Monash University Faculty of Law
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1963 |
| Dean | Bryan Horrigan |
| Students | 3500 |
| Location | Clayton, Victoria, Australia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Monash University |
| Website | https://www.monash.edu/law |
Monash University Faculty of Law, or Monash Law School, is the law school of Monash University in Melbourne, Victoria.
Monash Law offers a wide variety of degrees, including the LLB as well at 9 double degree options in conjunction with the LLB, J.D., LLM, S.J.D., LLD and PhD degrees in law. It currently has approximately 3500 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as several hundred academic staff.
In 2014, the Faculty was ranked 16th in the world for Law by QS World University Rankings by Subject. Entry to the Bachelor of Laws is highly competitive, with an ATAR mark of approximately 98 required in 2015.
Currently, a number of senior judicial positions in Victoria - including Chief Justice of Victoria, Chief Judge of the County Court, Chief Magistrate of the Children's Court, and State Coroner - are occupied by Monash Law School graduates. The School's alumni are also prominent in business and government.
The Monash University Law Review, the School's flagship review, is one of the scholarly refereed law journals based at Monash Law School.
In the 1950s it had become clear that Melbourne's one law school would soon be unable to meet demand for legal education. This meant that although Monash was founded to focus primarily on science and technology, the university would inevitably contain a law school. The need was not considered pressing enough to make Law a foundation faculty of the new university; however, when the University of Melbourne imposed quotas on law school candidates due to a lack of resources, a new law school was immediately needed to cater for the extra students. The Victorian Council of Legal Education, the Chief Justice of Victoria and the Victorian Government pushed for the overnight establishment of a Monash law school, but this was resisted by the University's Vice-Chancellor, Sir Louis Matheson, who wanted a high quality, well-planned, original faculty of law. In the end, it was over a relatively short period of time - 5 months from October 1963 to March 1964 - that a first year law school curriculum was established and two teaching staff were appointed. However, when students first arrived in 1964, they did so with the knowledge that the curriculum for their later years was still being written. The University's law library was established with impressive speed, after substantial book donations from two former Supreme Court justices. Appropriately for a law school, the Faculty's establishment was delayed by a dispute over the interpretation of the Monash University Act, concerning when and how the University Council could set up new faculties. Debate between the University, the Crown Solicitor and the Parliamentary Draftsmen eventually resulted in an amendment to the Act.
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