The Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business Information Systems offers students a course focused on commercial law with emphasis on intellectual property law. As the only double degree in Victoria with this specialisation, students learn about trade marks, patents and designs, copyright, the prohibition of misleading or deceptive conduct and competition law. The course also teaches students to be entrepreneurial thinkers and provides them with the skills and knowledge essential to business management and operations. Choose a major for Bachelor of Business Information Systems Business Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Management Course structure Successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Business Information Systems requires students to complete units of study to the value of 500 credit points. All units of study are valued at 12.5 credit points unless otherwise stated. Course learning outcomes The Bachelor of Laws focuses on commercial law with emphasis on intellectual property law. This equips graduates for careers in the new knowledge economy, which is strengthened by the combination with the Bachelor of Business Information Systems. This latter program focuses on technical and analytical skills to meet the growing demand for IS/IT professionals in the increasingly technology-driven environment of organisations. This double degree offers a new dimension for graduates to gain an understanding of technology and its organisational implications relevant to the practice of law in the new knowledge economy. The amalgamation of these two comprehensive degrees produces graduates with a good understanding of commercial law within the context of the technology-driven business environment. Upon successfully completing the Bachelor of Laws, students will be able to: describe and demonstrate the application of the fundamental areas of Australian law and the Australian legal system and of the principles and doctrines that underpin them describe and demonstrate the application of ethical and professional responsibility in the practice of the law and a commitment to the pursuit of justice analyse and evaluate the interdisciplinary contexts in which legal issues arise and the disciplines and policy considerations that influence the content and operation of the law describe and compare the international legal order and the law and legal systems of Australia’s major trading partners critically evaluate events or factual situations, identify the legal issues to which they give rise and develop and articulate appropriate and creative responses undertake and critically evaluate research from a variety of sources to make judgements to solve complex legal problems with intellectual independence demonstrate effective and persuasive communication capabilities with legal and non-legal audiences Upon successfully completing the Bachelor of Business Information Systems, students will be able to: define and integrate theoretical principles applicable to information systems/information technology and apply those principles in a range of practices systematically review and critically evaluate research from a variety of sources in order to make informed judgements on options for innovatively solving a range of problems that arise in information systems/information technology contexts