Bachelor (Honours)
Designed in consultation with industry to ensure you acquire a strong foundation of knowledge and experience our law programs support and develop students to successfully transition from university to their legal career.
Students benefit from innovative scholarly teaching and learning through:
This double degree offers you the ultimate in career choice. You may find employment as a solicitor in-house lawyer Crown Law officer corporate secretary policy officer or public servant or take on roles in business or industry such as an accountant or merchant banker. Your business degree will give you a broad base of commercial knowledge making you more attractive to employers in legal environments.
Our graduates have an excellent track record of securing exciting positions. Legal career options include private practice in-house counsel government (local state federal) ministerial adviser researcher in parliamentary libraries court registrar public prosecutor public defender (Legal Aid) crown lawyer (civil litigation) community legal centres alternative dispute resolution legal academic law librarian and legal publishing.
This course is ideal for specialist areas such as corporate law company takeovers mergers and acquisitions corporate governance compliance law taxation law insolvency practice and intellectual property law.
This course is approved by the Queensland Legal Practitioners Admissions Board. If you want to become a lawyer at the end of your degree you will need to complete further practical legal training (PLT) before you can apply for admission to practice. We offer PLT in the form of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
Please refer to the Bachelor of Business online course information for professional recognition details on your intended business major.
QUT's 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.
Bachelor of Business (Honours) optionHigh-achieving students who wish to take further studies may enrol in BS63 Bachelor of Business (Honours).
Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Business program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study business and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Under the business component students will complete 192 credit points (16 units) consisting of eight Business School core units and an eight-unit major.
Students must choose a major from:
For professional recognition the accounting structure is slightly different. Please complete the units outlined in the structures below in order to meet the academic entry requirements for the relevant professional bodies. If you commenced in 2021 or prior please ensure you complete LLB347 Taxation Law in the Law component of your double degree.
Under the law component you will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):
Students are required to complete 528 credit points comprised of 192 credit points for the Bachelor of Business program and 336 credit points for the Bachelor of Laws program. You will study business and law units in your first four years and for the remainder of this course you will concentrate on law studies.
Under the business component students will complete 192 credit points (16 units) consisting of eight Business School core units and an eight-unit major.
Students must choose a major from:
For professional recognition the accounting structure is slightly different. Please complete the units outlined in the structures below in order to meet the academic entry requirements for the relevant professional bodies. If you commenced in 2021 or prior please ensure you complete LLB347 Taxation Law in the Law component of your double degree.
Under the law component you will complete 336 credit points of core units and a mixture of law electives made up of
*Students commencing from 2019 may select a general law elective in place of the introductory law elective
**Students commencing from 2019 have the option to complete the Law Technology and Innovation minor or 4 non-law electives (48 credit points) or a university wide minor in place of 4 general law electives (48 credit points). Successful completion of a minor will be recognised on the academic record and/or the Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement.
Honours-level units
96 credit points of the following honours units will be used to determine the honours levels of the LLB (Hons):