UndergraduateLaw
Bachelor of Laws
Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia
About this program
The distinguishing feature of Murdoch's law degree is SCALES, its award-winning student law clinic: students earn academic credit working actual client matters in areas like human rights law, family law and community legal issues, under supervision, rather than working through hypothetical case studies for the whole degree. That's a genuine point of difference from law schools where "clinical experience" is a mooting exercise dressed up in different language.
The school also foregrounds a social-justice orientation more explicitly than many Australian law programs: human rights and access-to-justice framing shows up across the marketing and, by the school's account, in elective offerings, which shapes who tends to be drawn to Murdoch Law over a more corporate-commercial-focused program. Mooting runs through a purpose-built courtroom facility and is positioned as building advocacy and courtroom presence alongside the clinic work rather than replacing it.
Beyond the clinic, Murdoch's Work Integrated Learning internship program places law students with law firms, government agencies and not-for-profits, which is a fairly standard offering across Australian law schools but is run here with the same WIL infrastructure Murdoch uses for its business and other professional degrees.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 4 parts
- Year 1: introduction to law and legal system
- legal research and writing
- contracts
- torts
- Year 2: property law
- criminal law
- constitutional law
- equity
- SCALES law clinic (credit-bearing clinical placement) or mooting unit
- Year 3: evidence
- administrative law
- dispute resolution
- WIL internship (law firms, government, not-for-profit)
- advanced electives (e.g. human rights law, family law)
- Total: 3 years full-time (as a single degree) or extended when combined with another Murdoch degree
- SCALES clinical placement credit-bearing and available to eligible students
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
Domestic admission is by ATAR (minimum 90) or an equivalent Minimum Selection Rank of 90 in WA/ACT/NSW/NT/SA/TAS/VIC, with a scaled mark of 50 or higher in English ATAR, Literature ATAR or English as an Additional Dialect (EALD) ATAR, or a STAT Written English score of 140 or higher. Alternative pathways include Murdoch's own enabling programs, an enabling or bridging program at another Australian university, at least 2 years of TAFE or RTO study, GCE A Levels, the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or completion of 2 units at an Australian university or Open Universities Australia. International applicants are assessed against Murdoch's country specific secondary and tertiary qualification equivalencies.
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