The Melbourne Law Masters
provides students with many global advantages.
One of them is simply the quality of the degree.
A masters from Melbourne
is well understood, not only in Australia,
but throughout the world.
It really excites you to be studying
in an atmosphere that challenges you.
It gives you an opportunity to learn
because it makes you fall in love with learning.
The masters is continually reconceived.
Every year we think very carefully
about what should be in the program in the following year
and what should be in each of the areas of specialisation
to ensure they maintain their cutting-edge relevance.
Just talking to people, they ask, "Where are you doing your masters?"
and I say Melbourne Uni
naturally they don't need to ask anything more.
They think, "You obviously know how to do your job."
It's a very diverse program.
Huge range of subjects and specialisations,
and a huge range of students and teachers for that matter.
Most of our courses are taught in fairly intimate
small numbers, so the possibility of
truly rich collaborative learning is always present.
Melbourne Law School has a number of research centres.
They're a very important part of the life of the law school
because of the focal point they represent
both in relation to research and also teaching.
Each of our areas of specialisation is headed by
an expert in the field.
We have a combination of leading academics,
leading researchers, leading practitioners.
You've got your top lawyers and partners from
firms all over Australia
who are really the best at what they do.
They in turn give students the opportunity
to network with their colleagues
and other students working in the area.
I've been able to meet people through class
who work in both private practice and in-house counsel.
I met a contact through the University
and I was invited to go to the International Criminal Court.
It really does open up future career opportunities
and also provides an avenue to
specialise in another area of law that I hadn't previously specialised in.
The student body is very diverse at Melbourne.
The ability to be in a class with 20 people,
and having a globalised conversation,
you start on one topic
and there you have somebody from Indonesia
giving their perspective.
Germany steps in, Spain steps in.
I think it's been absolutely brilliant because
in today's interdependent world
it's so important to have a holistic perspective.
Each year we have a remarkably large
number of international guests
to come here, teach a course
and very often involve themselves
in programs around the law school,
giving public lectures, by appearing in seminars,
and participating in conversations, either formal
public conversations or just conversations in the corridors.
So they really bring a lot to bear
on the life of the faculty each year.
They bring to the law school knowledge about how their own legal systems work,
how their own countries work,
how legal issues are perceived in their own part of the world.
And that's a very important part of
of the body of knowledge that exists in this law school.
The world is your oyster after you have studied here.
The subjects are so international in nature.
You've been taught be professors who
pretty much are globe trotters themselves.
So wherever you go, you can touch base with them.
So I think it opens up your world literally.
There's not many places you can go to where
you're sitting in a classroom with a former judge,
or someone who is the leading partner
in the top law firm in Australia.
If you're going to put all that time and energy
into doing a masters you deserve
to have a degree that is well recognised
and guaranteed to be of a very high quality.
Melbourne Uni is such a prestigious school that
I think having a masters from Melbourne Uni
puts students ahead of many others.
Coming to a University like this and
taking the subjects that I have
has just changed my whole perspective.
It's changed my future.