Our Juris Doctor with embedded Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (‘JD/GDLP’) provides the requisite Practical Legal Training experience to practise as a lawyer. We guarantee to arrange your required supervised workplace placement, meaning there will be no further supervision or training required before you can apply to be admitted to start practising law.*

You’ll study at Australia’s top clinical law school and gain in-demand professional skills applicable across many professions.

We offer competitive tuition fees, and modern learning spaces. Located in Newcastle’s thriving CBD, NUspace is close to Newcastle’s court precinct, making it easy to network with local practitioners and attend court.

This degree is not only accredited in Australia. With further study it can help qualify you to practise law in a number of other common law countries, including Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

This program is accredited by the Legal Profession Admission Board as satisfying the academic and practical legal training prerequisite components for admission, as a lawyer, onto the roll the Supreme Court of NSW.