About the Melbourne Law School Clinics

When you study at Melbourne Law school, you’ll be studying with the best. After all, Melbourne is ranked the #1 law school in Australia and #8 in the world*.

The Melbourne Law School Clinics is the hub for clinical legal education and public interest law at the school. Through the clinics program, you’ll work with real clients to solve real legal problems. These clinical subjects allow you to hone your legal skills while providing the community with much-needed resources for public-interest law causes.

Clinics and internships are an opportunity to experience the law in action. Informed by your work in the clinic, you’ll consider whether existing laws, processes, and institutions meet the aims of the justice system, and identify and work toward needed reforms.

Melbourne Law School Clinics

Climate Resilience Clinic
Provides you with the opportunity to work with communities to prepare you for and assist them in the aftermath of climatic events. You’ll develop the practical legal skills and theoretical understandings required to become lawyer who understands the breadth of law relevant to climate change, and capable of using the law for the benefit of communities that are affected by climate change.

Indigenous Legal Advocacy Clinic
Engages with current law and policy issues impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. You’ll work in small groups in partnership with an Aboriginal legal service or related body on an issue of law or justice identified by the partner organization. Clinical projects may include legislative submissions, amicus briefs, and law and policy analysis.

Legal Internship
The aim of this subject is to provide you with the opportunity to gain practical legal skills and undertake a public interest or community-focused legal workplace experience that complements and deepens your coursework learning in the Melbourne JD.

MLS Tax Clinic
The MLS Tax Clinic provides you with the opportunity to undertake advice and representation work for vulnerable taxpayers, either individually or clients as part of Not-For-Profit organizations, government institutions, or small businesses.

Law and the Environment Lab
This subject gives you a practice-focused opportunity to explore how the law influences the environmental and related social issues associated with infrastructure projects, from finance to operation.

Public Interest Law Clinic
You will support lawyers in public interest law organizations one day a week over the course of the semester, directly assisting in the delivery of legal services to clients. Partners have included JobWatch, Refugee Legal, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre, Victoria Legal Aid.

Stateless Legal Clinic
Offers you the opportunity to develop your practical legal skills while making a real difference to the lives of stateless adults and children living in the Australian community. In this clinic, you will support lawyers working with stateless clients to provide direct assistance to stateless children and adults, in a range of matters.

Street Law
You will collaborate closely with community organizations to identify, design and develop one or more Community Legal Education presentations or resources that they will present to the chosen audience or community partner.

*Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject, 2026

About the Melbourne Juris Doctor

The Melbourne JD is designed for students with an undergraduate degree in a discipline other than law. Melbourne Law School aims to produce intellectually engaged graduates who are well equipped to use their legal training in a variety of professional settings, including legal practice and in their contribution to the community.

Program: Juris Doctor
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Intake: January/February
Duration: 2.5 – 3 years
Application Deadline: Offers are made throughout the year based on academic merit and subject to availability in the program. You’re encouraged to apply as early as possible.

Get started on your Melbourne Juris Doctor application!

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