Program Overview

If you’ve aspired to a career in legal practice, then UC's Bachelor of Laws will help get you there in no time. Our highly practical approach is a marked strength, and continues to set our law degree apart from the rest.

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 course 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 a Bachelor of Laws at UC 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).

You’ll also have access to WIL opportunities at the University’s Legal Advice Clinic for Small Business, where students assist legal professionals in providing free legal and financial services to small businesses, local residents and students.

Major: Law Foundation
The Major in Law Foundation focuses on preparing students with the skills, orientation and ethical awareness needed to work as successful legal professionals throughout their future careers. This Major introduces students to their law studies, develops skills in dispute management and resolution, and incorporates areas of knowledge required for the professional accreditation of the LLB. It fosters a value for constitutionalism and the law as a theoretical, professional and practical discipline. This Major is focused on the development of law professionals equipped for the future of work in a range of roles and contexts.