BACHELOR OF LAWS/BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
If you want to be a first-class lawyer, fight for justice in the courtroom, or branch out into government, business or the community sector, study the Bachelor Laws/Bachelor of Commerce at ECU.
This double degree opens your career options and will equip you with skills for the courtroom and beyond, providing greater scope and options for a rewarding career in the legal, corporate, commercial and social justice fields.
Through industry work placements, networking opportunities, as well as learning from academics with industry backgrounds, you’ll graduate with the skills you need to forge a career in your chosen field. The majors available cover a broad range of disciplines, and are all created in consultation with industry with many being professionally accredited and recognised by relevant industry bodies.
ECU’s law program goes beyond the classroom. You’ll have the chance to put theory into practise and work on real life cases in our Law Access Program, compete in mooting competitions around the world, and gain access to the Law Society Peer Mentoring Program.
The course is fully accredited and can be studied on-campus or online. This means you can fit study around your life. You can also tailor the course to your area of interest and select elective units in specialised areas of law.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Adopt professional and ethical behaviour and/or personal citizenship that reflect the interrelationship between ethics, code of conduct, justice and community service.
- Apply broad and coherent range of legal and business knowledge incorporating international/global/cultural/Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
- Collaborate effectively in team settings to produce measurable outcomes.
- Communicate legal and business knowledge, concepts and advice using relevant technologies clearly and persuasively.
- Exercise critical thinking, judgement and intellectual independence to evaluate, consolidate and synthesise legal and business knowledge, and solve related challenging problems.
- Reflect on feedback and critique on own performance to support personal and professional development.
- Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate solutions in legal and business-based situations
