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Electives Beyond the Classroom
Moot — 76900
Offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2022/23, Autumn 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2023
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Assessment: A1 - Preparation of Memorials (Written Submissions) A2 - Participation in Mooting Competitions (100%)
Exchange Subject — 76801
Offered: Spring 2022, Autumn 2023, Spring 2023
Assessment: Pass fail, no marks Brief Overview: Do you have a passion for Mooting? This subject will familiarise you with the various mooting competitions at a national level. Mooting provides students with an invaluable opportunity to develop courtroom skills, research experience and the practical experience to complement a law degree.
Mooting involves partaking in a mock-court experience, persuasively arguing a case in a court setting, applying research, and oral skills. Getting involved with the mooting program run by the UTS Law Students’ Society can equip you with the skill and experience to partake in this elective.
Please note: 70102 Foundations of Law is a prerequisite for this subject. This subject is by invitation only.
Brief Overview: Have the past few years of closed borders made you more eager than ever to study overseas? Undertaking an international exchange is the ideal opportunity to complete part of your study in another country while receiving credits for your law degree at UTS. Students are able to undertake three or four law options at an exchange partner university. Applicants for exchange must have their study at the exchange partner university approved by UTS Law’s exchange director. Students are encouraged to study subjects that are international or comparative in nature.
Please note: 70517 Equity and Trusts is a prerequisite for this subject.
Local & International Internships
Staff Introduction: Professor Beth Goldblatt The Faculty’s creative, innovative and practical approach to learning whilst building strong industry links has led to the development of experiential local and international learning opportunities for our students. Internships offer students the opportunity to gain local or international experience and develop practical skills through work on a real world; legal project. Internships allow students to build on their studies and involve work of an appropriately demanding standard to model professional work or practice. They give students the opportunity to build upon their theoretical knowledge in an applied setting. Students are able to gain academic credit by enrolling into these specialist subjects as an elective.
Offered: Spring 2022, Autumn 2023, Spring 2023 Brief Overview: Want to gain practical legal experience? Want to develop your professional skills in law? Then the Local Internship elective is the perfect opportunity for you.
This elective will provide you with invaluable experience working in the professional legal sphere and is definitely a big tick for the resume.
You will have the opportunity to bring your knowledge from the classroom and apply it in the legal working environment. Through your participation in an 11-week internship, you will learn valuable skills from the various legal professionals you will encounter during your time there. An internship will expose you to the real world of legal practitioners and can help shape your future career trajectory.
Please note: 70617 Administrative Law is a prerequisite for this subject.
Assessment: A1 - Critical Reflection (60%) A2 - Internship Placement Project: Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory (0%) A3 - Debrief Presentation (40%)
Staff Contribution: Professor Beth Goldblatt Our local internship program provides students with the opportunity to obtain practical legal experience and to develop professional skills through work with a local host organisation. The subject involves participation in an internship, usually one day per week for 11 weeks, during the Autumn and Spring sessions. There are additional academic requirements including a preparatory workshop, reflective journals and a post-internship presentation. We have a comprehensive range of host organisations providing internships. This includes opportunities with commercial organisations such as Stockland and Westpac, various law and technology options, as well as social justice placements such as with Marrickville Legal Centre and the National Justice Project.
International Legal Internship — 76098
Offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2022/23, Spring 2023, Summer 2023
Assessment: A1 - Critical Reflection (50%) A2 - Project Debrief (50%)
Staff Contribution: Professor Beth Goldblatt Our international internship program has the additional benefit of exposing students to legal practice in a global context. This subject provides students with an opportunity to gain international and practical legal experience so as to develop professional skills through the real world; legal work. Internships involve a minimum of 20 working days, usually over the Winter break or Summer. Students are able to find their own legal placement at an eligible organisation or apply for a Faculty or UTS sourced placement. For the past two years placements have been virtual due to Covid-19 but students will be travelling overseas to take up placements by Summer 2022. Please keep an eye on the website for a list of opportunities or chat to us about options. UTS and the Australian government assist with funding for overseas internships. Brief Overview: Interested in taking your legal degree abroad? Want to gain practical legal experience in a global context?
Then you should consider applying for an International Legal Internship which will contribute credit points towards your degree.
International and practical legal experience will provide you with ‘real-world’ legal work, and give you the chance to reflect on your practical learning and the relationship to your academic education and legal skills. Overall, the international internship promotes cross cultural awareness, adaptability and resourcefulness. This subject encourages students to think of themselves as future global professionals.
Please note: This subject is taught at a Master’s level which requires independent study. Additionally, 70617 Administrative law is a prerequisite for this subject.
Electives beyond the Classroom (cont.)
International And Comparative Study In Law — 76099
Offered: Summer 2022/23, Autumn 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2023
Assessment: Pass fail, no marks
Jessup International Moot — 76039
Offered: Summer 2022/23, Summer 2023
Assessment: A1 - Group Applicant and Respondent Memorials (33%) A2 - Oral Submissions (67%)
Offered: Autumn 2023
Assessment: A1 - Submission of Written Submissions for Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot (84%) A2 - International Oral Submissions Bonus (16%) A3: Participating in International Rounds of Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot Competition Brief Overview: Eager to study the discipline of law overseas? This subject will provide you with the opportunity to study abroad whilst gaining insight into legal skills taught within the scope of other legal traditions and cultures. There is a wide variety of subjects recommended to study overseas, such as interdisciplinary subjects, as well as theoretical and practical subjects within the discipline of law. This subject is the perfect opportunity to develop intercultural awareness, adaptability and resourcefulness - ultimately strengthening capacity to become future global professionals. By undertaking the short course within the discipline of law overseas, students are able to gain credit for this study through this subject.
Please note: 70616 Australian Constitutional Law is a prerequisite for this subject.
Brief Overview: Interested in mooting? The Jessup International Moot provides students with an opportunity to participate in the prestigious ‘Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition’. Students will partake in the world’s largest moot court competition, showcasing international law advocacy skills through simulated hypothetical disputes between countries before the International Court of Justice. A complex current issue of public international law will form the hypothetical case and students will conduct extensive legal research upon analysing and developing arguments in preparation for written and oral submissions. The competition commences in Canberra with the grand final being held in the High Court of Australia. The two grand finalist teams progress to represent their university in Washington D.C in April each year.
Please note: 70102 Foundations of Law is a prerequisite for this subject. This subject is by invitation only.
Brief Overview: Students have the opportunity to partake in the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot, which is held annually in Oxford, UK, over the course of three days. Students will analyse a problem relating to copyright, trade marks, patents, confidential information, passing off or any combination thereof, and are challenged to engage in comparative research of legal rules at regional, national and international levels.
There will be in-depth legal research on various national laws and the preparation of written and oral pleadings arguing both appellant and respondent positions of the case. A competitive selection process will take place where two or three students will be selected via invitation only. The grand final is held before senior members of the UK judiciary.
Offered: Autumn 2023
Assessment: A1 - Submission of Memorials for Price International Law Moot Competition (84%) A2 - International Oral Submissions Bonus (16%) Brief Overview: Passionate about advocacy? Are you interested in human rights and media law? Love legal research? Then you should consider applying for the highly competitive Price International Media Law Moot.
Held at the prestigious Oxford University, if selected and successful you and your team will have the chance to compete against the creme-de-la-creme of law students from across the world.
The moot focuses on freedom of expression issues and the role of the media and information, and communication technologies. Students will conduct detailed research and prepare both written and oral submissions to complex questions on media law and the impacts on freedom of speech, privacy and the regulation of media content.
This moot involves a comparative analysis of legal standards at the national, regional and international levels which involve research into constitutional frameworks and other national laws. Your skills will be assessed by an international panel of judges with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise.
Please note: 70102 Foundations of Law is a prerequisite for this subject. This subject is by invitation only.
