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Curtin Law School offers a transformative legal education. Our courses are professionally focused, incorporate contemporary global perspectives, and emphasise ethical standards within a deep understanding of the Rule of Law.

Our courses

Our courses are designed to prepare students for a career in law, taxation or business, and aim to develop practical work-ready skills alongside deep discipline knowledge and analytical techniques.

Choose from a range of courses:

Industry connections

The Curtin Law School is fortunate to be richly endowed with industry and professional connections. Our Advisory Board members, including the Hon Chief Justice Peter Quinlan SC, share their knowledge and experience to help shape course content, create learning opportunities and ensure your course remains relevant to the legal profession. Curtin Law School follows the same industry-connected ethos of Curtin Business School, drawing on deep industry connections to create real-world learning opportunities for our law students.

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City campus

Curtin University has a Law School campus in Perth’s Central Business District within an existing 1912 heritage listed building located at 57 Murray Street.

Advisory Board

Our school advisory board helps shape our courses and research for the benefit of students and industry alike.

Our people

Contact information for Curtin Law School staff.

Our clinics

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John Curtin Law Clinic

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Curtin Tax Clinic

The John Curtin Law Clinic aims to enhance the education of Curtin law students and improve access to justice through supervised professional experience. The Law Clinic offers services to eligible clients in a clinical legal education environment.

The Curtin Tax Clinic (CTC) aims to assist unrepresented taxpayers in meeting or complying with their taxation affairs. The CTC is the first clinic of its kind in Australia offering students, under the supervision of experienced tax practitioners, the opportunity to engage in case work directly relevant to their chosen career in taxation.

Research and disciplines

Information Governance

Information Governance

Taxation

Taxation

Human Rights

Human Rights

Clinical Research

Clinical Research
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Information Governance

Regulations and restrictions on the flow of information have an impact on individuals, businesses and society as a whole. Information Governance research at Curtin Law School encompasses several areas of law, including intellectual property, privacy, data protection, communications regulation, corporate governance, competition law and digital finance.

For example, our researchers have considered:

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Taxation

Our team of tax researchers aims to be at the forefront of current state, national and international tax discussions. We are committed to delivering high quality research across a range of tax and transfer topics through policy and legal analysis. We engage with the profession and regulators to apply and assist with our research. We conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary research.

Our research networks include experts and colleagues in taxation law, accounting, economics, policy and technology. We are equipped with substantial practical and academic experiences and produce innovative solutions to current taxation problems.

Current tax research projects include:

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*Available for higher degree by research (HDR) supervision, including doctoral (PhD) programs. We have supervised PhDs in International Taxation, Tax Compliance, Tax Policy and Commercial Law.

Human Rights

Our researchers have explored both practical and theoretical dimensions of human rights law. Many of us collaborate with leading human rights scholars and practitioners in Australia and globally, and our work has influenced human rights law and policymaking across a range of fields. From refugee rights to that of Indigenous people to the most marginalised communities in the world – our researchers have highlighted the role of human rights to remake a better world through research, advocacy, and discussion – including at the annual CLS Human Rights Day Symposium each December.

Our researchers have addressed and advocated on topics such as:

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Clinical Research

Curtin Law School’s Clinical and Professional Programs integrate the academic study of law and taxation with real-world clinical practice, connecting law and tax undergraduate and postgraduate students to industry and community through the John Curtin Law Clinic and the Curtin Tax Clinic.

The John Curtin Law Clinic enhances the education of law students and improves access to justice by offering services relating to small business disputes, human rights and discrimination law and social enterprise to eligible clients in a supervised clinical legal education environment. The John Curtin Law Clinic also works on law reform projects and submissions, for example the campaigns for reform of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) and for a human rights act in Western Australia.

The Curtin Tax Clinic, as the first of its kind in Australia, offers students the opportunity to engage in case work directly relevant to their chosen career in taxation while also providing taxation advice and support to the community. The Curtin Tax Clinic has developed specialised community outreach programs including The Prisons Project and the Micro-Enterprise Stream, empowering individuals to make positive contributions to society through financial independence.

Complemented by Work Integrated Learning opportunities through Legal Internships and Legal Work Experience, support of the interdisciplinary Curtin Link service and our special relationship with the Independent Bar at Murray Chambers, Curtin Law School’s Clinical and Professional Programs provide an effective platform for clinical research.

This is because issues identified in the course of real-world case work can, through collaborative research of students, academics and practitioners, be developed into clinical research outputs, including:

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