Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - Graduate Entry

If you’ve already completed an undergraduate degree in any discipline, you can apply for the Graduate Entry Law. This course allows you to complete our Bachelor of Laws in just three years, adding to your existing studies whilst beginning your career journey to becoming a lawyer.

As a graduate law student, you can develop a unique specialisation by working with the strengths of your first degree whether that’s in science, health, criminology, business, or arts. For example, you could choose to specialise in workplace law or personal injury litigation if you already have a health science degree, choose to focus on securities law, bankruptcy and liquidation and takeover law if you have a business degree or add to your criminology degree to become a criminal lawyer.

During your studies, you’ll benefit from the opportunities the School of Law & Criminology offers students by taking a hands-on approach to the law. You’ll also develop strong real-life legal skills through our clinical program with partners such as SCALES Community Legal Centre where you’ll work on real cases with clients and get a first-hand looking into the legal system. You may also further develop your reasoning skills in our internationally recognised mooting program.

3 reasons to study Law at Murdoch

1. Get work experience through our Work Integrated Learning program which allows you to intern at law firms, community legal centres and other organisations.

2. Earn credit towards your degree with hands-on legal training in our award-winning clinic working with real clients in areas such as human rights, family law and indigenous issues.

3. Accelerate your degree by studying flexibly across a range of different teaching periods including Summer and Winter terms.

What you’ll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals by studying core law units and specified law electives Here are some of the things you will learn:

• Criminal law and procedure
• Ethics and professional responsibility
• Property law
• Contract law and corporations law
• A broad range of specified electives including units in human rights, commercial law, cybercrime, legal clinic and international law.

Your future career

Studying law can lead to a career in any area or industry, from protecting and defending human rights to exploring emerging fields such as cybercrime.

You could work in the public or private sector, careers could include:

• Solicitor or Barrister
• Corporate governance/company secretary roles
• In house counsel for corporations, both private or listed corporations
• Lawyer in a community legal centre, or other not for profit organisations
• Parliamentary drafter
• Roles in federal, state or local government

You don’t have to become a lawyer. There are many other career paths you could pursue. You could become a business law consultant, work as a mediator, work in government or politics, become a writer or journalist or pursue many other opportunities.

For further admission information about this course, please visit Murdoch Admission Information - Law.

Professional accreditation

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - Graduate Entry is accredited by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA).

This course is also recognised by the Malaysia Bar Council.

Professional recognition

The Bachelor of Laws satisfies the University education requirements for the practice of law of the governing bodies of the legal profession of Western Australia. As is the pattern in the rest of Australia, before a candidate may be admitted to the practice of law in this State, certain additional requirements must be satisfied after completion of this formal university training. For more information, please refer to https://www.lpbwa.org.au/Becoming-A-Lawyer/Admissions-Requirements.

IELTS: Score: 6.5, with no band less than 6.0.

TOEFL: Score: 79+, with writing 21; speaking 18; reading 13; listening 13.

PEARSON: Score: 64+, with no communicative skill below 60.

CAMBRIDGE: Score: 176+, with no skill less than 169.