best law university (1 Viewer)

[theism]

that allows you to do law by-itself instead of a combined degree?

ie. UNSW and USYD only allow for a 'combined' degree.

 

[04er]

Uts?

EDIT: damnit you beat me to it

 

[doink]

Harvard.

 

[agirlinatutu]

Anu?

 

[2tangy]

tafe

 

[theism]

sigh.
UTS's law and ANU is 4 years full time.
i might as well get a combined course, and do the 5 years. eh?

 

[Demandred]

Doesn't UTS and ANU have their 1 year prac legal training included? Really means the 5 year combined degree is really 6 years if you want to prac as a solicitor.

 

[Frigid]

Doesn't UTS and ANU have their 1 year prac legal training included? Really means the 5 year combined degree is really 6 years if you want to prac as a solicitor.

PLT is not 1 year long.

 

[neo o]

You get more law electives if you do straight law though. To be honest, if I had my time again I would have done a BA first and then a JD.

 

[Cookie182]

UOW offer it as a straight 4 year degree and it is well respected. My understanding is that you get more electives and the PLT is included in the 4th year.

However, my thoughts are that employers in law probably expect people to have 2 degrees, it broadens your knowledge at the very least.

 

[DTFM]

I think the LPAB diploma is only a few years if you want to consider that route.

 

[goan_crazy]

UTS
The PLT option will be beneficial to u.

 

[beentherdunthat]

yer uts...

 

[melsc]

UTS, ANU and UOW all have great law programs and are well regarded. That said all of those are 4 years so why not spend the extra year and come out with two pieces of paper.

Take it from someone who wanted to straight law when they were about your age, I have actually found combined law beneficial as:
1. Gives you a chance to study something different and has allowed me to explore a lot of things that I didn't know I was interested in at the time.
2. Gives you a break from law (sometimes law can drive you crazy)
3. Is good to ease you into uni, I can't imagine doing a full study load of law in first year, doing it last semester seemed tough enough and doing a bit of law and other stuff helpes ease you in when you are making the transition to uni.
4. Has just been interesting and gives me a sense of achievement
5. Gives you other options if you find you hate law (which I have seen happen)
6. Can (this depends on a variety of things and does not mean you are less so with a single degree) make you more employable.

 

[\/anessa]

UTS, ANU and UOW all have great law programs and are well regarded. That said all of those are 4 years so why not spend the extra year and come out with two pieces of paper.

Take it from someone who wanted to straight law when they were about your age, I have actually found combined law beneficial as:
1. Gives you a chance to study something different and has allowed me to explore a lot of things that I didn't know I was interested in at the time.
2. Gives you a break from law (sometimes law can drive you crazy)
3. Is good to ease you into uni, I can't imagine doing a full study load of law in first year, doing it last semester seemed tough enough and doing a bit of law and other stuff helpes ease you in when you are making the transition to uni.
4. Has just been interesting and gives me a sense of achievement
5. Gives you other options if you find you hate law (which I have seen happen)
6. Can (this depends on a variety of things and does not mean you are less so with a single degree) make you more employable.

Keep in mind that you need not completely pursue either degree. A double degree can be beneficial as abovementioned, but if for any reason, you are bored with/miserably failing and/or otherwise find the BA/BCom/BSc redundant, you can always revert to straight law.

Addendum: I am hating and borderline failing the non-law components of Commerce but striving desperately not to drop it, since prospective employers almost always demand dual qualifications.

 

[Cookie182]

Keep in mind that you need not completely pursue either degree. A double degree can be beneficial as abovementioned, but if for any reason, you are bored with/miserably failing and/or otherwise find the BA/BCom/BSc redundant, you can always revert to straight law.

Addendum: I am hating and borderline failing the non-law components of Commerce but striving desperately not to drop it, since prospective employers almost always demand dual qualifications.

Hey, wats your commerce major?

 

[\/anessa]

Hey, wats your commerce major?

lol venture a guess

It's not:
- Accounting [never set a foot in the Department of Accounting after getting away with a final mark of 50 for Introductory Accounting];
- Finance [ditto with the Finance department, although I achieved a slightly more commendable final mark of 53 for Introductory Finance];
- Economics [clueless at first but eventually picked up some basic concepts];
- Econometrics [not struggling as much since I come from a mathematics background];
- Management; nor
- Marketing.

 

[04er]

(sometimes law can drive you crazy)

I think that is a major understatement. I just finished a public law assignment and OH MY JESUS there is life afterwards!?

Only law can bring me to a state where I feel like lying down (whether it be on an infected toilet floor or the middle of a motorway) and dying a slow painful death.

Fuck law assignments give me the shits.



Anyway kiddies don't let me stop you from doing law. While it is mentally challenging, and may sometimes amount to mental rape, it can still be really fulfilling.

I'm just talking fresh off the back of two law assignments, worth 30 and 40% respectively.

/end rant.

 

[Cookie182]

lol venture a guess

It's not:
- Accounting [never set a foot in the Department of Accounting after getting away with a final mark of 50 for Introductory Accounting];
- Finance [ditto with the Finance department, although I achieved a slightly more commendable final mark of 53 for Introductory Finance];
- Economics [clueless at first but eventually picked up some basic concepts];
- Econometrics [not struggling as much since I come from a mathematics background];
- Management; nor
- Marketing.

hmm lol a guessing game

Ok..

well it wont be Bus. Law (since u cant do this, as your doing an LLB), it must be-

- Human Resources??

If not, PR or SCM (Supply Chain Management) although id bank on HR.

 

[rlmck]

B Aerospace Engineering Syd Uni
is anyone else putting this as their 1st prefence ? anyone