The University believes that students benefit from courses with a unique global perspective, and may choose to complete part of their degrees overseas in one of 26 countries. The Monash Law Faculty is a large faculty, with a student population of over 2000 undergraduates and graduates and an academic staff of 60. The Faculty emphasises the diversity and depth of the undergraduate curriculum. Courses consists of compulsory subjects, plus a number of elective offerings. Students are supported by the specialist law library with its modern facilities and by the culture and environment maintained in the Law Faculty.
Graduates are to be found in many roles, in a number of professions.
Alumni include eminent members of the government, judiciary and the corporate sector. A strong commitment to teaching is part of the ethos of the Faculty. The Faculty was the first law faculty in Australia to introduce Clinical Law Programs and this remains a distinctive part of legal education provided at Monash, with final year students having the opportunity to spend a semester working at Monash Oakleigh or Springvale Legal Service under the supervision of staff members. Research extends across the whole range of the discipline of law, with special strength in commercial law, criminal law and its administration, constitutional and administrative law and intellectual law. Staff are actively involved in external activities through their work on government committees and professional bodies, tribunals and government agencies, or in law reform activities.