Honours program
Law On-course Honours Award recognises outstanding achievement in the Bachelor of Laws degree. Basically On-course Honours means it is embedded in the course, it is not a separate course such as the M400 Commerce Honours.
Please note: no rounding up is done for Honours calculations eg 64.686 will not be rounded up to 65.
Honours Program One is only available to students who commenced pre 2002. This structure involves completing MLL401 Legal Project in addition to the 24 LLB units. (This is a Research-based Honours Award).
Honours Program Two is available to students who commenced in 2002. This structure can also be adopted by students who commenced prior to 2002. Under this structure students may or may not choose to complete MLL401 Legal Project.
Honours Program Three is available to students who commenced in 2003 onwards. This structure can also be adopted by students who commenced prior to 2003. Under this structure students may NOT complete MLL401 Legal Project.
Note: MLL401 Legal Project is a 2 credit point unit, which requires the student to write a 10000 word thesis, under academic supervision. MLL401 Legal Project is a pipelining unit and is only available to LLB students who commenced their Law course before 2003, which is when the third Honours structure was introduced.
How to work out your Law Honours grade point average
If you require additional information about the Law Honours structure, please contact a Student Advisor.
- Attendance at the research skills seminar in mid-December annually. There will only be one seminar conducted for all Trimesters of enrolment (attendance is optional but highly recommended).
- Completion of a 10000 word research paper on an approved topic.
Supervisor
The School's Executive Committee will allocate a supervisor for each successful applicant if the applicant has not already approached a Law lecturer prior to application. Candidates are urged to make contact with their supervisor as soon as possible to finalise the topic of their research paper. The onus of making this contact rests upon the candidate.
Enrolment
Candidates must enrol in the research unit (MLL401 Legal Project) in the approved trimester as indicated in their application form. Students who are not given their first trimester of preference will be notified accordingly.
Due date and submission
The research paper submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of this unit must then be completed by the beginning of the examination period in that trimester and submitted to the supervisor for marking. Research papers are marked by a member of staff, or external examiner, and a grade entered by the Unit Chair of Legal Project, within the time allowed for returning results in that trimester.
The examination periods are usually scheduled as follows:
- Trimester 1 – mid June
- Trimester 2 – mid October
- Trimester 3 – mid February
Extensions
Under no circumstances will the date for submitting a research paper be extended unless the School's Executive Committee or Unit Chair gives approval.
Unit co-ordination
In 2011 the Unit Chair of Legal Project is John Morss. Should a candidate have any questions of a general nature about this unit they should be directed to the Unit Chair by phoning +61 3 9244 6236. Questions about your thesis should be directed to your supervisor.
