What will I learn?

Curtins Bachelor of Laws offers a rich and professionally relevant foundation in legal knowledge. Youll learn core skills essential to effective legal practice and build a strong commercial awareness. From early on in your studies, youll start to recognise the importance of respecting the rule of law along with the responsibilities and ethics of legal practice.Youll also have the opportunity to choose from optional units that focus on topics such as forensic advocacy, employment law, family law, human rights law and native title law and policy, and law and technology. The range of optional units enables you to tailor your degree to suit your interests.Most of your course will be completed at Curtin Law School in the heart of Perth citys legal precinct. You can gain practical experience by undertaking simulated legal proceedings in our high-tech moot court, working on real cases at the John Curtin Law Clinic, and participating in our Legal Internships Program.Through the Legal Internships Program, you can experience working in a legal environment such as a court, law firm or community legal centre, with an organisations in-house legal team or with a barrister. These experiences will develop your practical legal skills and help you to identify which area of law you may like to practise. Curtin Law School has developed relationships with a range of organisations to offer legal internship placements to our students.

Which department am I in?

Faculty of Business and Law

CRICOS

077962B

Study options

Full Time (3 Years)

Tuition fees

A$54,804.67 (30,47,243) per year

On Campus Accommodation (Premium Single Room) - starting AUD 419 per week

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

February 2025

Venue

Bentley Campus

Kent Street,

BENTLEY,

Western Australia,

6102, PERTH, Australia

Entry requirements

For international students

Students from different countries should have qualifications equivalent to Australian Year 12 and a scaled mark of at least 50 in English, Literature, or English as an Additional Language or Dialect.

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) - Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking - 6.0; Overall band score 6.5; TOEFL Score: 79 (overall); Reading 13; Listening 13; Speaking 18; Writing 21; Pearson Test of English - Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking - 50; Overall band score 58; TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and PBT (Paper Based Test) - 570 and 4.5 in TWE; C1 Advanced Formerly known as Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) 176 with 169 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. C2 Proficiency Formerly known as Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) 190 with 176 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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