LLB and JD? Other law degrees?
Im from the States and want to study law.
I was thinking about trying to get myself into an Ivy League school or a place like Oxford Uni or Cambridge.
I know that in the US you need to have a JD to practice law but a US citizen who studies Law abroad..do they still need to take the test?
Also, if the LLB and JD are the same thing then you wouldn’t need to take extra classes to take your JD right?
Can someone also tell me what is the order of the degrees?
Is it like LLM first or something? ive been on wikipedia and getting all confused.
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In the UK, you would get the LLB first and then, if you wanted to, you would go on for the LLM. In the US, the JD is the basic law degree and then you would go for an LLM if you needed one (but very few people go on for an LLM).
Keep in mind that while the US legal system was originally based on the British system, the two have diverged considerably (and since the law is based on precedent, we are talking about two completely different sets of precedents), so you would be studying very different things in the two countries. If you got an LLB you would not be prepared to practice law in the U.S., and if you got a JD, you would not be prepared to practice law in the UK. In both cases, you would have to do further study (usually the other degree) and take the qualifying exam (in the US, that would be the Bar exam for the state in which you were going to practice) before you could practice.