Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry/Bachelor of Arts combined degrees

This combined degree allows students to complete qualifications in Laws - Legal Practice Entry, and a Bachelor of Arts with a combined study plan to reduce the overall duration of the degree. The Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry aims to provide students with a sound training in law and legal skills and emphasise the acquisition on foundation legal skills through the integration of skills training with the teaching of substantive subjects. The Bachelor of Arts enables you to build your knowledge base in the areas you're passionate about, develop the complex critical thinking and problem solving skills required to solve some of the world's greatest challenges, and learn transferable skills that are highly valued in the workplace.

Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry

Flinders Law students will be able to demonstrate an extensive and well-founded knowledge of key areas of current Australian law, including new and developing areas with the ability to find, interpret, understand and critique Australian law within its historical and comparative contexts, using effective learning strategies and appropriate methods, including both recent and traditional technologies.

Students will have the ability to use their knowledge to plan, analyse and think critically, logically and creatively, including by reflecting upon and evaluating facts, ideas, options and resolutions to disputes and debates, and considering client instructions and the requirements of procedural and jurisdictional contexts and an awareness of the philosophy and the social and global contexts of law, and willingness to uphold their community responsibility to advocate for justice and to act with integrity in all matters in their professional work and personal lives.

Practical Experience in Law

Flinders Law prepares you to become a lawyer and a leader - receive more support, more placements, and more advanced skills. Students will gain cutting-edge practical experience and build networks with industry years before they graduate. Students participate in Work Integrated Learning as part of this degree. Students will be required to undertake a semester-long placement for one day a week in either the Flinders Legal Centre, Digital Law Lab or with an industry partner.

Successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry provides direct entry to the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, delivered in collaboration with Leo Cussen in the Adelaide CBD. Successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice satisfies the academic and practical requirements underpinning eligibility to be admitted as a barrister and solicitor in any state or territory of Australia

Bachelor of Arts

With 24 majors to choose from, the Bachelor of Arts is your ticket to a career you're passionate about. Tailor your degree to align with your career aspirations and choose how you study with options in person and online.

Students will benefit from a personalised learning experience and small class sizes, learning from world-leading educators along the way. Students will also become part of the Flinders community across the Arts, with some of the best major disciplines in the state. With a distinct emphasis on careers and skills development, students will develop the complex critical thinking and problem solving skills employers desire.

On completion of this degree students will be able to synthesise knowledge across two or more areas of Arts-based study and adapt knowledge and skills acquired across geographical, disciplinary, social, and cultural boundaries. Students will value working both independently and collaboratively and be able to apply employability skills to career pathways across multiple sectors.

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Successful applicants to this degree are also issued a conditional offer to the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, subject to meeting progression requirements. Students who would like to become eligible to apply to the Supreme Court for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia must also complete the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice upon completion of their Bachelor degree.

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is a postgraduate award, and is one year in length of full-time study, or the equivalent part-time. Graduates will have the knowledge and skills to apply theoretical understanding of the law to practical situations, and practice as a legal practitioner.

Students who do not want to complete the Legal Practice component can complete the Bachelor degree without obligation to continue to the Graduate Diploma.