Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry/Bachelor of Business combined degrees (City)

This combined degree allows students to complete qualifications in Laws and Business with a combined study plan to reduce the overall duration of the course. In the Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry, you'll focus on legal skills and critical perspectives on the function of law. You'll develop high-level communication, presentation and collaboration skills in preparation for future roles in a range of settings. If your focus is not admission to practice, the Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry allows for faster completion. Combine practical learning based on solving real-world business problems with the skills to analyse and understand key issues that businesses deal with every day. The Bachelor of Business provides you with the fundamental knowledge, contemporary case studies, workplace skills development and live industry experience to pursue a career in business.

Flinders' city campus at Festival Plaza is a place where potential meets possibility. Offering a broad range of study areas, this unique, modern space in the heart of Adelaide is designed for collaborative learning, interactive teaching and industry engagement. Positioned adjacent to the Adelaide Railway Station on North Terrace and central to trams and buses, Festival Plaza provides students with greater connection, convenience and accessibility when selecting their preferred study location.

Please note only Year 1 topics of this course will be available in 2024. If you have been granted credit transfer or wish to apply for credit transfer for this course on the basis of previous study and you are granted credit, this may mean you will not be able to enrol in Year 2 or higher year topics, nor able to enrol on a full-time basis until 2025.

While the pace of technological and social change within the legal profession is unrelenting, Flinders Law students will graduate well-prepared to take advantage of new opportunities and to make a difference in a challenging, rewarding field. Designed to equip students with the knowledge to work in the emerging areas of data protection and cybersecurity, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and social justice innovation, with a suite of core topics exploring the relationships between the law and technology.

Develop an innovation and entrepreneurial mindset to respond to 21st century opportunities, this course has international study opportunities available in China and Indonesia.

Our business graduates work throughout the world with the range of opportunities continually expanding. Many of our graduates have gone on to reach very senior positions in both the private and public sectors internationally. Develop strong practical and operational business skills, and gain real-world work experience, building networks through work placements and live industry projects. Students can succeed in their studies with free mentoring and specialised tutor programs, developing valuable work-ready skills through innovative peer review assessment activities.

Graduates of the Law degree must also complete a practical legal training course to make them eligible to apply to the Supreme Court for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia.