Graduate · Law
Juris Doctor
University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA / Sydney, NSW, Australia
About this program
Notre Dame's JD is a graduate-entry law degree run through the School of Law, built for people with an existing non-law bachelor's degree wanting to qualify for legal practice. It covers the full Priestley 11 core subjects required for admission in an accelerated postgraduate format, with practical legal skills, mooting, negotiation, a supervised legal clinic placement, woven through rather than left entirely to post-degree Practical Legal Training.
Notre Dame's law cohort is smaller than the big Sydney law schools, and the school leans into a values-based framing consistent with the university's Catholic character, which shows up in dedicated subjects on legal ethics and social justice rather than treating those as an afterthought elective.
Cost & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
5 terms of coursework
- Core (Priestley 11): Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, Property Law, Equity and Trusts, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure, Corporations Law, Professional Conduct and Ethics
- Electives: minimum 4-6 subjects, options include international law, family law, employment law
- Clinical option: supervised legal clinic placement (credit-bearing)
- Capstone: research subject or moot, final semester
- Leads to: eligibility for Practical Legal Training and admission as a legal practitioner
Admissions
Completed bachelor degree in any discipline (or equivalent); relevant work experience viewed favourably
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