ObjectivesThe Master of Law and Development focuses on: * The processes and actors involved in the legalisation of development * The history and range of rule of law or law reform projects initiated by international and regional institutions * The role of international economic institutions in proposing, designing and implementing law reform projects * Development strategies enabled or foreclosed by attempts at law reform or legal institutional design * The success or failure of particular attempts at law reform or rule of law initiatives * Theoretical approaches to understanding and critiquing law and development initiatives.
Academic titleMaster of Law and Development
Course descriptionStudents who do not have a law degree from a common law system must complete Fundamentals of the Common Law, as well as at least six subjects from the prescribed list (including the compulsory subject Law and Development). You may choose an eighth subject from those available in the Melbourne Law Masters.
Students with a law degree from a common law system must complete at least six subjects from the prescribed list (including the compulsory subject Law and Development). You may choose your final two subjects from those available in the Melbourne Law Masters (excluding Fundamentals of the Common Law).