Bachelor of Laws

Studying law at CDU means studying it in a jurisdiction most Australian law schools barely touch: the Northern Territory has its own quirks in areas like Indigenous land rights, mining and resources law, and criminal sentencing that don't come up the same way in a Sydney or Melbourne law degree. Students get exposure to that Territory-specific context alongside the standard Priestley 11 subjects the profession requires everywhere in Australia.

The LLB runs 240 credit points across three years full-time, with a maximum of 100 credit points able to come from first-year (100-level) units and at least 60 credit points required at 300-level or above, a structure meant to stop students front-loading easy units and coasting. Most of the core sequence (contracts, torts, criminal law, property, equity, evidence, civil procedure) is prescribed by the legal profession's admission requirements, so there's not much room to swap those out; the flexibility shows up in the specialist electives, where students can lean toward family law, international law, or competition and consumer law depending on where they want to end up.

CDU offers full online delivery for the whole degree, which is unusual for a law program and reflects the practical reality that a lot of NT residents live hours from Darwin. Graduates wanting Honours can roll straight into the one-year Bachelor of Laws Honours add-on rather than restarting a separate degree.