Description

This subject addresses the need for law graduates to have experience in, and be comfortable dealing with, legal problems that cross national boundaries, legal systems and legal cultures. Whether law graduates are looking to work in commercial law, intellectual property, taxation, human rights law, labour law or any other field, international and transnational law will be an essential aspect of their work.

The Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) is a joint venture of leading global law schools, coordinated by Georgetown University’s Law Centre. From September 2008 it will teach semester length programmes in transnational legal studies in the heart of London’s legal quarter. The program will bring together faculty and students from several of the world’s top law schools to study transnational legal issues in a multicultural and transnational setting. Melbourne Law School LLB students in the fourth of fifth year of their degree, may attend the Centre for an intensive semester focused on transnational, international, and comparative law.

Each year, the programme will be taught by faculty from each of the law schools involved in the CTLS, including Free University of Berlin, the University of Fribourg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, King’s College London, the University of Melbourne, the National University of Singapore, the University of Sao Paolo, the University of Torino, and the University of Toronto. Students will be drawn from these universities and others, providing a richly diverse student body.

Melbourne Law School LLB students will undertake a core course focused on transnational legal theory and three optional subjects from the suite of subjects on offer. Several classes will be co-taught by professors from different countries, to facilitate comparative analysis and discussion. The program will also include a weekly workshop featuring some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of international, transnational, and comparative law, and a participatory exercise to introduce students to each other and to the different perspectives that they bring to the Centre. Subjects that are expected to be taught in Fall 2008 (Melbourne’s Semester 2, 2008) include The Law of Work in the Global Economy, Transnational Issues in Art, Culture & Law, The Theory and Practice of Copyright Law: Comparative and Transnational Aspects, International Investment Law, Globalization, Governance & Justice and Contract Theory in Comparative Perspective.

Requisites

Pre-requisites: Legal Method and Reasoning; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law

Recommended: International Law

Students interested in applying for this program for Spring 2009 should complete the application form and return it to Anthony Manahan, Manager, Melbourne Law School Student Centre, by:

Spring (US/UK) 2009: Monday 7 July 2008

A Referee’s Report Form is available here.

The CTLS website can be accessed here.

Scholarships

There are a number of CTLS scholarships available. Visit the CTLS Scholarships webpage for further information and to download an application form. Please submit your application to Anthony Manahan by 5pm on Monday 4 August 2008.

Points: 50