The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia.

The total prize money each year is in excess of $10,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays. Every year the Competition is judged by a panel of distinguished individuals including a High Court Justice and prominent academics. The deadline for submissions is late June.

Lawyers Weekly presents the annual Australian Law Awards, which include a category for Law Student of the Year, recognising the academic, community and legal achievements of undergraduates. Nominees must be current law students or students who have graduated in the year of the awards. Submissions close in July.

$3,000 New Colombo Plan mobility grants are available to undergraduate students wishing to spend Summer 2018 studying in Indonesia on ACICIS Study Indonesia’s Law Professional Practicum (LPP).

LPP gives students a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience working in Indonesia’s legal industry. Students attend two weeks of academic tuition, including Indonesian language classes and a series of seminars and fieldtrips, prior to undertaking a four-week supervised practicum placement (internship) in an Indonesian legal workplace environment.  Academic credit toward your ANU degree is available to participants undertaking ACICIS’ Law Professional Practicum. Applications usually close in June.

The Anne Wexler Scholarship aims to grow Australian-American educational linkages by awarding an Australian graduate a scholarship to complete a full US Masters in Public Policy. Applications usually close in September each year.

The scholarship is designed for students who have a long term passion for strengthening Australia's economic relationship with China through their business or cultural pursuits. A typical candidate will be in their final year of studies (or have recently graduated) and have undertaken China-focused work experience or academic studies. The scholarship includes return flights to China, job placements, language training, a stipend, accommodation support and more. Applications usually open in February each year and close in July.

Aimed at junior career practitioners, one scholarship each year to the value of $5,000, offered by the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Applicants must submit a 10,000 word paper on a competition law topic, usually in early January each year.

Trinity College School of Law, Dublin, Ireland offers a scholarship each year for their LLM that covers the cost of full tuition for an academic year. Applications usually close at the end of May each year.

The PLSRS is open to postgraduate students and gives them the opportunity to work alongside specialist researchers in the Parliamentary Library in Canberra for a period of six weeks (January-February to produce a report on a topic of relevance to the Library’s research program. Applications close in September.

Upon successful completion of the scholarship, an honorarium of $1,800 is paid.

The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation and the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust (UK) offer postgraduate scholarships in law for tenure at a university in the United Kingdom. Applications usually close in August each year.