The degree with a "particular emphasis on rural and regional law" has created a stir with the phone and email of CSU's Professor of Jurisprudence Steve Redhead "running hot".

Western NSW residents have wanted to learn about the degree that can eliminate the expense and difficulty of living and studying in metropolitan cities.

"I've had people from Dubbo on the phone and email, even before the accreditation," Bathurst-based Professor Redhead told the Daily Liberal.

Professor Redhead established the degree that received accreditation by the Legal Profession Admission Board of NSW last week.

CSU has been one of only two Australian universities not to offer law.

A 2013 report by Emeritus Professor David Weisbrot, former Dean of Law at the University of Sydney, set CSU on the path to addressing what Professor Redhead called a "shortage of lawyers in the region" with a degree that was "innovative, rigorous and practical".

Subjects required to be completed for admission as an Australian legal practitioner were included in the CSU degree including Torts, criminal property and contract law.

"All subjects have been designed to be directly relevant to the priorities of rural and regional industry, providing students with knowledge of legal matters pertaining to agricultural and mining industries, environmental and cultural heritage protection laws, family law, dispute resolution, as well as issues of importance," Professor Redhead said.

"The Charles Sturt University law degree is designed to create change-makers, people who will be able to offer tangible skills to their communities while driving advocacy and improving access to legal representation."

Professor Redhead, who has headed up law schools in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, led a small team in designing the course with encouragement and positive input from NSW's regional law societies, law firms and the National Rural Law and Justice Alliance, Australia's first peak national non-government organisation for rural and remote law and justice.

"The metropolitan law schools are pretty full," Professor Redhead said. "I think the region can do with this."

The degree, with an entry ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) of "around 85", will be launched in March with an anticipated cohort of about 60 students, many of them studying part-time.

Professor Redhead said the degree would include residential schools and be undertaken "part-time in six years or full-time in three years and actually anything in between".

"Flexible learning is going to be the watchwords of the future and unis have to get on board that quickly," he said.