Osgoode Hall is one of the oldest and most prestigious law schools in North America. Building on a staff exchange scheme with its origins in the 1980s, the two law schools are reviving collaborative activities, including a student exchange scheme, jointly offered short courses to professionals and collaborative research. Monash Law now has exchange schemes with universities in many countries. One such program is the new international clinical exchange scheme between the clinical legal education programs at Monash and Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Two Monash Law students worked over the summer in the St Louis County criminal courts where they were engaged in case preparation alongside Washington University students.
Plans are also under way to establish international placement schemes with overseas organisations.
The first such scheme began in 2000 with a placement at The World Bank in Washington, assisted by a grant from the NAB Banking Law Centre in the Faculty. Monash Law is already a receiving law school for American Study Abroad students. In the Summer of 2000, Monash Law and the Thomas Cooley Law School, Michigan offered a program in Melbourne for more than 15 US law students drawn from several American universities. Monash staff taught three of the four subject areas over the 7 week program - International Law, International Human Rights and International Air Law. The program was approved by the American Bar Association, making its Monash-based subjects automatically eligible for credit towards US law degrees.