Graduate Diploma in Taxation Law

The UWA Law School is certified by the Australian Law School Standards.

• assess and understand the practical tax implications of a range of complex and specialist situations and transactions.
• prepare written reports involving a relevant tax analysis.
• conduct practical tax research.
• understand tax policy criteria and research tax policy issues.
• present findings orally and engage in practical debate in tax controversies.

Winthrop Professor Nolan Sharkey is a full-time academic in the Law School and also a Barrister and a member of Francis Burt Chambers. 

Professor Sharkey’s research builds on his work in law, accounting and sociology to provide both technical and cross disciplinary perspectives on law, government and society with a particular focus on taxation and international taxation.

He is a leading academic on international tax in Australia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. Furthermore, he is an appointed International Tax Expert for the United Nations, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Trust and Estates Practitioner (TEP).

The UWA Law School is ranked in the top 150 law schools in the world for Law and Legal Studies (QS 2023). You will join and contribute to 90 years of excellence: we were the first law school established in WA and the fifth oldest in Australia.

Our graduates include a Prime Minister, a Governor of Western Australia, State Ministers, Justices of the Supreme Court of WA, a Young Australian of the Year, Rhodes Scholars, and more.

While we have a long and proud history, we're also a closely-knit, creative and progressive Law School, fostering critical thought, ethical scholarship and practice, a deep connection to our Indigenous past and present, and supportive student culture based upon wellbeing and inclusion.

We understand that life is busy. That's why our postgraduate courses are designed so you can balance your work and studies. Our flexible postgraduate experience includes the opportunity to study part time, a range of units that are taught after hours, and the option to learn via intensive units. Ask our Student Central team for advice on choosing the right postgraduate route for you. Find out more here.

1. You'll learn from internationally recognised and award-winning taxation experts from academia and the profession.
2. You will gain specialist tax skills demanded by the main employers in the tax profession.
3. You will engage in intensive face-to-face learning with tax experts.

1. Your teachers have links to the highest levels of the profession. You'll receive face to face training in high-level tax courses - the only opportunity to do so in Western Australia.
2. You'll have the chance to study specialist international tax subjects - few other universities offer these units anywhere in the world.
3. Professor Nolan Sharkey and Professor Rick Krever are international leading tax scholars. Other staff such as Grant Wardell-Johnson (KPMG Australia) are industry leaders. Associate Professor Ian Murray is also a very highly-regarded resource tax scholar.

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