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Bachelor of Laws
Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
About this program
Bond's Faculty of Law caps annual admission at around 180 students specifically to keep classes small, and the Bachelor of Laws uses that scale to run a genuinely accelerated model: eight semesters across Bond's three-trimester calendar, finishing in two years and eight months rather than the three or four years an LLB takes at a standard two-semester university. Students complete 170 credit points across 32 subjects: 17 compulsory law subjects, seven law electives, three university core subjects and five general electives.
The teaching emphasis sits on practice as much as doctrine: legal research and reasoning, legal writing and drafting, oral advocacy, negotiation and dispute resolution, and legal ethics are built into the compulsory sequence rather than left to a single skills subject. Because trimesters run back-to-back with short breaks, students moving straight through need to plan around a genuinely continuous academic year, which suits those wanting to qualify and move into practice or further study as quickly as possible.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 6 parts
- Compulsory law subjects (17): Contracts
- Torts
- Criminal Law
- Constitutional Law
- Property Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Administrative Law
- Corporations Law
- Evidence
- Civil Procedure
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- and others across the sequence
- Law electives (7 subjects): drawn from areas such as intellectual property
- international law
- family law
- competition law and litigation practice
- University core subjects (3): communication
- thinking and analysis subjects taken by all Bond undergraduates
- General electives (5): open to any faculty
- used to add breadth or a minor
- legal research and writing
- oral advocacy
- negotiation and dispute resolution embedded across compulsory subjects
- 170credit points / 32 subjects across 8 trimesters (2 years 8 months full-time)
Career & PR pathway
Occupations this degree typically leads to, and their skilled-migration list status
SolicitorANZSCO 271311
On both MLTSSL and CSOL, but a positive skills assessment is not the same as being able to practise. You must first be admitted to an Australian state legal profession, which for an overseas or JD graduate means passing the assessed academic subjects, completing Practical Legal Training, and being admitted by the state Supreme Court, before the occupation is realistically usable for a visa.
Assessed by VETASSESS
BarristerANZSCO 271111
On both MLTSSL and CSOL, supporting the points-tested 189, 190, and 491 as well as the employer-sponsored 482 and 186. As with Solicitor, a positive skills assessment is not the same as being able to practise: you must be admitted to the bar in an Australian state or territory before the occupation is realistically usable for a visa. Assessed by the state or territory Legal Admissions Authority, not VETASSESS.
Assessed by State or Territory Legal Admissions Authority
List membership changes over time and does not guarantee an invitation. See the skilled occupation lists guide and the points calculator before relying on this for a visa decision.
Admissions
Completion of Australian Year 12 (or equivalent) with a strong academic record; Bond applies its own admission score rather than a standard ATAR gate.
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