Study the Juris Doctor at RMIT University

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VISUAL: David MejiaCanales speaking to the camera. A caption reads: “David Mejia Canales Juris Doctor”.

David MejiaCanales: My name’s David Mejia Canales. I studied the Juris Doctor, here, at RMIT and I guess I describe myself as really bloody committed.

VISUAL: Video close-up of David MejiaCanales’ hands as he sits at a table and writes on a notebook. He moves a calculator closing to him as he works.

David MejiaCanales: A Juris Doctor is a postgraduate ...

VISUAL: Video of David MejiaCanales sitting at a table looking down at his paperwork.

David MejiaCanales: ... law degree, essentially.

VISUAL: Video close-up of David MejiaCanales’ hands as he sits at a table and writes on a notebook.

David MejiaCanales: So Juris ...

VISUAL: Side-on of David MejiaCanales sitting at a boardroom table writing.

David MejiaCanales: ... Doctor comes from the ...

VISUAL: David Mejia Canales speaking to the camera.

David MejiaCanales: ... American Juris Doctor degree and to implement it here, it’s essentially you study an undergraduate in anything that isn’t law; the Juris Doctor just complements what you’ve studied so you can become a lawyer.

VISUAL: Video of David MejiaCanales talking on his smartphone on rooftop at RMIT and smiling. City buildings are in the background.

David MejiaCanales: I’ve always wanted to study Law. I just took a very roundabout way of doing that...

VISUAL: David MejiaCanales speaking to the camera.

David MejiaCanales: ...I studied Arts elsewhere and then, essentially, the degree found me. I got an email notification saying that there was this new Juris Doctor program that was opening at RMIT and if I was interested to apply. So I did and the rest is history ...

VISUAL: Video close-up of a female handing an envelope to David MejiaCanales which David begins to open.

David MejiaCanales: ...I was taken in. The degree’s still relatively new.

VISUAL: Video close-up of David MejiaCanales as he looks down at something offscreen, probably the contents of the envelope.

David MejiaCanales: I was very happy to be accepted ...

VISUAL: Video close-up of David’s hands as he holds the letter inside the envelope open so that he can read it.

David MejiaCanales: ...finally into Law.

VISUAL: David Mejia Canales speaking to the camera.

David MejiaCanales: The best thing about studying the Juris Doctor, here, at RMIT is probably the absolutely challenge of it. I mean it was very, very difficult; like any law degree is difficult. But it was an enjoyable challenge because it was all new material and trying to get your head around ...

VISUAL: Video closeup of five students in a classroom with their backs to the camera sitting at desks with computer screen and looking at an overhead screen with an image on it.

David MejiaCanales: ... all that was really ...

VISUAL: Video of students sitting in a large lecture theatre looking at an overhead screen, the lecturer is standing at the lectern below the screen. The camera is at the back of the room looking down on the theatre.

David MejiaCanales: ... really enjoyable....

VISUAL: David MejiaCanales speaking to the camera, smiling as he says that he’ll be five years older.

David MejiaCanales: ... Well, in five years’ time I’ll probably be five years older; I know that for a certainty but I hope to have established myself in the legal profession. I’d like to be making inroads to head off into the Victorian Bar to work as a barrister; I think that’s my ultimate aim. But whatever it is that I’m doing ...

VISUAL: David MejiaCanales standing on the RMIT rooftop and leaning against the wall with arms folded and smiling at the camera.

David MejiaCanales: ... I really do hope that I enjoy it.

VISUAL: RMIT University logo and www.rmit.edu.au.

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