Discussions of AI regulation have gathered force in the wake of notable performance leaps in Machine Learning (ML) — a family of statistical techniques enabling an algorithm to ‘learn’ over time and optimise performance at a task. These advances have yielded marked improvements in related research areas such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP) and data analytics. Given the transformative potential of AI and other features of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ there are concerns about how far the law can, and should, adapt to the profound technological changes upon us, and those that lie ahead. If legal adaptation is too slow, these changes can threaten rights, stifle innovation, or catalyse public, environmental and existential risks. If technological change is too fast or ill-conceived, it might be ineffectual, disrupt societal expectations, and undermine the rule of law or public trust essential to a data-driven government. However, if the attainment of non-biological intelligence will be as consequential an event in human history as some suggest, and humanity will only have one shot at ‘getting it right’ the first time, how the law manages this transition—or whether it can—becomes a matter of existential consequence.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws; OR Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

Interested in social justice and ways law and lawyering are involved? Come and explore ways of lawyering or working with lawyers to advance prospects for reform, justice and inclusion locally, nationally and internationally. 

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws; Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

In this course we will explore, critique and apply various aspects of the law that affect the media, and newsgathering and reportage practices. We will analyse the normative underpinnings of press freedom, before examining the ways in which the law protects media and journalists as such, and the ways in which media and journalists, as such, are regulated by law. We will analyse, evaluate and apply laws that can restrict media and journalists, including state surveillance powers, defamation law, privacy protection, trespass, and contempt of court. 

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses or five 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the End of Year ceremony.

Commercialisation is the process by which an intellectual property owner (or a person authorised by the intellectual property owner) takes the intellectual property to market. Technology transfer is the process of transferring skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctorand have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

Advocacy is, in many ways, a specialised form of presentation, conducted within specific rules, processes and procedures. In this Advocacy course, you will have the opportunity to experience, both from the theoretical and practical, in practice perspectives that are the key elements of good Advocacy.

In this course, you will: 

• analyse case theories; 
• consider, discuss, prepare and perform competent examination and cross-examination of both lay and expert witnesses; 
• understand the principles and procedural requirements for experts’ reports; 
• consider, discuss, prepare and present competent openings and final submissions.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

This course examines the practice of international law in the Australian Government.  Attention will be given to the government structures through which advice is provided and how advice is generated.  The course includes a focus on the practice of international negotiation, the conduct of international litigation and the process through which the Australian Parliament considers treaties. 

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws , Master of Legal Practice,  OR Juris Doctor, have completed or be completing five 1000 or 6100 level LAWS courses and have completed LAWS2250/LAWS6250 International Law; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law. 

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

In the Australian natural resource context this gives rise to familiar challenges for resource sectors associated with land and coastal resources including forestry, mining and fisheries. But there are also specific environmental pressures relevant to the Australian continent in relation to: the use of land resources (under pressure from both the mining sector and agricultural vegetation clearance); the management and protection of increasingly scarce subterranean and surface waters; and, also the protection of Australia’s wealth of biodiversity (both terrestrial and marine).

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice, OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses or five 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.

The content of this course may vary from year to year.  Please see Other Information below for details of any special courses currently on offer.

To enrol in this course you must be studying a:

Master of Laws, Master of Legal Practice; OR Juris Doctor and have completed or be completing five 1000 level LAWS courses or five 6100 level LAWS courses; OR Graduate Certificate of Law and have completed or be completing LAWS8586 Law and Legal Institutions; OR Master of Military Law.

Students undertaking any ANU graduate program may apply for this course. Enrolments are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the ANU College of Law for permission number.

Note: If you successfully complete this course and are in your final semester/term, you will be eligible to graduate in the Mid-Year ceremony.