Master of Laws draft

Program Overview

This specialized law program, taught by renowned faculty and designed for practicing lawyers and graduates, equips students with advanced knowledge and skills to navigate the modern legal landscape. With a comprehensive course structure offering a wide range of elective units, the program prepares graduates for successful careers in law, government, business, and more. The program also fosters critical thinking, ethical scholarship, and a supportive learning environment.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course is designed to equip practicing lawyers and law graduates with an advanced understanding of the law to meet the challenges of the dynamic workplace. You’ll learn from world-class teaching staff and study with the next generation of leaders in legal practice, government, business and the not-for-profit sector.

Outline:

• Course Structure: Postgraduate coursework degrees and combined (coursework and research) degrees comprise a number of units.
• Option - Group A:
Take unit(s) to the value of 48 points:
• LAWS5100 Sustainability Law and Policy in Resource Development (6)
• LAWS5105 Remedies (6)
• LAWS5114 International Environmental Law (6)
• LAWS5117 Advanced Evidence and Proof (6)
• LAWS5118 Family Law (6)
• LAWS5128 Consumer Law (6)
• LAWS5132 Income Taxation Law (6)
• LAWS5144 Mining and Energy Law (6)
• LAWS5150 Intellectual Property Law (6)
• LAWS5152 Media Law (6)
• LAWS5160 Law Review Part 1 (0)
• LAWS5161 Law Review Part 2 (6)
• LAWS5165 Public International Law (6)
• LAWS5167 Comparative Legal Method (6)
• LAWS5176 Australian Financial Transactions Law and Regulation (6)
• LAWS5179 Law of the Sea (6)
• LAWS5181 Health Law and Policy (6)
• LAWS5219 International Criminal Law (6)
• LAWS5220 International Humanitarian Law (6)
• LAWS5223 Theories for Contemporary Criminal Justice (6)
• LAWS5226 International Human Rights Law (6)
• LAWS5230 Aviation Law (6)
• LAWS5231 Advanced Capital Gains Tax (6)
• LAWS5232 Double Tax Agreements and International Tax Law (6)
• LAWS5233 Base Erosion, Profit Shifting and Transfer Pricing (6)
• LAWS5234 Taxation of Trusts (6)
• LAWS5235 Taxation Law of a Foreign State (6)
• LAWS5236 Advanced Australian Corporate Taxation (6)
• LAWS5237 Advanced Australian International Taxation (6)
• LAWS5238 Goods and Services Taxation (6)
• LAWS5239 Resource Taxation (6)
• LAWS5240 Tax Dispute Resolution (6)
• LAWS5251 International Sales Law (6)
• LAWS5254 International Trade Law (6)
• LAWS5261 Planning Law (6)
• LAWS5305 Mediation: Practice and Skills (6)
• LAWS5358 Innovations in Lawyering (6)
• LAWS5360 Employment Law (6)
• LAWS5378 Government Accountability—Law and Practice (6)
• LAWS5398 Construction Law (6)
• LAWS5503 Conflict of Laws (6)
• LAWS5507 International Oil and Gas Law (6)
• LAWS5517 Mining Law (6)
• LAWS5521 Climate Change Law and Emissions Trading (6)
• LAWS5528 Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (6)
• LAWS5532 Energy Agreements: Oil and Gas, Alternative Energy and Sustainability (6)
• LAWS5540 Environmental Protection Law (6)
• LAWS5541 Equity Capital Markets & Securities Regulation (6)
• LAWS5576 International Commercial Arbitration (6)
• LAWS5577 Space and Satellite Law (6)
• LAWS5589 Energy Regulation: sustainable oil and gas and alternative energy production (6)
• LAWS5590 Water Resources Law (6)
• LAWS5694 Research Paper I (6)
• LAWS5695 Research Paper II (12)
• LAWS5696 Research Paper III Part 1 (6)
• LAWS5697 Research Paper III Part 2 (6)
• LAWS5891 Principles and Practice of General Insurance Law (6)
• SVLG5001 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship (6)

Teaching:

• You'll learn from world-class teaching staff, current or former lawyers or former judges.
• The degree contains exciting elective units, such as Media Law and Space Law, Satellites and Drones.

Careers:

• This course provides law graduates with advanced reasoning, knowledge and research skills which are highly valued by employers in our increasingly complex and dynamic workplace.
• While many graduates go on to successful careers as policy advisors, lawyers, academics or in-house counsel, many also choose not to practise law.
• Instead, their qualifications enhance their employment opportunities in areas across business, government and non-government organisations.

Other:

• The UWA Law School is ranked in the top 150 law schools in the world for Law and Legal Studies (QS 2023).
• You will join and contribute to 90 years of excellence: we were the first law school established in WA and the fifth oldest in Australia.
• Our graduates include a Prime Minister, a Governor of Western Australia, State Ministers, Justices of the Supreme Court of WA, a Young Australian of the Year, Rhodes Scholars, and more.
• While we have a long and proud history, we're also a closely-knit, creative and progressive Law School, fostering critical thought, ethical scholarship and practice, a deep connection to our Indigenous past and present, and supportive student culture based upon wellbeing and inclusion.