Juris Doctor (JD) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Juris Doctor (JD) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Designed for university graduates, Newcastle Law School’s Juris Doctor (JD) and the embedded Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) will not only open doors to employment as a lawyer, it will provide you with professional skills and attributes that are in high demand in other industries and professions. At most…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Designed for university graduates, Newcastle Law School’s Juris Doctor (JD) and the embedded Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) will not only open doors to employment as a lawyer, it will 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 to be a lawyer. As part of the embedded GDLP, we provide the required practical legal training, and we guarantee to arrange the required supervised legal workplace experience 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 JD/GDLP is not only accredited in Australia; with some further study it can help qualify you to practise law in a number of other common law countries, including Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
What you will study
The Juris Doctor (JD) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice comprises 280 units (i.e 28 x 10 unit courses), which includes 210 units of core courses including the Legal Practice courses, plus 70 units of directed courses chosen from a list of 40 courses (subject to availability).
Students can choose directed courses that they are interested in from a range of areas including (subject to availability):
Advanced Criminal Law
Commercial Law
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Competition Law and Policy
Corporate Power and Corporate Accountability: Pathways to Socially Responsible Business
Employment Law
Environmental Law
Equal Opportunity Law
Family Law
Indigenous Peoples, Issues and the Law
Intellectual Property Law
International Air and Space Law
International Human Rights Law
Internet Law
Jurisprudence
Law and Religion
Law for Startups
Mediation Skills and Theory
Mining Law
Taxation Law
Career opportunities
Graduating with the Juris Doctor (JD) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice gives you the skills and knowledge to practice as a lawyer, and is also the springboard to a range of exciting professional careers.
The following list provides some example jobs available to graduates of a Juris Doctor/Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice. Some of these jobs will depend on the amount and level of study undertaken, level of experience, the combination of other majors and electives studied, while some may require further study.
Barrister
Compliance Officer
Corporate Lawyer
Criminal Lawyer
Environmental Lawyer
Family Lawyer
Foreign Affairs and Trade Officer
Human Rights Lawyer
Industrial Relations Lawyer
Judge’s Associate
Law Clerk/Paralegal
Lawyer
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