About the School

I most warmly welcome you to La Trobe Law School. We provide a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional development programs, as well as programs designed for international students.

La Trobe Law is known for the achievements and quality of our graduates and prides itself on having established and maintained a friendly environment that makes the study of law here a rewarding 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 and welcome them to join our Law Alumni Chapter.

La Trobe Law School is a law school of international standing. We believe that, in the contemporary world, it is important that law graduates have an understanding of legal issues from a global perspective. We further believe that skills in critical analysis, established solidly upon good legal knowledge and understanding, are what law graduates will need most in their future career development. While equipping students with the requisite skills and knowledge to practise law, we emphasise hands-on experiences such as clinical legal education, internship and placement programs and international exposure such as student exchange.

Our teaching is informed by high quality scholarly research, and fostering of inter-personal skills. Our highly qualified teaching staff are involved in international activities at the highest level, while research is distinguished by its strong commitment to access and justice and its global and comparative outlook. La Trobe Law produces expert research that informs government policy and public interest advocacy across a broad range of areas.

The school has maintained constructive relationships with professional and community bodies as well as local, State and Federal governments. We also host many visiting Scholars from Asia, America, Europe and other regions as part of our Global Business law and Public Interest Law post-graduate programs. Additionally we have several LLM articulation arrangements with universities abroad.