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The Taxation major, part of the Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce double degree, offers a comprehensive legal education with a focus on commercial awareness and industry connections. Students gain practical experience at Curtin's city campus, completing the equivalent of four years of study in three years.
The Taxation major is offered as part of the Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce double degree.
Curtin's Bachelor of Laws offers a rich and professionally relevant coverage of foundational areas of legal knowledge as well as developing the core skills essential to effective legal practice. It will give you a professional legal qualification allowing you admission to practise as a lawyer, including the giving of legal advice and appearing in court. It will also give you a strong commercial awareness and the opportunity to focus on industry.
When paired with the taxation major this course is strongly commercially focused, and has an emphasis on industry connectedness and innovative teaching, with students being exposed from early in their studies to the culture, community and ethics of tax and legal practice. In their second and third years of study, students will study in trimesters, enabling them to complete 300 credits in each year. Overall, students can complete the equivalent of 4 years of academic study in three calendar years.
Students will gain practical legal experience at our state of the art city campus at 57 Murray Street, complete with digital moot court and John Curtin Law Clinic, near the District Court and in the heart of Perth's legal precinct. The course can only be completed internally.