Top Law Schools in Australia

Australian National University

• The ANU College of Law was founded in 1960 and is ranked as the top Law School in Australia and seventeenth in the world according to the 2009 Times Higher Education Supplement University Rankings. The College welcomes international students from more than 30 countries and offers a range of courses at both graduate and postgraduate level. ANU LLB qualifications are recognised for admission to practice law in Australia as well as in Singapore, Malaysia and India. ANU has seven law specialist law centres including the Australian Centre for Environmental Law , the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture and the John Fleming Centre for Advancement of Legal Research.

  ANU College of Law
  The Australian National University
  Canberra
  ACT 0200
  011-612-6125-3483
  law.anu.edu.au

Sydney Law School

• According to the 2009 Times Higher Education Supplement University Rankings Sydney Law School was rated equal second and thirty-sixth in national and world rankings respectively. SLS welcomes international students devoting a dedicated Support Unit to aid oversees learners with any issues surrounding separation from family, friends and culture. The programs offered include LLB, LLM and postgraduate research courses. The School is associated with several institutes and centres, all of which are physically or notionally located in the faculty. These include the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, the Institute of Criminology
  and the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence.

  Sydney Law School
  Level 3
  Law School Building (F10)
  Eastern Avenue
  Camperdown Campus
  The University of Sydney
  NSW 2006
  011-612-9351-0351

Melbourne Law School

• University of Melbourne Law School welcomes international students offering a fully graduate JD law degree which allows admission to legal practice in Australia and some overseas areas. The JD is suitable for students holding a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a discipline other than law or from an overseas legal system. MLS also offers a range of postgraduate qualifications for which a JD is a pre-requisite for entry. The School is host to a number of institutions and centres with which it engages in research, seminars and conferences. These include the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies and the Centre for Islamic Law and Society. MLS is ranked equal second and thirty-sixth in national and world rankings respectively according to the 2009 Times Higher Education Supplement University Rankings.

  Melbourne Law School
  The University of Melbourne
  VICTORIA 3010
  Australia
  011-613-8344-6164
  law.unimelb.edu.au

TC Beirne School of Law

• The University of Queensland, TC Beirne School of Law began classes in 1936 and is ranked fourth best law school in Australia and forty-first in the world. The School offers LLB, LLM, Business and Applied Law courses. The Applied Law course consists of a suite of of programs taught intensively in four day or two day blocks aimed at professionals from a diverse range of industries including accounting, education, engineering, foreign affairs, industrial relations, management, medicine and others. TCBS has rationalized some of it's strengths into Research Centres and informal networks, these include the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, the Centre for Public International & Comparative Law and the Marine & Shipping Law Unit.

  TC Beirne School of Law
  Forgan Smith Building
  Level 3
  The University of Queensland
  St Lucia QLD 4072
  Australia
  011-617-3365-2206
  law.uq.edu.au