UNSW Law instills in students the understandings, values, skills and qualities necessary to become highly qualified professionals with a strong sense of citizenship, community and social justice.

Knowledge
Graduates of UNSW Law will understand and appreciate:

1. Legal knowledge in its broader contexts
2. Indigenous legal issues
3. Principles of justice and the rule of law

Analytical Skills
Graduates of UNSW Law will have developed the skills of:

4. Statutory interpretation and analysis
5. Legal reasoning
6. Legal research and writing
7. Reform-oriented analysis of law and policy
8. Application of interdisciplinary perspectives to legal issues

Professional Skills
Graduates of UNSW Law are professionals who will have:

9. Communication skills
10. Interpersonal skills
11. Professional and ethical dispositions and values
12. Capacities for self-management

Honours-level Research Skills
In addition, graduates of the LLB (Honours) will have:

13. Research skills, demonstrated through the planning and execution of a piece of research or a professional project with some independence.

Total 144 UOC

Law Approved Sequence

There is no assumed knowledge requirement for entry to Faculty of Law courses but students must study law courses in an approved sequence. Other sequences may be approved in special circumstances.

Compulsory Courses (Total Units - 96 UOC)

Prescribed Electives (Total Units - 6 UOC from one of the following)

Free Electives

All Free Electives must be taken from an approved list of LAWS courses. Approximately 25-30 electives are made available each session. The number of students that may take an elective may be limited. Please refer to the list in Program 4701 LLB.

1. Application to LLB (Honours) program

1.1 UNSW LLB students are eligible to transfer to the LLB (Honours) program if, at the time of making their application, they:
a) have successfully completed a minimum of 96 UOC of LLB courses;
b) have successfully completed at least 84 UOC of core LLB courses (which can include the prescribed elective);
c) have a minimum of 12 UOC of LLB courses still to complete at UNSW; and
d) have a WAM in their core LLB courses (including the prescribed elective, if applicable) of 75 or above.

1.2 Students entering the LLB (Honours) will be given full credit for all LLB courses completed.

2. Honours requirements

2.1 LLB (Honours) students must complete a supervised 6 UOC LAWS course called ‘Honours Research Thesis’. The research thesis will be of 10,000 words. It will be double marked. As part of the ‘Honours Research Thesis’, students need to complete a mandatory Research Methods and Skills Workshop. The workshop will equip the students with the skills necessary to become researchers and successfully complete their thesis. The supervisor of the student with the approval of the Honours and Legal Research and Writing Coordinator may exempt the student from completing the workshop if the supervisor believes that the student has the necessary skills to conduct the required research or there are other exceptional grounds for excusing the student.

2.2 All remaining courses that an LLB (Honours) student needs to complete his or her 144 UOC of study are to be taken from the core and prescribed elective courses required to be completed as part of the LLB program (if these have not already been completed), and from the list of elective courses available to LLB students.

3. Classes of Honours, and enrolment requirements

3.1 Classes of Honours are to be based on an ‘Honours WAM’. This will be calculated using the WAM from all non-Honours, graded LLB courses taken at UNSW as 75% of the Honours WAM, and the WAM from the Honours Research Thesis as 25% of the Honours WAM.

3.2 Classes of Honours are to be awarded as follows:

Class 1: Honours WAM of 80.00 or greater
Class 2: Honours WAM between 75.00 and 79.99
Class 3: Honours WAM below 75

3.3 On completion of all LLB (Honours) course requirements, students whose Honours WAMs have fallen below 75 will be given the option of transferring back to the pass-level LLB program and graduating with an LLB.

4.Medallist Requirements

4.1 One student from each graduating cohort of students enrolled in programs 4701 and 4702 will be recommended for the University Medal, with up to two Medals awarded each year. This student is expected to have maintained Good Standing throughout their UG career (ie, while undertaking their LLB and, if applicable, LLB (Honours)). Students will be compared with others in their cohort (that is, both 4701 and 4702 students will be compared) across a number of categories to identify the best/top student based on each category. These categories of comparison include:

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