Graduate · Law
Juris Doctor
University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
About this program
UC's Juris Doctor is a graduate-entry law degree for people who already hold a bachelor's degree in a non-law field, delivered fully online across 24 units, each run in a seven-week block rather than a traditional semester. With six intakes a year, students can start almost whenever life allows rather than waiting for a February or July opening.
To graduate, students must complete the foundation units, all Priestley 11 units (the national core required for admission to legal practice in Australia), the program's additional core units, and at least one of three Research and Internship Stream units, filling out the rest with electives.
Those electives lean toward technology, innovation and dispute resolution, which fits UC's broader positioning as a public-policy and government-adjacent university; several electives sit at the intersection of law and public administration, useful for JD students already working in or heading toward Commonwealth legal or policy roles based in Canberra.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
5 terms of coursework
- Foundation units: Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
- Legal Research and Writing
- Priestley 11 core units: Contracts
- Torts
- Criminal Law
- Property Law
- Equity
- Company Law
- Administrative Law
- Federal and State Constitutional Law
- Civil and Criminal Procedure
- Evidence
- Professional Conduct (Ethics)
- Additional core units: Public International Law
- Legal Theory
- Research and Internship Stream (complete at least 1): Legal Internship
- Directed Research Project
- Law Reform Project
- Electives (remaining units to reach 24 total): drawn from technology and law, alternative dispute resolution, and public-sector/government law offerings
Admissions
A bachelor degree in any discipline (or equivalent); this is a graduate-entry law qualification.