Faculty of Business and Law

School of Law

Academic Awards

group shot of award winners


Each year the School of Law presents Academic Awards to acknowledge high achieving students. Winners are notified by mail in March and the Awards are presented at a function held in April. These awards are for the previous year of study.

Students are eligible for Academic Awards in the following units of study:

  • Supreme Court Prize
    for the top student completing the Deakin University Bachelor of Laws degree in the previous year.

  • Alan Missen Foundation Prize
    for the best student essay in Law, Society and Civil Rights.

  • Arnold Bloch Leibler Prize
    for the best Deakin University law student in Taxation.

  • Australian Institute of Administrative Law Prize
    for the best student essay in Administrative Law.
  • Blake Dawson Prize
    for the best student in Contract.

  • Clayton Utz Prize
    for the best student in Property.
    for the best student in Torts.

  • Coulter Roache Prize
    for the best student in Business Organisations.
    for the best student in Workplace Law.

  • Davies Collison Cave Solicitors Prize
    for the best student in Intellectual Property.

  • Geelong Law Association Prize
    for the best student in Constitutional Law.

  • Harwood Andrews Prize
    for the best student in Commercial Law.

  • Herbert Geer Prize
    for the best student in Competition Law and Policy.
    for the best student in Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts.
  • Kennedy Partners Prize
    for the best student in Family Law
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  • Monahan and Rowell Lawyers Prize
    for the best student in Health and Biotechnology Law.
    for the best student in Law Society and Civil Rights.

  • Moore Stephens Prize
    for the best student in Principles of Income Tax Law.

  • Taxpayers Australia Inc Eric Risstrom Prize
    for the best Burwood student in Administrative Law.

  • Thomson Reuters Prize
    for the best student in Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
    for the best student in Criminal Law.
    for the best student in Criminal Procedure.
    for the best student in Equity and Trusts.
    for the best student in International Law.
    for the best student in Land Law.
    for the best student in Legal Practice and Ethics.

  • Transport Accident Commission Prize
    for the best student in Administrative Law.

  • Victorian Society for Computers and the Law Prize
    for the best student in Law and the Internet.
    for the best student in Electronic Crime.

View the 2011 Academic Award winners.

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26th July 2012