Lawyers and judges will be involved in teaching and assessing your law assignments and will provide you with valuable feedback. This sort of contact with the profession will stand you in good stead when you come to apply for a full-time job.

At Waikato, you?ll get to practice skills you need to succeed in the profession ? whether it?s interviewing a client, making a case in court, negotiating settlement for a client, or drafting a required contract to perfect a merger.

You?ll analyse how law operates in local, national and global contexts and learn to consider the business practices of financial markets, corporations, national and local government, trusts and iwi.