Bachelor of Laws

If you’d like a dynamic and fulfilling job in law, learn from the best at VU. Our lecturers and adjunct professors include some of Australia’s most reputable legal professionals, sharing their many years of experience and knowledge. Through this law degree you’ll get a broad perspective on legal practice and gain specialist academic and professional skills including: Interviewing and advocacy ethical judgement; communication; legal research; and writing relevant legal professional computing skills. Thanks to our partnerships with the courts and community legal services, you’ll also gain practical, real-world experience of the justice system. Our new embedded law unit ‘Internships and Law Practice’ together with its 150 hours of legal placement which can be undertaken from 2nd year onwards, will facilitate experiential learning that nurtures your confidence and belief, builds creative leadership and empowers you on graduation to positively develop your professional communities.