Schools within the Faculty
La Trobe Business School
Head of School: currently vacant
La Trobe Business School is committed to continual improvement in innovation, engagement and social responsibility through education and research.
With around 150 multicultural academic and professional and administrative staff, including an outstanding professoriate, the School offers a dynamic learning-focused environment that nurtures the development of our students to their full potential, fostering excellence in interdisciplinary research and teaching.
La Trobe Law School
Head of School: Professor Paula Baron
La Trobe Law School is a vibrant law school of international standing that produces high quality graduates well-prepared for professional life and service to the community. La Trobe graduates are notable for their sound legal knowledge, practical legal skills and their spirit of critical inquiry.
The School prides itself on having established and maintained a friendly environment that makes the study of law a rewarding and enriching experience. We see all our students as members of the School, we treat all our visitors as friends, and we endeavour to maintain a lifelong association with our past graduates.
La Trobe Law School provides its students with a rigorous but supportive teaching and learning environment. It promotes active and experiential learning, exemplified by its extensive and renowned clinical program, academic research opportunities, internationally-successful mooting program and the many international educational opportunities open to our students. We believe that in the contemporary world, it is important that law graduates have an understanding of legal issues from a global perspective. In addition to our range of international study opportunities for our undergraduates, we host many visiting scholars from Asia, America, Europe and other regions as part of our postgraduate programs and we have several LLM articulation arrangements with universities abroad.
La Trobe Law School's intellectual life is stimulating and progressive. The School produces high quality research and scholarship based in a deep history of socio-legal scholarship and interdisciplinary inquiry. It encourages scholarship that promotes access to justice and is relevant and beneficial to its academic, professional and broader communities. It has particular strengths in alternative dispute resolution, human rights law, refugee law, public interest law, and commercial law, both global and local.
In all its endeavours, La Trobe Law School values access to justice, peaceful resolution of conflict, service to community, tolerance and diversity. It holds high regard for its connections to and engagement with its alumni body, the legal profession, and public interest and human rights groups.
The School of Economics
The School of Economics has a proud history of quality teaching and research and is consistently ranked amongst the best in Australia.
Our strength is mainly in applied economics but particularly in business cycles, climate change and environmental economics, economics of education, innovation, international economics and trade. We aim to undertake research of the highest quality and to bring the understanding and excitement from the latest state-of-the-art research into our teaching throughout our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Our courses provide students with a range of highly prized transferable skills enabling them to stand out in an increasingly competitive world.
One of the many features of our undergraduate and postgraduate courses is the flexibility and choice they offer. The School of Economics is the first one in Australia to offer a Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree (PPE). This is a prestigious multidisciplinary programme combining three important disciplines to provide an understanding of contemporary issues and policies. In addition, our other courses offer students the opportunity to specialise in a multitude of economics and policy areas. As a result, our graduates are well-rounded, professionally trained, and keenly sought after by employers. We invite you to explore the School’s website to get more information about our teaching and research activities.