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Professional electives
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Professional Electives:
The Faculty of Law is offering a number of Professional Elective units for JD students to satisfy one of the requirements in the Master of Laws (Juris Doctor).
The details about the range of compulsory Juris Doctor (JD) Professional Constrained Electives can be viewed under the heading: “Part D: Extending Specialist Expertise: Specialist Law Electives” here or below.
Students must complete at least one professional elective from the list below:
- LAW4803 Clinical placement
- LAW4811 In-house clinical placement
- LAW5050 Professional practice (JD) (12 points)*
- LAW5052 Professional project
- LAW5055 Vis arbitration moot
- LAW5056 Jessup moot competition
- LAW5058 Mooting and advocacy competition
- LAW5083 Extended research (12 points)***
- LAW5355 Advocacy
* This unit has a prerequisite which is achievement of at least twelve units or 72 credit points towards the Master of Laws (Juris Doctor) to include: LAW5001, LAW5002, LAW5005 and LAW5003 or equivalent.
***This unit requires that students have completed four elective units and obtained 70 per cent or above in each of the units. A quota applies.
Enrolment guidelines for Professional Elective units:
There are specific processes and enrolment guidelines associated with taking up the Professional Elective units.
Students interested in taking up these units are advised to take note of and follow the enrolment steps listed in the links below:
- LAW4803/LAW4811: Clinical & In-house clinical placement
- LAW5050: Professional Practice (JD)
- LAW5055: Vis Arbitration Moot
- LAW5056: Jessup Moot Competition
- LAW5083: Extended research
- Please select and complete the application form in the Faculty of Law Forms section. Instructions about the application process is explained on the form.
- LAW5355: Advocacy
- Students interested in enrolling in LAW5355 must enrol using the Web Enrolment System. If the unit is full, students can put themselves on the wait list.
- Please note that the unit will not appear in WES if the unit is full.