Page 6 - About The College of Law Asia (March 2017)

UNIQUE PRACTICE-BASED

MASTER’S LEVEL

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

The College has built an extensive range of The College of Law is a postgraduate school of
programmes across four jurisdictional streams: professional practice for lawyers. The College
complements university law schools by bridging the gap
ASEAN Malaysia
between an academic law degree and legal practice.
Australia New Zealand
Studying for a postgraduate qualification at The
To assist career specialisation we cover 11 College of Law is more than acquiring the knowledge
practice areas: and skills needed for practice.

Administrative Litigation The College designs and delivers its courses in a way
that promotes the acquisition of graduate attributes COMMITTED TO LOCAL LAWYERS
Business Practice Management
that distinguish College graduates from other
Community Professional Skills providers and help make them more attractive to Headquartered in Sydney, the College has campuses in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane,
employers and to clients.
Criminal Property Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Wellington.
Employment Wills & Estates As an Applied Law institution, the three qualities we
aim to encourage in our graduates are to be: We also run onsite programmes in Apia (Samoa), Cairns, Canberra, Christchurch, Darwin, Dunedin, Hamilton,
Family London, Gold Coast and Townsville. The College is the only provider of postgraduate law programmes with
Professional in who we are locations in all the major cities of Australia and New Zealand.
Effective in how we work The College works closely with the legal professional bodies and the statutory admitting authorities across
Practical in what we achieve eight jurisdictions in Australia and New Zealand. We also collaborate with Bar Council Malaysia through a
Memorandum of Understanding.

We also work closely with the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Continuing Legal
OUR TEACHING METHODS Education Association of Australasia for CPD Professionals (CLEAA).

The College is actively involved with the international legal profession organisations operating in our region -
We use well-structured courses with: We use experienced practitioners as: LawAsia, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and the International Bar Association (IBA).

Practical learning-by-doing teaching methods Curriculum advisors
Practical real-world activities and tasks Subject matter experts SUPPORTING THE PROFESSION
Individual feedback on student work Lecturers and mentors
Practical task-based assessments Academic leaders THROUGH CONTINUING You can tell

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT lawyers that have
done the course
RECOG NISED BY AUSTRALIA’S TERTIARY The College runs a range of short programmes to meet the continuing professional as they practise
at a completely
EDUCATION AND QUALITY STANDARDS AGENCY development (CPD) requirements of legal professionals. Our CPD programmes different level.
include on-demand online seminars, webinars and face-to-face seminars,
workshops and multi-day conferences. Our CPD programmes aim to enable – MASTER OF
lawyers to acquire new skills and knowledge to help build their practice or career. APPLIED LAW
The College is a Self-Accrediting Authority recognised by the Commonwealth of Australia’s Tertiary Education and
Quality Standards Agency. This means the College has achieved, within its specialist areas of law, the academic The College delivers practice management courses to meet the requirements of legal (FAMILY LAW)
standards, governance and quality equivalent to that of an Australian university. profession regulators in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia - who GRADUATE

prescribe such courses as a pre-requisite for lawyers to practice as a principal. The
In New Zealand, the College is accredited by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, which rates the College
Highly Confident in its educational performance. This is the highest attainable level. College is developing a similar course, on behalf of the Law Society of Hong Kong, to
facilitate its introduction of a similar requirement in Hong Kong.