Griffith Law School offers a professional legal curriculum that focuses on the core areas of legal practice together with legal skills that lawyers must have. This course provides students with opportunities to choose law electives that are aligned with own particular interests, including clinical courses that emphasize practical legal skills, insights and experience. Students can also take advantage of study abroad opportunities and gain credit towards Griffith degree for approved courses taken at international universities. Students will also simultaneously study within a number of special subject areas called `vertical subjects'. Through the study of these and other areas, the curriculum encourages interdisciplinary understandings of law and legal work.