Master of International Law and Diplomacy

The Master of International Law and Diplomacy is your pathway to professional advancement, equipping you with specialised knowledge and skills to effectively represent your country or organisation at an international level.

This highly valuable qualification deepens your understanding of the way diplomacy and law operate in, and interact with, the modern world. It equips you with legal and diplomatic skills and knowledge for the 21st century job market. The degree also provides exciting study and career options in the prestigious arenas of diplomatic and international legal practice.

You will be taught by internationally recognised research scholars from the ANU College of Law and the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, as well as senior diplomatic and international legal practitioners from Australia and elsewhere. You will graduate from a world-class university, positioning you firmly in the centre of a global network of leading diplomatic and international legal scholars and policy-makers.

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Welcome to the Master of International Law and Diplomacy. This section for new students will help you to choose which courses you should enrol in for your first semester as well as general information to assist you throughout your degree.

• 24 units Compulsory courses from both Law and Diplomacy
• 72 units from the Diplomacy and Law courses approved for the program. Consisting of:
  
• min 24 units from the completion of elective diplomatic studies courses
  
• min 24 units from the completion of elective international law courses
  
• max 12 units from the completion of the following research courses
  
• LAWS8301 Graduate Research Unit
  
• DIPL8018 Diplomacy Research Project
  
• max 6 units from the completion of experiential courses.
  

The program can be completed full time in 2 years or taken part time over a longer period. (Note: International students must study a full time load)

After you have accepted your offer online you will be emailed your password and Student ID. Please follow all the instructions in the matriculation email you receive to activate your Interactive Student Information System (ISIS) account. You must then follow the instructions provided here and enrol online in your courses through ISIS. Enrolment is managed through ISIS while the online learning platform is known as Wattle. These two websites will be some of the most common sites used throughout your degree. It is a good idea to familiarise yourself with them as soon as possible.