Bachelor of Laws (505QD)

The final intake of students into the Bachelor of Laws program took place in 2007. From 2008 no further intake of first year students into this degree program will occur. Students interested in undertaking a degree in Law may apply for Melbourne University's Juris Doctor. Further details are available on the Melbourne JD website at: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/jd

The Melbourne LLB is innovative, forward looking and responsive to the changing needs of legal practice and scholarship. A feature of the law course at Melbourne is the seminar format of teaching in first-year subjects. Students are taught in small groups, which allows the maximum degree of student-teacher and student-student interaction. Significant perspectives on law (cross-cutting influences) are developed in a coordinated way throughout the curriculum. The cross-cutting influences particularly pertinent to the Melbourne LLB include: legal theory, ethics, comparative approaches to law, regulation, legal history, indigenous culture, law and policy, inter-cultural approaches, theoretical perspectives on law, cross jurisdictional law and practice, law reform and policy, and interdisciplinary influences on the law.

The Melbourne LLB also has a range of optional subjects which has been designed to enable students to acquire knowledge in a range of different areas of law to deepen their understanding of particular areas of law. These optional subjects are grouped into the following broad areas: Asian Law; Corporate and Commercial Law; Criminal Law and Justice; Dispute Resolution; Family Law; Indigenous issues in the Law; Intellectual Property; Media and Information Technology Law; International and Comparative Law; Labour Law; Legal Theory; Taxation Law.