From joining legal practices around the world and shaping policy nationally, to becoming educators and starting up businesses to address global challenges, our law graduates go places. 

We caught up with six alumni to hearwhere their law degrees have taken them.

English is the language of instruction and assessment at UWA and you will need to meet theEnglish language requirements of the University to be eligible for a place.

This course has higher ELC requirements. Applicants presenting with the IELTS Academic require an overall score of at least 7.0 and no band less than 6.5. For more information visitELC requirements.

Originally from Canada,Dr Marilyn Bromberg graduated with a BBA (Honours) from the Schulich School of Business at York University, an LLB (Dist) from The University of Western Australia, a PhD from Murdoch University and a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching from The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus).

Alongside teaching in the unitsSocial Media and the Law,Professional Practice andProcedure, Marilyn works as a lawyer at the Fremantle Community Legal Centre and as a consultant in her research areas for legal organisations.

Postgraduate coursework degrees and combined (coursework and research) degrees comprise a number of units. Refer to the course structure for more information.

1. You can choose a specialised area or broaden your knowledge across a range of subjects including commercial law, government regulation, resources law, and a wide variety of public and private international law areas. 
2. You'll gain advanced reasoning skills, develop knowledge and research skills.  
3. You can enhance and update your existing legal qualifications. 
4. It’s all electives in law – you'll choose all the units to take! 

TheUWA Law School isranked in the top 150 law schools in the world for Law and Legal Studies (QS 2025). You will join and contribute to 90 years of excellence: we are the first law school established in WA and the fifth oldest in Australia.

Our graduates include a Prime Minister, a Governor of Western Australia, State Ministers, Justices of the Supreme Court of WA, a Young Australian of the Year, Rhodes Scholars, and more.

While we have a long and proud history, we're also a closely-knit, creative and progressive Law School, fostering critical thought, ethical scholarship and practice, a deep connection to our Indigenous past and present, and supportive student culture based upon wellbeing and inclusion.

"The course is well structured, and there is a significant research component in each unit, which I consider a great advantage. A Master of Laws at UWA will certainly help anyone to improve both their research and analytical skills as well as their critical thinking, which is essential for those working in the legal field."

Roney José da Silva, Master of Laws 2020