This is a program for graduates of a discipline other than law who wish to acquire a postgraduate law qualification.

The Government and Commercial Law program combines the ANU College of Law's strengths in commercial and public law. This program reflects important developments in the modern legal environment, as the public and private spheres of legal practice increasingly intersect.

Commercial law now touches most aspects of private business and public government, and public law is a field in which the ANU College of Law is nationally pre-eminent. The College's close links with government, the Parliament and its proximity to the High Court makes it an ideal place to study the intersection of commercial law and government. The program caters for non-lawyers in both the public and private sectors who have had relevant business experience and who need to acquire familiarity with legal issues.

 Program Requirements

The Graduate Diploma of Government and Commercial Law requires courses totalling 36 units, with at least 24 units from the Government and Commercial Law courses listed, including Introduction to Legal Reasoning and Research and Fundamentals of Government and Commercial Law.

Students are able to apply to transfer to the degree of Master of Government and Commercial Law, with status for all relevant work completed.

Summary of courses offered in the Graduate Diploma in Government and Commercial Law Program in 2009