School of Law

With 350 work placement partners on the books, you'll gain real world experience that suits your career goals.

Our Work Integrated Learning (WIL) electives provide practical experience and credit towards your degree. A dedicated placement coordinator offers tailored advice and arranges placements.

Overseas work experience is also available in places like China, Japan, Bhutan and Vanuatu.

'My experience with the Legal Clinic unit was invaluable, particularly in helping me secure a clerkship​.

I undertook a placement at the Salvos Legal Humanitarian clinic where I was exposed to a variety of different legal fields, incredible mentors and accomplished colleagues.

Being able to talk passionately and genuinely about my experience provided a strong talking point during interview.'

Erin Smith

Moots (mock trials) teach you the art of courtroom procedure and how the law is applied.

Students are coached by lawyers who volunteer their time to share their experience.

Our dedicated courtrooms provide a real-world learning environment.

Students compete in interstate, international and in-house competitions and we host two prestigious mooting competitions.

Our mooting teams have long had a reputation for being strong competitors, in Australia and internationally.

Winners Bianca Stringer, Viktoria Naumova and Rhiannon Dudley are pictured with their coach, Dr Lucy Cradduck (second right).

The Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot Competition encourages the best and brightest students around the globe to learn about international insolvency law and international commercial litigation.

Our 2018 event took place in Vancouver in collaboration with the International and International Insolvency Institute (INSOL) and the University of British Columbia.

Fletcher International Insolvency Moot

We host the annual QUT Torts Moot, welcoming teams from universities across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

It's a unique event that provides an insight into the torts practice area.

QUT Torts Moot

International experience gives you a career edge, connections and lifelong memories. We support a host of opportunities, including:

• study abroad at a choice of more than 200 partners worldwide, including prestige partnerships for law in China, Canada, UK and Germany
• international work placements
• study tours
• international mooting and case competitions
• conferences and Model United Nations programs.

'Studying abroad has given me the opportunity to make several international connections with students and employers.

I was able to attend events with some of the world’s most respected law and finance firms, which I can continued a relationship with when returning home.'

Rebecca Colbrook

'Not only did we experience the culture and law of a country where progress is measured by Gross National Happiness, but I had the opportunity to make a difference beyond the general scope of the international placement.'

Harry Jobberns (4th from right), Bhutan National Assembly.

On returning home, Harry arranged sponsorship of digital recording machines for the National Assembly.

We understand that law students want to put what they are learning into practice. Our courses include a wide range of authentic assessment tasks that connect your learning and performance to work environments.

Whether it's writing a letter of advice to a client, engaging in dispute resolution in a role place or writing a report on changes to public policy, the assessment is part of your real-world learning experience.

This final year unit draws together all your legal knowledge and skills and equips you to respond to complex, real-world legal problems, so you'll hit the ground running in legal practice.

As a national leader in capstone legal study research, we've created a program that smooths your transition from student to professional.