MLL419 - Contemporary International Legal Challenges (Intensive)

2020 unit information

For Bachelor of Laws (including combined Law awards) students only

Must have completed 8 law units

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

30 face-to-face contact hours over 5 days, with each day having 2 x 1-hour lectures and 2 x 2-hour seminars.

Burwood Intensive 06 dates: 19^th - 24^th July 2020

Topic: Modern Slavery with a focus on Corporate Slavery in Supply Chains and Human Trafficking in organised crime.

Students will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Understand the history and development of international law in relation to slavery and human trafficking
• Assess the effectiveness of domestic responses with particular reference to the Modern Slavery Act in Australia, the UK and ASEAN
• Consider practical Corporate challenges in identifying slavery in supply chains.
• Analyse policy and legislative change in relation to human trafficking in organised crime.

Trimester 3 Intensive Dates: 18^th-22^nd January 2021

Topic: International Terrorism with a focus on Legal frameworks and criminal justice responses.

Students will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Assess the important role which respect for the Rule of Law and fundamental human rights play in effective counter-terrorism
• Understand definitions, extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction and domestic legal frameworks.
• Consider victim rights, to include human trafficking and compulsion of foreign fighters.
• Analyse fair trial rights for accused persons, to include evidence of radicalisation and sentencing.

 If you are not able to enrol, please email buslaw@deakin.edu.au

Recommended: Students who completed the Modern Slavery topic in MLL418 Contemporary Legal Issues in Residential 3, July 2019 are advised not to enrol in the Burwood Intensive 06 (July 2020) offering of MLL419.