FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

The Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong was established in 1990.

The Faculty has attracted highly qualified staff from Universities in Australia and overseas and from the practice of law. It has Centres for Natural Resources Law and Policy, Maritime Policy and the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention in which a number of specialist courses and subjects have been developed. The Faculty has also established a reputation for innovative research.

A range of postgraduate programs are offered by the Faculty including Masters and Doctorates by research and a coursework LLM (International and Comparative) for international students.

The undergraduate law degree courses leading to the LLB and the sequence of subjects in Legal Studies seek to develop the capacity of students to learn on their own. This is consistent with the University's emphasis on teaching as the creation of an environment which assists learning. Students who study law at Wollongong will learn law, rather than be taught law. This may not always be easy - nor may it be what students expect.