ProviderCurtin UniversityThe Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Innovation double degree course provides students with an approved academic qualification for entry into legal practice, and the knowledge, skills, and GRIT (global, responsive, innovative, technology-savvy) mindset needed to be an innovator. The course will be particularly useful for students interested in innovation and who want to gain an understanding of the surrounding legal framework. This course prepares graduates for careers in both law and business innovation.
The Bachelor of Laws degree is a qualification approved by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. It will equip you with legal knowledge and core skills that are essential to effective legal practice. It will also give you a strong awareness of commercial law and opportunities to connect with industry.
At Curtin University, working practitioners bring degree programs to life. You'll be motivated by the real-life stories and industry exposure. In the Law school, high-quality teaching staff aim to give you first-hand insight and knowledge of the legal profession.
Are you inspired by innovation? If you want the skills to be an innovator or to help solve the big challenges, from local to global, the Bachelor of Innovation is for you. You will gain the expertise and the creative mindset to solve complex industry and societal challenges, to make a difference.
The course has been designed by researchers at Curtin Business School to support the development of next-generation innovators. The course integrates our ‘GRIT’ concepts – global, responsible, innovative, technology – and the skills that the World Economic Forum has identified as ‘non-negotiable’ for the 21st century.
During your studies you will learn innovation strategies and how to innovate ethically, engage globally, and use technology decisively to deliver solutions with positive social and industry impacts.
Practical Experience / Workbased Learning:
Curtin’s Bachelor of Laws offers a rich and professionally relevant coverage of foundational areas of legal knowledge as well as developing the core skills essential to effective legal practice. It will give you an accredited legal qualification, the first step to admission to practise as a lawyer, including the giving of legal advice and appearing in court. It will also give you a strong commercial awareness and the opportunity to focus on industry.
Professional Recognition:
An undergraduate degree in law is the first qualification you need if you want to practise as a lawyer in Australia. Further practical legal training must be undertaken after completing the Bachelor of Laws to be eligible for admission as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia.
To be eligible for admission as a lawyer in Western Australia you must either undertake the Practical Legal Training course or complete 12 months articles of clerkship. For further details about admission as a lawyer in Australia refer to the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia website.
Curtin Business School is accredited by Association to Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), EQUIS, the leading international system for quality of Business Schools, UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), and holds 4 Palmes of Excellence rating from the Eduniversal Business School Rankings
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General Admission Criteria do not apply to this course.
This course has course specific criteria, see information for this course on TISC's website .
Applicants with work and life experienceSTAT is accepted for entry.
Elements considered: Written English and either Verbal or Quantitative.
If the student's current English result is below the direct-entry requirement, consider the university's recognised English language pathway or ELICOS package. When the student successfully completes the approved pathway at the required level, the university may accept that pathway for English entry without requiring a new IELTS, TOEFL or PTE result. Always confirm exclusions for professional registration courses and the offer conditions.
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