Juris Doctor
Units of study
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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2017 Part 2- Elective Units of Study |
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| Students must complete 42 credit points of elective units of study. | |||
| Students may choose a maximum of 30 credit points of units of study from Part 2. | |||
| LAWS5101 Advanced Constitutional Law |
6 | P LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or (LAWS1021 and LAWS2011) or (LAWS5007 and LAWS5011) C LAWS2011 or LAWS5011 N LAWS3027 or LAWS3401 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5104 Advanced Criminal Law |
6 | P LAWS1016 or LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 or LAWS5004 N LAWS3404 |
Semester 1a |
| LAWS5106 Advanced Evidence |
6 | P LAWS2006 or LAWS2016 or LAWS5013 N LAWS3406 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5177 Advanced Obligations and Remedies |
6 | P (LAWS1010 or LAWS1012 or LAWS5001) and (LAWS1002 or (LAWS1015 and LAWS1017) or (LAWS5002 and LAWS5006)) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 or LAWS5015) N LAWS3477 Enrolment is by seperate application to the Law School. |
Intensive July |
| LAWS5109 Advanced Taxation Law |
6 | P LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 or LAWS5112 N LAWS3013 or LAWS3409 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5111 Anti-Discrimination Law |
6 | N LAWS3012 or LAWS3411 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5112 Australian Income Tax |
6 | N LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5113 Banking and Financial Instruments |
6 | P (LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 or LAWS5015) N LAWS3101 or LAWS3413 |
Semester 1 Summer Early |
| LAWS5116 Commercial Dispute Resolution |
6 | N LAWS3006 or LAWS3022 or LAWS3416 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application and priority is given to final year students. |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5117 Commercial Land Law |
6 | P LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 or LAWS5012 N LAWS3417 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5119 Competition Law |
6 | N LAWS3016 or LAWS3419 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5126 Criminology |
6 | N LAWS3020 or LAWS3426 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS5130 Environmental Law |
6 | C LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010 N LAWS3024 or LAWS3430 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5174 Equity and Financial Risk Allocation |
6 | P LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 or LAWS5015 N LAWS3474 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5206 Families, Children and the Law |
6 | N LAWS5132 This unit is an alternative to Family Law |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5132 Family Law |
6 | N LAWS3026 or LAWS3432 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5360 Independent Research Project |
6 | N LAWS3031 or LAWS3115 or LAWS3030 or LAWS3260 or LAWS5315 or LAWS5330 or LAWS5331 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application and is restricted to students in their final year of study who meet the relevant academic criteria. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Early |
| LAWS5135 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law |
6 | N LAWS3005 or LAWS3435 or LAWS6988 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5145 Insolvency Law |
6 | P LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 or LAWS5014 N LAWS3403 or LAWS5103 or LAWS3445 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5203 Insurance Law and Risk |
6 | P LAWS5001 and LAWS5002 and LAWS5006 and LAWS5015 N LAWS3503 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5208 Interdisciplinary Project |
6 | A Students are expected to have completed all core units with the exception of Private International Law A. N INDP3000 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. It is only available to students in their final year of study who have a WAM above 65. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS5143 Interpretation |
6 | P (LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2002 or LAWS1021 or LAWS5007) N LAWS3443 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5180 IP: Copyright and Designs |
6 | N LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS3480 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5179 IP: Trademarks and Patents |
6 | N LAWS3472 or LAWS3033 or LAWS3479 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5146 Labour Law |
6 | N LAWS3023 or LAWS3446 or LAWS6071 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5344 Law International Exchange Electives |
24 | N LAWS3044 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Available to outbound exchange students only. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS5151 Media Law: Contempt and Open Justice |
6 | N LAWS3059 or LAWS3451 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5128 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy |
6 | N LAWS3059 or LAWS3428 |
Semester 1 Summer Early |
| LAWS5152 Medical Law |
6 | N LAWS3046 or LAWS3452 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS5155 Policing, Crime and Society |
6 | N LAWS3048 or LAWS3455 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5209 Redfern Legal Centre Clinic |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their final year of study. |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5160 Roman Law |
6 | N LAWS3052 or LAWS3460 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS5184 Secured Transactions in Commercial Law |
6 | P LAWS2012 or LAWS5008 N LAWS3484 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5161 Social Justice Legal Clinic A |
6 | N LAWS3112 or LAWS3461 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their final year of study. |
Intensive February Semester 1 |
| LAWS5131 Social Justice Legal Clinic B |
6 | N LAWS3025 or LAWS3431 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit is by special application. Enrolment is restricted to students in their final year of study. |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5165 Sydney Law Review |
6 | N LAWS3057 or LAWS3465 Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. For further information, please visit sydney.edu.au/law/slr. |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS5192 Topics in Legal History |
6 | N LAWS3492 |
Semester 1 |
2017 Part 2- Master's Level Electives |
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| Students may choose no more than 24 credit points of master's level units of study in the Juris Doctor. | |||
| LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law |
6 | A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 |
Intensive August |
| LAWS6165 Biodiversity Law |
6 | Intensive April |
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| LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Pre-enrolment registration is required. For further information, please visit Sydney Law School website http://sydney.edu.au/law/ |
Intensive July |
| LAWS6032 Crime Research and Policy |
6 |
Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS6066 Discretion in Criminal Justice |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6984 Economics of Tax Policy |
6 | N LAWS6257 |
Intensive September |
| LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law |
6 | N LAWS6863 |
Intensive September |
| LAWS6354 Environ Planning and Impact Assessment Law |
6 | A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 |
Intensive September |
| LAWS6330 Fundamentals of Regulation |
6 |
Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. |
Intensive September |
| LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A |
6 | Intensive March |
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| LAWS6052 Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics |
6 |
MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252 or LAWS6881. |
Intensive October |
| LAWS6862 Hate Crime |
6 | Intensive March |
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| LAWS6054 Health Care and Professional Liability |
6 |
Core unit for GradDipPubHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252 or LAWS6881. |
Intensive May |
| LAWS6351 IP: Management and Disputes |
6 | A LAWS3480/LAWS5180 Copyright & Designs, LAWS3479/LAWS5179 Trade Marks & Patents or LAWS6873 Principles of Intellectual Property |
Intensive October |
| LAWS6877 Mental Illness: Law and Policy |
6 | Intensive September |
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| LAWS6344 Work, Care and Gender |
6 | A LAWS6252 or a law degree |
Intensive February |
| LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change |
6 | Intensive October |
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