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 also 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 study within a number of special subject areas called 'vertical subjects'. These subjects allow and encourage students to make connections between the discipline of law and the areas of ethics, legal theory, Indigenous issues, and internationalization. Through the study of these and other areas, the curriculum encourages interdisciplinary understandings of law and legal work. Graduates in law and commerce have valuable qualifications and skills that are very highly regarded by employers in both the private and public sectors. The combined nature of the program ensures that students need to develop a sound understanding of both disciplines, and the complex relationship between legal and commercial business practices, specific to the award major in chosen area.