Juris Doctor / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Designed for university graduates, the Juris Doctor (JD) and the embedded Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) will not only open doors to employment as a lawyer, but it will also provide you with professional skills and attributes that are in high demand in other industries and professions.
At most other law schools, after you finish your JD you must then undertake practical legal training and arrange supervised legal workplace experience before you can apply for admission to be a lawyer in Australia. As part of our embedded GDLP however, we provide the requisite practical legal training experience and we also guarantee to arrange the required external supervised workplace placement for you. This means you can be ready to practise law after three years of full-time study, with no need for further supervision or training before you start your legal career.
The School of Law and Justice is the only law school in Australia that both runs its own legal centre and directly provides students with the practical legal training and much of the supervised clinical legal experience required to qualify to practise law.

Entry to the JD/GradDipLegPrac is available to students who have one of the following qualifications with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 or above:

a Bachelor Degree

a Bachelor Honours Degree

a Master's Degree

Students who have gained one of the above qualifications from a University outside of Australia in the discipline of law with a GPA of 4.0 or above can be admitted.

Students with a Bachelor of Laws degree from an Australian University cannot be admitted.

Applicants with one of the above qualifications with a GPA of 3.5 may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Students with an overseas law degree qualification can apply for up to 80 units of specified or unspecified credit through recognition of prior learning.

Where a student seeks specified credit for one or more of the eleven courses normally required for admission to practice law in Australia (known as the Priestley 11), then this will be considered where applicants have satisfied the NSW Legal Profession Admissions Board (or the equivalent body in another Australian state) that courses completed at the relevant overseas institution are substantially equivalent to the courses for which they are seeking specified credit.

TOEFL paper-based test score of 589; TOEFL internet based score of 94; IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0; PTE GSE score of 65; Cambridge English: Advanced score of 67.