Griffith University Law School

Griffith Law School

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Parent institution	Griffith University
Dean	Professor Penelope Mathew
Location	Brisbane and Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Website	Official website

The Griffith Law School is a school of Griffith University. The School is spread across three campuses throughout Queensland, Brisbane (Nathan & South Bank Campuses) and the Gold Coast Campus. The Griffith Law School is noted for maintaining a culture of social justice.

The Griffith Law School provides an interdisciplinary legal education. Undergraduate degrees are generally taught as combined degrees with other disciplines within the university; however, the option to do a stand-alone (LLB only) law degree is also available.

Undergraduate (including graduate-entry LLB) degree programs are taught from the Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Postgraduate research programs (PhD and MPhil) are oriented toward the investigation of law in theoretical and socio-legal context; these programs also are taught at the Nathan or Gold Coast campuses.

The law school has a diverse range of clinical opportunities ensuring that students graduate with practical legal skills. These include the Griffith University Innocence Project and Semester-In-Practice.

Professor Penelope Mathew is currently the Dean of the Law School. Over 40 other lecturers and professors work full-time for the law school. A number of adjunct lectures from the legal practice community also periodically teach at the law school.

A significant number of law academics have received their doctorates in law from the Griffith Law School. Among these legal academics who received their PhD in law from the Griffith Law School include:

The Australian government ranks Griffith Law School among the top law schools for quality in research. The Australian Research Council's 'Excellence in Research for Australia' initiative (ERA) ranked Griffith Law School among the top eight law schools in Australia. With a 4/5 score, it ties with law schools at University of Queensland, Monash, University of Sydney, UNSW and Adelaide, and is just below the University of Melbourne and ANU, both of which scored 5/5. The ERA Ranking places Griffith and UQ Law at the top of Queensland law schools, ahead of QUT (3/5), Bond (2/5) and USQ (2/5). The Australian Research Council also gave a rare A* (highest level) Australian Research Council ranking to the School's flagship research journal, the Griffith Law Review, placing it among the top six of Australian law schools.