Griffith University

Overview

When you study law at Griffith, you are studying among the world’s best. Griffith University ranks first in Australia for the area of Law in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023.

Canadian Law Students’ Association
Hosted at the Gold Coast campus, the Canadian Law Students’ Association is a small but active group. Past events include Thanksgiving dinner and a night at a hockey game. As a Griffith Law student, you’ll receive support and advice from the Canadian Law Student Association and enjoy regular mentoring meetings with Dean Therese Wilson. Ms. Wilson makes a point of keeping in regular contact with the Canadian cohort and catching up regularly with those who are interested.

Griffith Law School is ranked among the world’s top law schools and offers a dedicated graduate program for Canadian students pursuing a career in Australia or Canada.

Griffith offers a professional legal curriculum that focuses on core areas of legal practice and the legal skills that lawyers must have. You’ll have the opportunity to choose law electives based on your interests, including clinical courses that emphasize practical legal skills, insights, and experience.

Griffith Legal Clinic Program
The Griffith Legal Clinic Program offers one of the broadest range of clinics of any Australian law school. In fact, Griffith helped pioneer clinical legal education in Queensland, paving the way for legal placements to be included in law degrees. Griffith’s years of research and experience mean they understand the needs of their industry partners and their law students.

Griffith offers a diverse selection of clinics through collaborations with industry partners.

• Innocence Project
• Advanced Legal Writing
• Criminal Advocacy
• Culturally Principled Practice
• Advanced Family Law clinic
• Caxton General clinic
• Refugee Law and Policy clinic
• Social Justice Lawyering clinic
• Community Lawyering clinic
• Employment Law clinic
• Internship / Trimester in Practice
• Volunteering opportunities: e.g.,: My Community Legal, Bayside Community Legal

Canadian Law Students’ Association
Hosted at the Gold Coast campus, the Canadian Law Students’ Association is a small but active group. Past events include Thanksgiving dinner and a night at a hockey game. As a Griffith Law student, you’ll receive support and advice from the Canadian Law Student Association and enjoy regular mentoring meetings with Dean Therese Wilson. Ms. Wilson makes a point of keeping in regular contact with the Canadian cohort and catching up regularly with those who are interested.

International Mooting Experience
Each year, Griffith law students travel to either to Hong Kong or Vienna, to compete against teams from prestigious law schools across the globe in the International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Griffith teams are always top-ranked, and students competing in the competition have also won numerous awards at the competition year after year.

Moot Courts
Griffith Law School equips you to deal with contemporary issues with a perfect balance of legal theory and practice, right from the first year of study. The teaching facilities and moot courts provide law students with the opportunity to solve real legal problems in front of a judge and jury by engaging in a simulated court proceeding.

Griffith offers a range of flexible and innovative international field trips, study tours, and global internships that get you out of the classroom and into the field. Each year, law students compete for coveted spots on international mooting teams at annual competitions including the Phillip C Jessup Moot Court Competition and the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.