Graduate Diploma in Business Law

If you need to acquire specialist legal expertise in commercial, corporate and taxation law, then the new Graduate Diploma in Business Law can meet your professional and academic requirements.

Designed for lawyers as well as non-lawyers, it underscores the rising significance of legal knowledge and business law proficiency among professionals in the business, finance, commercial and corporate worlds.

You can select from over 70 units of study, one of the largest collections for a single degree within the University of Sydney Law School's postgraduate program.You can start off with a number of fundamental or introductory units of study, suitable if you have no prior legal knowledge, providing you with an effective springboard to more complex units.

You can also tailor the sequencing of these units to your particular needs, as well to your preferred knowledge and experience.

In terms of content, you have the opportunity to undertake rigorous and challenging specialist units relevant to domestic and international tax, commercial contracts, banking and finance, insolvency, trusts, secured transactions, investment, arbitration, competition law and international transactions.You can experience delivery of these units in weekly evening classes during semester and, throughout the year, on an intensive basis over four or five days.

Intensive units are especially popular and provide an excellent opportunity to experience teaching by international visitors and give you the chance to benefit from a scholastic atmosphere away from the demands of your day to day professional life.

Admission requirement

Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. Admission to the course requires a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney; or an equivalent qualification.

What you'll study