Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

Highlights

• a course designed in consultation with industry to have a strong foundation in contemporary law knowledge, understanding, and experience
• meaningful connections with high profile industry employers
• practical and effective hands-on learning experiences during your studies
• the option to tailor your degree to your interests with a wide range of law electives and a minor in law, technology, and innovation
• classes with leading and expert teachers
• international study and placement opportunities
• the high quality law library, expert librarians and Law Moot Court facilities
• the convenience of a city-based campus

Why choose this course?

The QUT law degree will provide you with the knowledge and confidence you need to apply the law in an array of legal careers. Through your study, you will understand key areas of law and develop advanced knowledge in areas that interest you. Your study will also develop necessary legal skills such as legal research, problem-solving, dispute resolution, and oral and written communication. Our course will also help you understand and promote the ethical standards of the legal profession and to appreciate international and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.

QUT’s contemporary law degree prepares you to think ahead and allows you to take advantage of employment opportunities in growth areas or newly emerging sectors, such as intellectual property and technology.

New Law, Technology and Innovation Minor

Our minor in law, technology and innovation cover topics including how the law is responding to new developments in artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, and autonomous vehicles. The minor complements the core law program and prepares our graduates to be adaptable legal professionals who are skilled for new careers which will evolve as a result of innovation and technology disruption.

Real-world learning

As you progress through your degree you will complete a number of compulsory units including contracts, torts, real property law, evidence, constitutional law, equity and trusts, criminal law and corporate law. You will also choose from a range of introductory, general and advanced elective units that match your career interests such as:

• intellectual property, technology, and innovation law
• international law, human rights, and immigration law
•  international private law and commercial arbitration
• comparative law such as the Chinese legal system
• commercial law including taxation, banking and finance, and environmental and planning law
• private law including family law and criminal law.

Your advanced studies will conclude with a legal research capstone unit that includes a virtual internship with a top-tier firm. Through the virtual internship, you will have the opportunity to undertake authentic legal tasks and to engage with experienced lawyers. In 2019 students are undertaking the internship with MinterEllison. As part of the course, you may study up to four non-law electives to align with your planned career. It is possible that the four non-law electives can be studied as a minor.