Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Arts

Course Details

The Griffith Law School offers a professional legal curriculum that focuses on the core areas of legal practice together with legal skills that lawyers must have. It also provides you with opportunities to choose law electives that are aligned with your own particular interests. You can also take advantage of study abroad opportunities and gain credit towards your Griffith degree for approved courses taken at international universities. Griffith Law School staff are committed to a set of values which guide their teaching and research, as well as their relationships with students. These values are summarised as Scholarship, Character, Responsibility and Respect. With the world now a global community, international trade has an even more important role than it has had in the past, as countries compete with each other for export income. Legal advice in companies trading internationally is pivotal to their ability to be successful. You will also have the option to choose an Arts major and develop specialist expertise in contemporary fields such as journalism, public relations, security studies or criminal justice or you can study more traditional fields such as sociology, history and literary studies. The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) encompasses 30 credit points of research dissertation. As well as the opportunity for career and skill advancement, the Honours program creates a pathway for Law students to move to Higher Degree Research (HDR) studies via the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs. If you complete the five Canadian Law courses, you will be eligible for entry into the legal profession in Canada's common law provinces when accompanied by a Certificate of Qualification from the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

Qualification: Bachelor Degree (Honours)