Bachelor of Laws

Before applying make sure you understand the eligibility and entry requirements for your chosen degree.

Look out for any prerequisites or assumed knowledge subjects. Some degrees also have additional entry requirements like interviews and auditions.

Roles for law graduates are expanding significantly. Those who become lawyers can become involved in court work, or enter practice as a solicitor. But many graduates also pursue careers in industry, government, commerce, community organisations or academic institutions.

This huge range of options, and the opportunities and influence they afford, gives a career in law a distinctive appeal and makes its study one of the most popular choices among today’s students.

Direct access to industry leaders and paid internship opportunities: The Academy by Deloitte
Students who as part of their studies take part in The Academy by Deloitte experience will have the benefit of undertaking a paid internship with Deloitte. This internship is designed to shape their business readiness through significant real-world client exposure, access to multiple networking opportunities and relevant professional training.

Throughout their degree, students can apply to undertake work placements, either through internships or through Clinical Legal Education courses. Each placement or internship is in conjunction with a law elective (three units). Currently the following is available for students:

Clinical Legal Education

Clinical Legal Education is a three-point elective subject available to students in their final year of study in their Bachelor of Laws program. This practical subject gives law students the chance to work in a legal office one day per week and participate in the day-to-day provision of legal services to people in need.

Human Rights Law Internships

Many students are interested in working in the field of human rights when they graduate. However, it is a popular field and finding a job can be competitive. The Adelaide Law School offers a number of human rights electives and student can also receive three units of academic credit for undertaking the Human Rights Internship course.

Native Title Internships

Students completing internships with native title representative bodies and other organisations which deal with native title in Australia or Indigenous law and policy for a period of four to six weeks to complete. The internship enables students to build on their understanding of native title law or Indigenous law and policy by gaining an appreciation of its practical operation. The associated elective course aims to give depth and context to student's existing knowledge of native title law and Indigenous law and policy.

Public Law Internship Program

Available year-round, Public Law Internships are a great way for students to apply the knowledge of public law theory gained in their degree to practical issues. Through these internships, students are involved in the day-to-day activities of public law offices.

Opportunities are available at public law institutions in Adelaide and Canberra, including:

• the State Ombudsman's Office
• the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• the Commonwealth Ombudsman's Office (summer internship)
• the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (summer internship).

From time to time additional internship positions are offered by the South Australian Crown Solicitor's Office, the South Australian Solicitor-General's Office and the Attorney-General's Department's Office for Legislation and Legal Policy.

Adelaide Law Review

The Adelaide Law Review (ALR) course introduces students to legal publishing and editing. Students will:

• consider the legal journal as a means of legal education, involving them in the production of the annual editions of the ALR
• consider the role of legal publications, critically analyse submitted material and comment upon a diverse range of legal scholarship
• develop skills in advanced legal writing, copy-editing and journal production.

South Australian Law Reform Institute

In the South Australian Law Reform Institute course, students are provided with the opportunity to work with the Director of the Institute to research and develop law reform proposals.

Our Bachelor of Laws is accredited by the Legal Practitioners' Education and Admission Council in South Australia; and provides the academic foundation for admission to legal practice throughout Australia.

To be admitted to practice in Australia, however, you must complete further practical legal training.

In South Australia, we—the University of Adelaide—together with the Law Society of South Australia, provide this additional training through our Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. But if you intend to seek admission to practice elsewhere, you should seek advice from the admitting authority in the relevant jurisdiction.

Upon graduation from the Bachelor of Laws and completion of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, you'll be eligible to be admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia (with a restricted practicing certificate). Once admitted, you can then apply for admission in any other Australian jurisdiction.

For more information contact:

The Law Society of South Australia
Level 10, 178 North Terrace
Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia
Phone: +61 8 8229 0200
Email: email@lawsocietysa.asn.au