Faculty of Law

Degree Programs

Honours in the Juris Doctor

COURSE OVERVIEW | COURSE STRUCTURE

Outstanding Juris Doctor graduates may qualify to receive their degree With Honours. Candidates for the honours degree must fulfil the requirements for the pass degree and achieve such standard of proficiency as the Faculty of Law may from time to time determine.

Under the current policy:

  • an average mark of 80% or more qualifies for First-Class Honours
  • an average mark of 75% or more qualifies for the degree with Second Class Honours Division A
  • an average mark of 70% or more will qualifies for the degree with Second Class Honours Division B.

Only law subjects completed at Bond University will be taken into consideration in determining these averages. A minimum of sixteen full-unit law subjects (at least two-thirds of which must be compulsory law subjects) must be completed at Bond University in order to qualify for an Honours degree. A candidate who has completed fewer Bond law subjects may be eligible for Honours where the Dean determines that this is appropriate in light of the candidate's performance in legal studies at another institution.

Law subjects taken at other universities and non-law subjects taken at Bond as electives or part of a combined degree do not form part of the computation of averages for Honours.