School of Law
I most warmly welcome you to La Trobe University Law School, one of six Schools within the Faculty of Law and Management.
The School is known for the achievements and quality of its graduates. We provide a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional development programs as well as programs designed for international students.
La Trobe Law 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.
La Trobe Law 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. In 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), international exposure (such as exchange and short-term study abroad programs), teaching informed by high quality scholarly research, and fostering of inter-personal skills.
Our highly qualified teaching staff are involved in international scholarly activities at the highest level, and research conducted by members of the School is distinguished by its strong commitment to access to justice and its interdisciplinary, global and comparative outlook. La Trobe Law also produces expert research that informs government policy and public interest advocacy across a broad range of areas and 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. We have entered into several LLM articulation arrangements with universities in China and Spain, and further articulation arrangements with other countries are currently under negotiation.
Professor Jianfu Chen
Head
School of Law
