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Large law firms are practising law in a competitive global environment. ‘Global lawyers’ must have a sound understanding of a variety of legal traditions and legal systems beyond Australia. The course is designed to enhance student ability to evaluate - with confidence - complex legal issues and to provide solutions based on a wide range of perspectives and different approaches to law.

Students who usefully complete the course will have a distinctive advantage in the global market of legal practitioners. Comparative law increases the knowledge, in theory and in practice, of a spectrum of legal systems such as US common law and the south Asian legal traditions. As such, the emphasis of the course is on understanding `why and how' different legal traditions execute the same basic functions required from a legal system such as regulating a market economy, solving international disputes, and protecting rights. In addition, comparative law broadens students understanding the choices made in their own legal system.