Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry

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. This degree instils in students a desire for just outcomes, a broad outlook on law and a commitment to ethical conduct and equips students to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial mindset to respond to 21st century opportunities.

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.

City Campus

Flinders City Campus offers a broad range of study areas and is designed for collaborative learning, interactive teaching and industry engagement. Positioned adjacent to the Adelaide Railway Station on North Terrace and central to trams and buses, the City Campus provides students with greater connection, convenience and accessibility.

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.

Your career

On completion of this degree 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.

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.

Combine your degree

Expand your career options by combining this degree with the following:

• Bachelor of Accounting (SATAC code 284531)

• Bachelor of Business (SATAC code 284541)

• Bachelor of Criminology (SATAC code 284571)

• Bachelor of Information Technology (SATAC code 284771)

• Bachelor of International Relations and Political Science (SATAC code 284581)

• Bachelor of Psychological Science (SATAC code 285001)

Combining degrees enables students to follow their interests and aspirations and enhance their career prospects by undertaking a second area of study in addition to their primary degree. Completing an approved combined degree option will normally add at least one extra year (full-time equivalent) to their studies. For example, students combining two three-year full-time equivalent degrees are normally able to complete both degrees in four years of full-time equivalent study. Students graduate with two degrees, expanding employment opportunities. For further information visit Combined Degrees.