Juris Doctor

at Monash University

The course is designed to equip you with basic legal knowledge and skills that are required for admission to legal practice, with the opportunity to develop specialised knowledge in areas of law of your choice. The basic knowledge is imparted through three broad themes: legal methodology and legal practice, public law and private law. The specialised knowledge and advanced skills are imparted in later year elective units.
 

• Part A. Legal methodology and legal practice
  This theme includes the nature of law, and particularly statute law enacted by Parliaments and common law developed by courts. It also includes the key concepts, principles and methods of research and reasoning that enable lawyers to identify and interpret law and apply it to relevant facts in order to provide legal advice. It covers the law of procedure and evidence that governs judicial proceedings, alternative methods of resolving legal disputes, and the code of ethics that regulates the professional conduct of legal practitioners.
• Part B. Public law
  Public law includes constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. It concerns the powers and procedures of the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government, and how they are regulated and controlled by "the rule of law".  It also concerns the legal relationship between government and individuals, including the protection of the individual rights.
• Part C. Private law
  Private law deals with legal relationships between legal persons, including corporations as well as individuals.  It includes the study of property rights, contractual rights and obligations, wrongs (called "torts") such as trespass and the negligent infliction of injury, and the law of equity and trusts.
• Part D. Extending specialised knowledge and advanced skills
  In these studies you will complete at least one commercial law unit and a professional project and will also add to your expertise by choosing from a broad range of elective law units. Elective law units enable you to develop specialised knowledge and advanced skills in areas of law that suit your own interests, skills and career goals.

Minimum Entry Requirements (International students)
Qualifications

• An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) with at least a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.0 on a 7 point scale.
  
  OR
   
• An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) with at least a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.0 on a 7 point scale and a LSAT score of 150+ (taken within 5 years prior to applying for admission).
  
  OR
   
• An equivalent qualification and experience approved by the faculty.

Additional selection criteria:
Applicants who have not completed any formal study in the last eight years are required to submit a current curriculum vitae and a completed Monash JD personal statement.

English entry requirements

Level C
 

• IELTS (Academic): 7.0 Overall score, with minimum band scores: Listening 6.5, Reading 6.5, Writing 6.5 and Speaking 6.5    
• Pearson Test of English (Academic):  65 Overall score, with minimum scores: Listening 58, Reading 58, Speaking 58 and Writing 58
• TOEFL Internet-based test: 94 Overall score, with minimum scores: Reading 19, Listening 20, Speaking 20 and Writing 24

Fees
Fees are subject to change annually.

International fee
 

• Fees are per 48 credit points which represents a standard full-time course load for a year.
• A$43,900