Juris Doctor

The Juris Doctor is a three-year, Masters level law degree designed for those who have already completed a Bachelor's degree in another discipline. Delivered online, the Juris Doctor enables student flexibility in pursuing a law degree using the latest education technologies to keep you connected and engaged. With an emphasis on practical legal problem-solving and problem prevention, the Juris Doctor will ground legal education in the broader social, historical, and economic context and support students' development as socially responsible and ethical professionals.

Featuring small class sizes and highly qualified and experienced staff, students will:

• Develop their advocacy abilities and a wide range of professional legal skills.
• Through UC's close connections with industry, the legal profession, and community partners, students will have the opportunity to build their professional network and apply their talents in the real world by completing a law internship or research project.
• Students can also tailor their individual program of study by selecting from a variety of electives from different areas of law with a particular focus on technology, innovation, and dispute resolution.

Delivery mode

This course is available in the following study modes:

Entry Requirements

Course fees

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About University of Canberra

As a university anchored in Australia’s capital, we work with government, business and industry to serve our communities and nation, and to be the capital’s educational window to the world. From this vantage point, we challenge the status quo in a relentless pursuit of original and better ways to teach, learn, research and add value – locally and internationally.

Our long-standing excellence in mission-oriented research will be fostered and, together with a renewed emphasis on entrepreneurship, will be woven inextricably into the University’s educational experience.

Through a transformative campus development plan, the University will evolve into a distinctive community for lifelong learning, and serve as a beacon of sustainable, smart and connected living.

We will lead the sector nationally in equity, diversity, inclusion and access.