OURSCHOOLS Newcastle Business School
Newcastle Law School
Newcastle Business School, within the Faculty of Business and Law, provides a multi-disciplinary environment, with opportunities for research in all major areas of business. We engage in research that makes a difference by expanding knowledge and by having an impact on the professions, business and government in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. In doing so, our goal is to improve business practices, foster equity, and contribute to human social and economic progress.
Focusing on ‘lawyering skills’, the Newcastle Law School is an internationally recognised law school, combining academic excellence and practical, hands-on training. Our Professional Program pioneered the integration of experiential learning and skills training within the conventional Bachelor of Laws curriculum.
Academic staff in the School have diverse backgrounds, wideranging professional experience, strong research records, and excellent experience in supervising research students. They are committed to creating, ensuring and promoting an unmatched research environment, which is reflected in an impressive output of research books, journal articles and professional publications. Over the years, Newcastle Business School and our individual staff members have built research links with prestigious universities in Asia, North America, and Europe. Research higher degree studies are supported in the following discipline areas: • business policy and strategy • international business • innovation and entrepreneurship • organisational behaviour, performance and sustainability • general management • supply chain management • accounting • finance • economics • politics • employment relations • human resource management • marketing • leisure • tourism Interdisciplinary programs are also available.
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As a result, graduates of the Diploma of Legal Practice are immediately eligible to apply for admission as legal practitioners in Australia, without further training. Research higher degree studies within the Newcastle Law School are available in the following discipline areas: • child law • contract law • criminal law and sentencing • environmental law and international environmental law • equal opportunity law • family law • human rights law and international human rights law • labour relations law and international labour relations law • legal profession • occupational health and safety law • tort law