Laws University of Canberra

Overview

With small class sizes, a purpose-built eMoot Court and highly qualified and experienced staff, you’ll be encouraged to develop your advocacy abilities and legal skills while understanding their connection to legal history and law in context.

You can tailor your individual study program by selecting a variety of electives across many areas of law, and even choose to accelerate your studies with winter term subjects.  

The Laws course from the University of Canberra will ground your education in the latest legal innovations, develop your communication and interpersonal skills and allow you to become an agile, ethical and effective legal professional.

Study Laws at University of Canberra and you will:

Undertake in-depth study of key areas of law that give you the required academic knowledge for admission to Australian legal practice

Choose from an array of specialist electives that include environmental law, government law, gender, commercial law, technology, legal innovation and more

Participate in a program of study with a proven track record of excellence in graduate employment outcomes and work-integrated learning

Have the option of completing Honours in your final year of study. This allows you to graduate with a deeper understanding of the various technical and theoretical aspects of the law and can help prepare you for a variety of roles within and outside the justice sector

Work Integrated Learning

The course encourages you to apply your talents in the real world, with opportunities to complete a law internship and international study through links with law firms, governments, non-governmental agencies and overseas universities.

You will have the opportunity to choose one law elective which includes a practical Work Integrated Learning (WIL) based component. Past student internship examples have included:

• Small, medium and large law firms

• Community legal centres

• Government departments (both ACT and federal)

• Courts

• Community organisations such as Victim Support ACT

• Overseas placements in the US at The Carter Center and the Office of the State Public Defender (California).

Career opportunities

• Solicitor

• Barrister

• Associate

• Judge

• Judge’s associate

• Magistrate

• Registrar

• Policy adviser

• Legal researcher

• Community lawyer

• Justice policy officer

• Parliamentary counsel

• Legislative drafter

• Law reform officer