Highlights

• Develop your creative thinking, innovation, entrepreneurial and project management skills, while meeting the academic requirements for admission to legal practice in Australia.
• Complete 2 separate degrees in 5.5 years full-time.
• Design your own degree by exploring your creative talents and choosing a creative industries major, as well as studying law.
• Benefit from meaningful connections with high profile industry employers and classes with leading law experts.
• Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work.
• Prepare for a career as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions, government or regulatory bodies, or in law firms with specialist interests in the creative industries.

Why choose this course?

This course allows you to combine your creative interest with your law qualification. Whether you choose to work in the legal fraternity or within the creative industries, you will graduate with a unique set of skills that will enhance your employment options. You will gain key disciplinary knowledge in your chosen creative major, along with skills in creativity and innovation, as well as a law degree. You can choose a creative industries major from one of creative and professional writing; media and communication; drama and performance; entertainment; fashion communication; interactive and visual design; music and sound; and screen content production.

Our Bachelor of Laws (Honours) is a higher-level qualification than a bachelor degree, as it has honours-level content integrated throughout the course. The advanced knowledge and skills in this course will benefit your professional career, or future research and study.

Our contemporary law degree prepares you to think ahead and allows you to take advantage of employment opportunities in growth areas or newly emerging sectors, such as intellectual property and technology.