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Please ensure that you follow the study requirements of the academic year you were admitted or, if accepted, will be admitted to the program.

A Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree provides candidates with a law degree that opens doors to a diverse range of professional careers in Australia and around the world.

In addition to equipping you with an understanding of law and the contexts in which it operates, the LLB (Hons) places a significant emphasis on building your high-level research skills through opportunities to conduct independent legal research.

Through the LLB (Hons), you will graduate with an honours-degree, giving you additional advantages in establishing your career or providing a strong foundation for postgraduate study. The program satisfies the academic component to be admitted as a legal practitioner in Australia.

The Bachelor of Accounting is designed to develop your knowledge and skills in reporting, analysing and managing financial resources in business and government entities. In addition to meeting the education requirements for membership of the Australian accounting professional bodies, the degree offers flexibility for you to study in related disciplines of your interest, including finance, business information systems, management, marketing, international business and corporate sustainability.

You will be equipped with the ability to critically analyse emerging accounting issues, and be inspired by the professional and scholarly accounting research that provides you with insights into issues underlying the accounting numbers, thus fostering your academic and professional competence. Gaining these academic and professional attributes will enhance your accounting career opportunities, or pursuance of advanced accounting studies.

Employment Opportunities

Law graduates may find work either in areas where a law degree is a professional requirement or more general fields in which law is especially useful.

A Bachelor of Laws would normally be a requirement for the following occupations: a Barrister or Solicitor in professional practice; a Legal Officer in government departments or private enterprise; a Corporate Legal Officer in private industry, commerce and finance; community legal work; law teaching and academic research; a Judge's Associate, and legal journalism.

To practice as a Barrister or Solicitor graduates must also complete Practical Legal Training at an accredited institution.

More general fields of employment include: the Australian Foreign Service; industrial relations; social welfare; government administration; business management; lobbying; media; public relations; law librarianship; court reporting; environmental agencies; technology and communications; and Federal and State police forces. 

Law graduates may find work either in areas where a law degree is a professional requirement or more general fields in which law is especially useful.

A Bachelor of Laws would normally be a requirement for the following occupations: a Barrister or Solicitor in professional practice; a Legal Officer in government departments or private enterprise; a Corporate Legal Officer in private industry, commerce and finance; community legal work; law teaching and academic research; a Judge's Associate, and legal journalism.

To practice as a Barrister or Solicitor graduates must also complete Practical Legal Training at an accredited institution.

More general fields of employment include: the Australian Foreign Service; industrial relations; social welfare; government administration; business management; lobbying; media; public relations; law librarianship; court reporting; environmental agencies; technology and communications; and Federal and State police forces. 

Learning Outcomes

1. Review, analyse, and synthesise knowledge from primary and secondary legal sources to identify and provide solutions to complex legal and justice problems.
2. Interpret and critically evaluate the nature of law and its social and ethical impact on society, at a local, national, and international level.
3. Undertake technical legal research to access a range of legal materials, literature databases, and other online sources, and apply legal or transdisciplinary research methodologies to evaluate and synthesise findings.
4. Communicate to a variety of legal and non-legal audiences in a range of oral and written formats.
5. Develop insight into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ diverse perspectives on laws and society and evaluate their relationship and importance to contemporary Australian law and society.
6. Work both independently and collaboratively as required, and evaluate and reflect on feedback to develop personal, professional and ethical capability across a range of legal disciplines.

1. Evaluate and provide solutions to routine accounting problems.
2. Exercise judgement to provide solutions to accounting problems using, where appropriate, multidisciplinary perspectives.
3. Critically apply theoretical and technical accounting knowledge and skills to address issues in a broad business context.
4. Justify and communicate accounting advice and ideas to both specialists and non-specialists from other disciplines.

Admission Requirements

Pathways

N/A

Prerequisites

There are no formal program prerequisites. But assumed knowledge is:-ACT: Mathematical Methods (Major) or NSW: HSC Mathematics Advanced or equivalent. More information about interstate subject equivalencies can be found here.

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are combined with an applicant's secondary education results to determine their Selection Rank. ANU offers adjustment factors based on equity, diversity, and/or performance principles, such as for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies.

To be eligible for adjustment factors, you must have:

• achieved a Selection Rank of 70 or more before adjustment factors are applied
• if you have undertaken higher education, completed less than one year full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) of a higher education program
• applied for an eligible ANU bachelor degree program

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) flexible double degree component requires completion of 144 units, of which:

A maximum of 36 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 144 units must include:

96 units from completion of the following compulsory courses: 

• LAWS1201 Foundations of Australian Law 
• LAWS1202 Lawyers, Justice and Ethics 
• LAWS1203 Torts 
• LAWS1204 Contracts 
• LAWS1205 Australian Public Law 
• LAWS1206 Criminal Law and Procedure 
• LAWS2201 Administrative Law 
• LAWS2202 Commonwealth Constitutional Law 
• LAWS2203 Corporations Law 
• LAWS2204 Property 
• LAWS2205 Equity and Trusts 
• LAWS2207 Evidence 
• LAWS2244 Litigation and Dispute Management 
• LAWS2248 Legal Research and Writing 
• LAWS2249 Legal Theory 
• LAWS2250 International Law 

48 units from completion of 4000-level LAWS-coded courses, which may contribute to meeting the transdisciplinary course global requirement, and which must also include: 

 a minimum of 6 units of Research Capstone courses from the following list: 

• LAWS4010 Jessup Moot 
• LAWS4213 Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law 
• LAWS4218 Feminist and Critical Legal Theory 
• LAWS4601 Comparative Human Rights 
• LAWS4230 Law Internship (Capstone) 
• LAWS4256 Law, Gender Identities and Sexualities 
• LAWS4262 Advanced Administrative Law 
• LAWS4299 Laws History and Context 
• LAWS4300 Undergraduate Law Dissertation
• LAWS4302 International Law Clinic 
• LAWS4315 Law and Development in the Contemporary South Pacific 
• LAWS4700 Law Research Capstone Project 

HONS4300 Final Honours Grade will be used to record the class of honours. The final honours mark will be calculated using the formula S (mark x units) / S units, giving NCN and WN a nominal mark of zero. All LAWS-coded courses will be included in the calculation. 

The Bachelor of Accounting flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

84 units from the following compulsory courses:

BUSN1001 Business Reporting and Analysis

BUSN1002 Accounting Processes and Systems

BUSN1101 Introduction to Commercial Law

BUSN2011 Management Accounting

BUSN2015 Company Accounting

BUSN2101 Law of Business Entities

BUSN3001 Accounting Theory

BUSN3002 Auditing

BUSN3014 Principles of Tax Law

ECON1101 Microeconomics 1

ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1

FINM1001 Foundations of Finance

INFS2005 Accounting Information Systems

STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

12 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU, which may include courses from the following list:

BUSN2037 Fundamentals of Accounting Data Analytics

BUSN3003 Advanced Management Accounting

BUSN3006 Public Sector Accounting

BUSN3008 Financial Reporting By Corporations

BUSN3017 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting

BUSN3051 Advanced Accounting Data Analytics

CBEA2001 Indigenous Perspectives in Business and Economics

STAT2008 Regression Modelling

Minors

Bachelor of Accounting Minors

Specialisations

Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Specialisations

Study Options