Study a Master of Laws at Australia’s national law school at Australia’s top-ranked University. This highly valuable qualification deepens your understanding of the way law operates in, and interacts with, the modern world and equips you with skills and knowledge for the 21st century job market.

Pursue a general LLM for a broad perspective of law’s role in domestic and international societies.  Or focus your studies on one of three specialisations – Public Law, International Law or Private & Commercial Law.

Open to law and non-law graduates, the LLM offers you the flexibility to complete your studies in a way that suits you. Courses are delivered in a variety of modes – semester length, online or in a shorter ‘intensive’ format.

Upon completion, you will join a prestigious and highly recognised alumni network of over 19,000 professionals in Australia and around the globe

Graduates from ANU have been rated as Australia's most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide.

The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia's top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row.

Learning Outcomes

1. develop and apply specialist knowledge within the areas of law studied.
2. evaluate case law, legislation and scholarly writings on the specialist areas of law studied.
3. synthesise legal materials into a concise and cohesive argument that addresses a legal question.
4. incorporate social, comparative or interdisciplinary approaches into legal analysis.
5. undertake legal research and present findings using a variety of materials and sources.
6. engage in original and critical reflection on the law.
7. contribute to debates on theoretical, policy and practical issues in the areas of law studied.