Subjects overview
This program can be completed in 2 years (6 semesters)
Compulsory Subjects
Students must complete the following 140 credit points (140 CP) of subjects.
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LAWS76-105: Legal Foundations (10CP)
Legal Foundations is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online. It introduces students to the sources, authority, and institutional structure of Australian law. The subject situates legal doctrine within historical, Indigenous, international and political contexts, examining how legal power is constituted, justified, and contested. Students engage with competing theoretical perspectives on law, legitimacy, and justice, and analyse the foundational concepts that underpin the Australian legal system. The subject develops foundational written and oral legal argument skills and establishes the analytical and contextual framework for later doctrinal and skills-based subjects.
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LAWS76-106: Legal Skills (10CP)
Legal Skills is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online. It develops the core methods, reasoning processes, and communication practices used in professional legal work. Students learn how to research, interpret, and apply statutes and cases; analyse legal problems; and select appropriate dispute-resolution strategies. The subject emphasises professional written and oral communication, ethical decision-making, and applied problem-solving through structured exercises and simulated practice contexts. It provides an essential bridge between foundational legal knowledge and advanced doctrinal and practice-oriented subjects.
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LAWS76-201: Contract Law (10CP)
Contract Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online. It examines the principles governing the formation, content, enforcement, and termination of contracts, including capacity, consideration, privity, vitiating factors, discharge, remedies, and assignment. Contract doctrine is analysed within its commercial, social, and regulatory contexts, with attention to both common law and statutory frameworks. Students develop advanced doctrinal reasoning, risk assessment, negotiation, and professional advisory skills relevant to contractual disputes and transactions. The subject covers the prescribed areas of knowledge in satisfaction of the academic requirements for admission as a legal practitioner.
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LAWS76-202: Tort Law (10CP)
Tort Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online. It explores the principles governing civil liability for harm, including intentional torts, negligence, statutory civil liability regimes, and emerging forms of responsibility. Students analyse how liability is allocated across complex factual scenarios and how responsibility is translated into remedies. The subject emphasises rigorous doctrinal reasoning alongside critical evaluation of the policy and normative foundations of tort law. Through applied problem-solving, students develop advanced skills in legal analysis and professional written argument. The subject covers the prescribed areas of knowledge in satisfaction of the academic requirements for admission as a legal practitioner.
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LAWS76-203: Criminal Law and Procedure (10CP)
Criminal Law and Procedure is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines criminal law and procedure, with a focus upon the definition and elements of crime, the aims of criminal law, homicide, non-fatal offences against the person, offences against property, general criminal doctrine and defences and criminal procedure. Topics including attempts, participation in crime, drunkenness, mistake, and strict responsibility are also examined.
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LAWS76-204: Property Law (10CP)
Property Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the general principles of the law relating to real and personal property including ownership and possession; creation, fragmentation, acquisition and disposal of proprietary interests; statutory registration schemes; securitisation including mortgages; legal and equitable remedies; and real property specific concepts including Torrens title, native title, licenses and leasehold estates, covenants and boundaries, and strata title.
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LAWS76-216: Constitutional Law (10CP)
Constitutional Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines Australian constitutional law in both a local and a comparative context, considering State and Commonwealth constitutions and constitutional systems. Topics considered include the rule of law, the separation of powers, principles of constitutional interpretation, the rules governing exercises of legislative, executive and judicial power, constitutional change, constitutional principles relating to individual rights and freedoms, the relationship between federal, state and territory governments including inconsistency of laws, and fiscal federalism.
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LAWS76-310: Company Law (10CP)
Company Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the law of companies, with a focus upon corporate personality; the incorporation process; the corporate constitution; company contracts; administration of companies and management of the business of companies; duties and liabilities of directors and officers; share capital and membership; members’ remedies; company credit and security arrangements; and winding up of companies.
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LAWS76-313: Equity (10CP)
Equity is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the law of equity, including the nature of equity; equitable rights, titles and interests; equitable assignments; estoppel in equity; fiduciary obligations; unconscionable transactions; and equitable remedies. It also includes an examination of trusts, with particular reference to the various types of trusts and the manner and form of their creation and variation; the duties, rights and powers of trustees; the consequences of breach of trust; and the remedies available to, and respective rights of, beneficiaries.
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LAWS76-317: Administrative Law (10CP)
Administrative Law is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines administrative law with a focus upon organisation and structure of the administration; administrative law theory; common law and statutory avenues of judicial review at Commonwealth and State level; grounds of judicial review; remedies; Crown immunity; the Commonwealth Administrative Review Tribunal, and the State and Territory Administrative Tribunals; statutory review; and freedom of information.
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LAWS76-318: Evidence (10CP)
Evidence is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines evidence law and practice in civil and criminal proceedings, focusing on the basic principles and categories of evidence, competence, compellability and examination of witnesses, privilege, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, admissions and confessions, and illegally obtained evidence.
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LAWS76-325: Civil Dispute Resolution (10CP)
Civil Dispute Resolution is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the formalities involved in bringing civil proceedings, with a focus upon court adjudication under an adversary system; the cost of litigation and the use of costs to control litigation; service of originating process; joinder of claims and parties; defining the questions for trial; obtaining evidence; disposition without trial, including the compromise of litigation; extra-judicial determination of issues arising in the course of litigation; judgment; appeal; enforcement. Litigation proceedings are contrasted and compared with alternative dispute resolution measures and requirements. The professional obligations of practitioners engaged in litigation and dispute resolution, and the obligations of parties involved in disputes are also considered.
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LAWS76-326: Ethics and Professional Responsibility (10CP)
Ethics and Professional Responsibility is a compulsory subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the regulation of the legal profession and the scope of lawyers’ professional responsibilities, with a focus on the practitioner's duties to the law, to the courts, to clients, and to fellow practitioners. It includes an introduction to the principles relating to the holding of money on trust.
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LAWS76-327: Law Placement (10CP)
Law Placement is a compulsory final semester subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It provides students with the opportunity to gain practical experience in a legal workplace. The subject aims to develop students' understanding of legal practice and enhance their skills in a professional legal environment. The student must complete at least 15 days in an approved legal workplace.
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Recommended Elective Law Postgraduate Subjects
Students must complete 100 credit points (100CP) of Recommended Law elective subjects.
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LAWS78-100: The Future Lawyer (10CP)
The Future Lawyer is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It is an examination of the future of the legal profession, exploring trends and innovations that will shape the role of lawyers. It includes consideration of the impact of globalisation, the rise of legal tech startups, changes in legal education, and the evolving expectations of clients. Students are encouraged to think creatively about their future careers and develop strategies for staying relevant and competitive in a dynamic legal services sector.
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LAWS78-101: Contemporary Legal Issues (10CP)
Contemporary Legal Issues is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It is an examination of current and emerging legal issues that are reshaping the legal practice landscape. Topics include human rights, climate law, cybersecurity, and international trade. Students analyse the practical, legal, social, and ethical implications of these issues and how they are contributing to the emergence of entirely new practice areas and specialisations for lawyers.
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LAWS78-102: Legal Innovation and Technology (10CP)
Legal Innovation and Technology is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It is an examination of the transformative impact of technology on the legal profession and the legal services sector. It includes consideration of the various legal tech tools, including e-discovery, document automation, and legal research platforms, as well as the ethical considerations and regulatory challenges associated with legal technology. It includes consideration of the ways in which AI is being used in areas such as predictive analytics, contract review, and legal research, as well as the legal and ethical implications of AI, including issues of bias, accountability, and privacy.
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LAWS78-103: The Business of Law (10CP)
The Business of Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It is an examination of the business aspects of legal practice, including law firm management, financial management (including trust accounting), marketing, and client relations. Students will learn about the economic forces driving the legal industry, strategies for building a successful legal practice, and the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship in law. This subject also develops students’ legal relationship skills including their ability to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, enhance their emotional intelligence, develop effective communication strategies, and manage work teams.
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LAWS78-104: Mediation (10CP)
Mediation is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online. It examines the theory, regulation, and practice of mediation within contemporary dispute resolution systems. The subject explores the historical development, ethical foundations, and institutional role of mediation in domestic and transnational contexts. Students develop advanced mediation skills through structured simulations, with attention to power dynamics, cultural competence, ethical obligations, and technology-assisted dispute resolution.
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LAWS78-105: Legal Practice (10CP)
Legal Practice is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It is an examination of several legal practice areas that students are likely to encounter in their legal careers including criminal law, family law, real estate and property law, succession law and tax law.
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LAWS78-106: Global Law (10CP)
Global Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the history, principles, doctrines and practice of international and comparative law.
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LAWS78-107: Advanced Private Law (10CP)
Advanced Private Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It deepens students’ understanding of private law by critically examining advanced issues in contract, tort, and property law. Building on the foundational knowledge acquired in earlier subjects, students engage with complex legal problems involving overlapping doctrines, evolving jurisprudence, and contemporary challenges in private law practice.
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LAWS78-108: Competition and Consumer Law (10CP)
Competition and Consumer Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines the legal frameworks regulating market conduct and consumer protection in Australia, with a focus on the interpretation and application of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
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LAWS78-109: Advanced Commercial Law (10CP)
Advanced Commercial Law is an elective subject in the Juris Doctor Online program offered by the Faculty of Law. It examines a range of areas of Australian commercial law including agency, insurance, personal property securities, commercial leasing, sale of goods, and intellectual property, building on the foundational knowledge from earlier subjects.
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