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 student’s 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 study 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.