Information for new Law students

Congratulations on receiving an offer to study Law at Monash and welcome to the Faculty!

Course information

The information on this page is designed to assist you with planning your course and enrolling into units (Steps 2 and 3 of Get Started).

Depending on whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student will change how you select your units in which to enrol. To find your appropriate course map use the following links: Course Maps

You can also read about your course requirements in detail in the handbook.

How to enrol

In order to accept your offer to study at Monash you must enrol into units. All students enrol using the Web Enrolment System (WES).

If you are a domestic student, you need to enrol by the offer lapse date in your offer letter.

If you are an international student, you need to enrol by the enrolment date stated in your offer letter.

Enrolment for your course

Bachelor of Laws (single and double degrees)

Master of Laws

Juris Doctor

Graduate Certificate of Legal Systems and Services

Graduate Certificate of Legal Studies

Graduate Certificate of Laws

Graduate Diploma of Legal Studies

Graduate Diploma Laws

Graduate Diploma of Australian Law

Master of Legal Studies

Useful information

Postgraduate timetabling

The timetable for postgraduate students works a bit differently than for undergraduate students. Students taking core JD units*, will have to select preferences (using Allocate+) for specific streams in the upcoming trimester. The Allocate+ dates for each trimester are published on the postgraduate timetable page. If a student misses the preference entry window, they will be automatically allocated based on availability. Any requests to adjust streams must occur during the preference adjustment window.

*Core JD units are LAW5000, LAW5001, LAW5002, LAW5003, LAW5004, LAW5005, LAW5006, LAW5007, LAW5008, LAW5010, LAW5011, LAW5012, LAW5013, LAW5014, LAW5015 and LAW5018.

All other postgraduate law units only have one stream per unit, students must still select the stream in Allocate+, but there is no preference entry period or options for varying streams. The dates for these postgraduate law units are published on the relevant timetable page in September for the entire upcoming year.

Deferring an offer

You can defer a course offer for up to a maximum of one year from the original teaching period intake listed on your course offer letter.

To defer your course offer, complete the deferment application form and submit it via an online enquiry.

If you have already accepted your course offer and enrolled into units, it is still possible to defer the offer as long as withdraw from all units and lodge the request before the first withdrawn early end date for enrolled units in your course. You can withdraw from units using the Web Enrolment System (WES) or by sending us an enrolment amendment form. You must withdraw from units in WES or send us the request to withdraw before the first withdrawn early end date for your first unit. See discontinuation dates for undergraduate students and discontinuation dates for postgraduate Law students .

For more information on deferment, please refer to the defer your offer page.

Discontinuing units

If you discontinue a unit, there are important dates to keep in mind that will determine academic and financial penalties.

For undergraduate law students studying standard semester units, please refer to the census dates page.

For postgraduate law students, from 2025, all non-standard unit dates are published by the central university on one web page. You can find the Postgraduate Law and Juris Doctor units by using the search function on the new webpage linked below:

2025 Non-Standard unit discontinuation/census dates

Fees

To understand your course fees, please read through the fees information page.

To find out your course fees, you can use the course fee calculator.

Juris Doctor Students - Important information

Orientation

These orientation dates are tentative, confirmed dates and times will be sent out to JD students approximately a month before the start of each intake.

Trimester one 2025: Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Trimester two 2025: Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Trimester three 2025: Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Course start dates

Trimester one 2025: Monday, 6 January 2025

Trimester two 2025: Monday, 28 April 2025

Trimester three 2025: Monday, 25 August 2025

Scholarships

You can browse the Monash scholarships page to identify potential scholarships to apply for.

If you click on the 'Browse by:' drop down menu and select 'Law', you will bring up scholarships specifically relevant to the Faculty of Law.

There are two scholarships specifically administered by the Faculty of Law, these are:

Monash Juris Doctor Law Dean's Scholarship

Dodson Indigenous Juris Doctor Scholarship

Helpful links

Orientation information

Changing your enrolment

Study load guidelines

2024 Postgraduate Electives Timetable

Additional Information

Introduction to LAW1111 Foundation of law

Introduction to the Law Library