Bachelor of Justice/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

Highlights

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles of law and the justice system.
• Complete two separate degrees in 5.5 years full-time.
• Benefit from meaningful connections with high profile industry employers and classes with leading and internationally renowned law and justice experts.
• Bachelor of Justice offers targeted career paths in law enforcement, military services, government, and private-sector intelligence and security agencies, crime prevention agencies, and criminal and social justice policy agencies.
• Practical and effective hands-on learning experiences during your studies
• Classes with leading and expert teachers
• International study and placement opportunities
• The high-quality law library, expert librarians and Law Moot Court facilities
• Convenient city-based campus

Why choose this course?

This course offers integration between two important and popular areas of study. It will allow you to gain perspective on criminal justice, policy, governance, and legal issues, and their impact on society. You'll gain in-depth knowledge of laws and their impact from a justice perspective. You'll gain an advanced understanding of the law and legal system, and graduate with broad career options in both the legal and criminal justice systems. Tailor your degree to your interests by choosing a major in either criminology and policing or policy and governance in your justice degree.

Our Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor's degree, as it has honours-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career, or future research and study.

Our 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. The new law, technology, and innovation minor which is part of the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) cover topics on how the law is responding to new developments in artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, and autonomous vehicles.

Real-world learning

You'll study a combination of justice and law units in the first four years, with the balance of units devoted to law units and electives. In the law component, you'll have the opportunity to choose a number of introductory, general, and advanced elective units.

Injustice, you can select your major in either 'criminology and policing' or 'policy and governance'. There's also an option to undertake elective units in forensic science, Indigenous Knowledge, management, or another university-wide minor.

There are opportunities to undertake a work placement unit in your justice degree, where you can work with a community or government organization for credit toward your degree.  Our Legal Clinic unit also offers credit towards your degree – it places law students with community legal organizations to undertake a semester-long project. They’re great options to refine your interests and enhance your resume.