MLL419 - Contemporary International Legal Challenges (Intensive)

2020 unit information

Trimester 2: Cloud*
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne)

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.

*Trimester 2 Cloud details:

30 Cloud contact hours over 6 days. The first two days have a 1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 2 hour seminar. The remaining days have 2 x 1-hour lectures and 2 x 2-hour seminars.

Cloud Intensive dates:  

• 20 July 2020 2pm to 5pm  
• 21 July 2020 2pm to 5pm  
• 3 August 2020 10 am to 5pm  
• 4 August 2020 10am to 5pm  
• 24 August 2020 10 am to 5pm  
• 25 August 2020 10am to 5pm  

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. 

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

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 Trimester 2 2020 Cloud Intensive offering of MLL419.