Graduate Diploma in Law

Program overview

The Graduate Diploma in Law by coursework offers law graduates the opportunity of advanced graduate study in law either generally or within specialised areas without undertaking a full Master of Laws degree.

There is no difference between the Grad Dip Law and the LLM by coursework in terms of the content and depth with which particular courses are studied - the Grad Dip Law merely requires completion of fewer courses. Courses combine a degree of sophistication or technical difficulty in terms of legal content with a substantial consideration of relevant interdisciplinary aspects of the course matter and a focus on policy.

Program structure

Students must complete four single session (6 unit of credit) courses or the equivalent to a total value of 36 units of credit. Students may elect to complete a major sequence of courses in a specialist area (see below).International students must enrol in a full-time load each semester that is 18 units of credit.

International students are required to enrol in the course Australian Legal System in their first semester. Some students may be exempt from this course because of their academic and professional background.

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