A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education. The Texas Tech University School of Law is an ABA -accredited law school located on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas. Texas Tech University is a public, coeducational research university in Lubbock Texas. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end either related to law

Contents 1 Post-graduate law degrees 2 Controversies 3 Alternative legal education systems 4 List of law schools 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

Post-graduate law degrees

Law schools in Canada, Australia, and the United States typically require three years of study after completing an undergraduate degree. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the Orbit of the Earth around the Sun Programs which offer part-time study or joint-degree programs may last four or more years such as the joint BA/LL. B or BA/JD programs in Australia. Upon graduation from law school, students are awarded a professional degree, the Juris Doctor (J. A first professional degree is a type of Academic degree designed to prepare the holder for a particular profession by emphasizing practical skills over theory and analysis Juris Doctor (abbreviated JD or JD, from the Latin, Teacher of Law) is a first professional graduate degree and Professional D. ) or Doctor of Law degree in the U. S. or the Bachelor of Laws (LL. The Bachelor of Laws (abbreviated LLB, LLB or rarely LlB) is an undergraduate or bachelor degree in law offered in most Common law B. ; or, from the University of Toronto and Queen's University, a J. This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus Queen's University, generally referred to simply as Queen's, is a coeducational non-sectarian Public university located in Kingston, Ontario D. ) in Common law Canada and Bachelor of Civil Law (B. C. L) in Civil Law Canada (Quebec) and some schools in Louisiana. While rarely obtained, the academic doctoral degree in law (equivalent to a Ph. A doctorate is an Academic degree that indicates the highest level of academic achievement D. in other fields) is the Doctor of Juridical Science (S. Doctor of Laws ( Latin: Legum Doctor, LLD) is a Doctorate -level Academic degree in Law. J. D. ) in the U. S. or the Doctorate of Laws (LL. D. ) in Canada. Some U. S. and Canadian schools also offer a Master of Laws (LL. The Master of Laws is an advanced Academic degree, or research degree and is commonly abbreviated LL M. ) program, often targeted at training foreign lawyers in U.S. law but occasionally an academic degree for post-J. The law of the United States was originally largely derived from the Common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of Higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing D. study focusing on a specialized field (such as tax law).

In addition to attending law school, in most jurisdictions a graduate of a law school is required to pass the state or provincial bar examination in order to practice law. A bar examination is an examination to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice Law in a given Jurisdiction. The Multistate Bar Examination is part of the bar examination in almost all United States jurisdictions; generally, the standardized, common law subject matter of the MBE is combined with state-specific essay questions to produce a comprehensive bar examination. The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE is a six-hour two-hundred Multiple-choice question Examination administered as a part of the Bar examination in almost The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Common law refers to law and the corresponding legal system developed through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view.

In the U. S. , law school typically involves a full time course of study, though there are part-time programs available. An academic major, major concentration, concentration, or simply major is mainly a U In Canada, part-time study is very rare.

On July 3, 2007, the Korean National Assembly passed legislation introducing 'Law School', heavily based on the American post-graduate system. The National Assembly of South Korea is a 299-member Unicameral Legislature. ^[1]

Controversies

Recently, in the United States, critics have emerged questioning the forthrightness of some law schools in providing prospective students with accurate facts regarding alumni job- placement and compensation rates, suggesting that certain law schools may be distorting their statistics in order to attract students to their institutions. ^[2] In particular, many law school graduates--particularly at lower-ranked schools--suggest that their schools utilized correct, but misleading, statistics to attract students. An example of this would be citing the mean graduate salary, instead of the median; while the median salary of law grads in the U. S. is approximately $62,000, the mean could be inflated somewhat by a relatively small concentration of graduates earning starting salaries well above the median. ^[3] Also, it is very likely that even median salary statistics are incorrect, since students who are unemployed, working temporary jobs or have a low salary are less likely to submit a salary report to the school.

A common response to this criticism, however, is that it simply reflects the reality of competitiveness in legal education and in the legal market. With a limited number of top positions available, prospective law students should be circumspect about the employment opportunities that will await them after graduation—especially if they plan on attending a lower-ranked school. At the same time, however, students at prestigious, highly regarded institutions often have a variety of options available. This discrepancy can be seen as a simple function of supply and demand, with the number of newer (and thus lower-ranked) law schools proliferating in recent years. A similar difficulty may be encountered by graduate students in other fields, although the aforementioned lack of accurate information about post-graduate employment may exacerbate the problem for law students. ^[4]

Even when students are able to find jobs at the top-paying law firms, some say that minority law school graduates have difficulty advancing their careers. A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more Lawyers to engage in the practice of law The law student organization Building a Better Legal Profession generated controversy for showing the lack of female and minority partners in large private firms. Building a Better Legal Profession is a national grassroots organization founded by students at Stanford Law School in January 2007 In an October 2007 press conference reported in the Wall Street Journal^[5] and the New York Times,^[6] the group released data publicizing the numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans at America's top law firms. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans of Hispanic or Latino descent, which comprises ancestry or origins in Hispanic America Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry. They include sub-ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Indian A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more Lawyers to engage in the practice of law The group has sent the information to top law schools around the country, encouraging students to take this demographic data into account when choosing where to work after graduation. ^[7] As more students choose where to work based on the firms' diversity rankings, firms face an increasing market pressure in order to attract top recruits. ^[8]

As well, there has been some controversy regarding the stark increases in law school tuition in recent years, at a time when compensation packages in the legal services sector are growing much more slowly than the U. S. inflation rate. ^[9]

Some attribute these issues to insufficient regulation of law schools by the American Bar Association. The total number of Juris Doctor degrees awarded has been on the rise in recent years, at least partially due to the accreditation of new schools by the ABA. ^[10]

Alternative legal education systems

While law schools such as those in the U.S. and Canada are typically post-graduate institutions with considerable autonomy, legal education in other countries is provided within the mainstream educational system from university level and/or in non-degree conferring vocational training institutions. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described In countries such as the United Kingdom and most of continental Europe, academic legal education is provided within the mainstream university system starting at the undergraduate level, and the legal departments of universities are simply departments like any other rather than separate "law schools". The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located In these countries, the term "law school" may be used, but it does not have the same clear cut meaning as it does in North America. There are also sometimes legal colleges that provide vocational training as a post-academic stage of legal education. One example is the College of Law in the United Kingdom, which provides certain professional qualifications which British lawyers must obtain before they may practice as solicitors or barristers but does not confer degrees. The College of Law of England and Wales (CoL is a private educational institution in England which provides Legal education for students and professionals In Australia, the top law schools such as Australian National University, University of Queensland (T. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. C. Beirne School of Law), Sydney Law School and University of Adelaide have emphasised a combination of the British and American systems, employing law as a degree, but done as a combined degree with that of another discipline. Sydney Law School comprises the University of Sydney 's Faculty of Law The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a Public university located in Adelaide, South Australia Whilst Melbourne University Law School recently scrapped Law as an undergraduate combined degree in favour of moving the discipline to graduate study. Melbourne Law School - the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne - is one of Australia's oldest law schools

List of law schools

Main article: Lists of law schools

See also

• Juris Doctor
• Legal education
• Legal education in the United Kingdom

References

Further reading

• Duncan Kennedy: Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, New Edition, New York Univ Press, 2004, ISBN 0814747787

External links

• U.S. News Law School Rankings

The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed Duncan Kennedy (b 1942 in Washington DC) is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School.

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