Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws

Course code: 0080 * Course abbreviation: BA/LLB * Total credit points required: 252 * 5 years full-time, 10 years part-time * Managing faculty: Law

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This double-degree program allows students to complete the requirements for the two individual programs in a minimum of five years of study.

Course structure

The arts component requires that students complete 96 points of arts units consisting of three first-year sequences of study, a major sequence in an arts discipline, a minor sequence in another arts discipline and two additional arts elective units. Refer to the Faculty of Arts website at www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study_areas/ for a list of the arts disciplines available.

The law component requires that students complete 156 points of study, including 12 compulsory units and a further 84 points of elective law units.

Students may graduate with the Bachelor of Arts, or undertake honours in arts* at the end of three years of study, provided they have met the requirements of the Bachelor of Arts program and completed a minimum of 144 points of total study.

* See the course entry for the Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/Bachelor of Laws below

Course requirements

First year - 48 points

LAW1101 Introduction to legal reasoning
LAW1102 Law in society
LAW3301 Criminal law and procedure A
LAW3302 Criminal law B
24 points of first-year units from the Faculty of Arts consisting of two units each from two different arts disciplines

Second year - 54 points

LAW2101 Contract A
LAW2102 Contract B
12 points of first-year units from Faculty of Arts, consisting of two units of study in one arts discipline
12 points of second-year units from the Faculty of Arts, consisting of two units in the minor sequence
12 points of second-year units from the Faculty of Arts, consisting of two units in the major discipline
6 points of any year-level units from any Faculty of Arts discipline

Third year - 54 points

LAW2201 Torts A
LAW2202 Torts B
LAW3401 Property A
LAW3402 Property B
24 points of third-year units, or18 points of third-year and 6 points of second-year units from the Faculty of Arts, consisting of four units in the major area of study
6 points of any year-level units from any Faculty of Arts discipline

Fourth year - 48 points

LAW3201 Constitutional law
LAW4169 Equity
LAW4170 Trusts
LAW4171 Corporations law
24 points of elective law units

Fifth year -48 points

LAW3101 Administrative law
LAW 5104 Civil procedure
LAW5125 Lawyers, ethics and society
LAW5159 Evidence
24 points of elective law units

Students have a maximum time limit of 10 years to complete the course from the date of commencement.

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