Bulletin

Issue: September 2005

News

La Trobe Law goes global in a big way

La Trobe University's Masters program in Global Business Law is going global in a big way - with fourteen leading American and European legal academics teaching units in 2005 and 2006.

Professor Osborne emphasised that the aim of the proposal was not to transplant a metropolitan program into a regional setting since this would not address the national problem of a shortage of regional and rural medical practitioners.

Designed for domestic students and overseas students with a suitable law degree from their home jurisdiction, La Trobe University Professor of Law, Gordon Walker, says the LLM in Global Business Law has proved extremely popular, particularly among foreign lawyers seeking admission to practice in Australia.

The degree, by coursework, can be completed in two semesters or less and is delivered in 'block release' mode.

Units for summer 2005-2006 and winter 2006 range from competition law, US entertainment, contracts, torts, asset securitisation, securities regulation and antitrust law to Chinese company and securities law, international commercial arbitration and an introduction to European Union law.

Professor Walker says the units can also be taken as electives by final year undergraduate La Trobe law students.

Further information from Professor Walker, Tel: (03) 9479 1462 Email: Gordon.Walker@latrobe.edu.au