Juris Doctor

JD

Course Overview | Course Structure

Course Structure

Students must complete 19 compulsory subjects, including all the ‘Priestley Eleven’ areas required to practise law in Australia:

  • Australian Legal System
  • Legal Skills
  • Principles of Tortious Liability
  • Principles of Contractual Liability
  • Law of Obligations
  • Civil Remedies
  • Criminal Law and Procedure A
  • Criminal Law and Procedure B
  • Constitutional Law
  • Property Law
  • Land Law
  • Equity
  • Personal Property Transactions
  • Business Associations
  • Corporations Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Evidence
  • Civil Procedure
  • Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct*
  • Bookkeeping and Trust Accounts*

* denotes half subject

Plus 5 Master’s level law electives which include:

  • Australian Government and Politics
  • Advanced Commercial Negotiation
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Basic Trial Advocacy
  • Competition Law
  • Copyright and Entertainment Law
  • Dispute Systems Design
  • Electronic Commerce and the Law
  • Employment and Labour Relations Law
  • Equitable Remedies
  • Family Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Immigration Law
  • Industrial Property Law : Trade Secrets, Designs, Patents and Trademarks
  • Information Technology and the Law
  • International Banking and Finance Law
  • International Contracts
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Investment Transactions
  • International Law
  • International Trade Law System
  • International Trade Transactions
  • Law and Medicine
  • Media and Telecommunications Law
  • Mediation
  • Miscarriages of Justice
  • Negotiation
  • Principles of Taxation Law
  • Public Interest Law Clinic
  • Succession
  • Takeovers and Securities Regulation
  • Taxation of Business Entities
  • Taxation of International Business
  • Theory and Principles of Dispute Resolution

(Note: all electives are offered every year)