Designed and taught by practising lawyers and academics, Deakin’s accredited Bachelor of Laws integrates sound legal training with real-world experience, developing key skills in problem-solving, analytical thinking and ethical reasoning.

Are you looking for a degree that prepares you for a leading legal or professional career?

Deakin's Bachelor of Laws attracts some of the brightest and best students in Australia and our graduates enjoy high employment rates in dynamic roles across law, business, journalism, public administration, private enterprise and politics.

A distinctive feature of Deakin’s law degree is the focus on experiential learning. The legal profession is highly commercialised and lawyers are increasingly required to provide clients with practical, commercial and governance advice, in addition to legal expertise. As credit towards your degree, you will undertake work-integrated learning placements. You may be placed at law firms, legal aid providers and government offices that deliver the legal skills and experience that employers are looking for in the competitive job market.

Throughout your degree, you’ll develop practical legal skills, including:

• negotiation
• mediation
• preparing for court appearances
• legal drafting
• statutory interpretation.

You’ll also develop transferable skills that will launch you on a variety of career paths. That could mean entering the business sector in almost any industry or government service in areas such as law reform, politics or public administration.

Law at Deakin offers you the opportunity to jump aboard our international programs and placements and take your study overseas for a few weeks, a trimester, or even a year. Our global study itinerary includes the Chinese Commercial Law Study Tour, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Tour to the United States, the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Hong Kong and Vienna, and options to study one or more elective units (such as international human rights law) at an overseas institution.

Obtaining a law degree is your first step to entering the legal profession. Upon completion of your degree and the additional practical legal training, you’ll be qualified to work as a solicitor or barrister in all legal fields, including:

• commercial law
• criminal law
• family law
• public international and human rights law
• refugee law
• personal injury law

In addition, your degree opens numerous other career opportunities. As an alternative to practising as a barrister or solicitor, you may choose to enter:

• business as a corporate lawyer, consultant, company administrator or business manager
• government as a lawyer or policy adviser with departments or authorities as diverse as the Attorney General's Department, the office of Parliamentary Counsel, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• industrial relations
• public administration
• education
• media
• politics
• law reform