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Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
About this program
QUT's law degree is a Queensland-facing professional qualification first and a general humanities degree second. The course is built to satisfy the academic requirements for admission as a lawyer in Queensland, which means the compulsory Priestley 11 subjects (contracts, torts, property, criminal law, evidence, equity, and the rest) anchor the structure regardless of which electives students choose around them. The Honours component is built into the four-year degree rather than bolted on, reflecting a fairly common structure among Queensland law schools.
QUT Business School and Law sit close to Brisbane's legal and government precinct, and the faculty runs clinical legal education options: supervised work on real client matters through a legal practice clinic, which is a more hands-on alternative to purely theoretical electives for students wanting practice experience before graduate positions. Moot court and advocacy training are also a visible part of the elective offering.
Most QUT law graduates go on to complete Practical Legal Training (PLT) before admission, since the LLB itself covers the academic but not the practical-skills admission requirement, a distinction worth knowing going in, since the degree alone doesn't make you an admitted lawyer.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 5 parts
- Year 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
- Contract Law A and B
- Torts Law
- foundational elective units
- Year 2: Property Law
- Criminal Law
- Administrative Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Year 3: Evidence
- Civil Procedure
- Company Law
- elective law units (commercial, criminal justice or public law strands)
- Year 4: Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- an Honours research or clinical legal education unit
- remaining electives
- capstone units
- Throughout: option to undertake clinical legal education working on real client matters
- moot court and advocacy electives available
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 Year 12, ATAR approx. 85-90
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