Concurrent Enrolment in the GDLP

If you have completed at least 75% of your LLB, JD or equivalent, you may be eligible to enrol concurrently in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

Benefits of Concurrent Enrolment

• Your understanding of how the law works will be enhanced by studying practice alongside substantive law.
  
  
• If you work at least one day a week in a legal environment you may be eligible to have your work credited towards the Legal Practice Experience  requirement for the GDLP.
  
  
• Future employers may find you more attractive as an employee if you have completed some practical courses whilst completing your law studies.
  
  
• After completing the Becoming a Practitioner Workshop you can:
  
  
  • apply to undertake LPE in the Legal Workshop's Legal Aid Clinical Program   in Canberra, or
    
    
  • submit an expression of interest to undertake LPE with a regional, rural or remote  Community Legal Centre as a part of Legal Workshop's project with the National Association of Community Legal Centres.
    

For more ideas about how extracurricular and practice related activities may enhance your studies see An Active Approach to Studying Law

Admission and concurrent enrolment

Please note that concurrently enrolled students seeking their first admission in Victoria must request dispensation from the Board of Examiners to study their practical legal training whilst completing their law degree or Juris Doctor. For further information please contact the Board on 03 9604 2451.

Approval for Concurrent Enrolment

Students must consider their overall workload and personal commitments in determining whether it is appropriate to apply for concurrent enrolment.

ANU Legal Workshop requires ANU students to obtain permission from the sub-dean to concurrently enrol in the GDLP.

ANU law students should complete and submit the application form  to the Sub-Dean, ANU College of Law. ANU Legal Workshop will not process an application until this written approval has been received

Students from other universities are not required to provide a letter from their Sub Dean or equivalent.

Concurrent enrolment in the LLM

In some circumstances students enrolled in the GDLP can apply to concurrently in the ANU Master of Laws (LLM) program. Take for this link  further information.