What is LLM?

In simple terms, LLM is a year (strictly speaking is 9 months) of the America legal crash course, equivalent to that of other professional master's degree. The full name is the Master of Law. compared to JD (Dr. American law), LLM time is short, can also pass the qualification as a lawyer. Because time is short, less investment, so LLM is the first choice of domestic law students who go abroad study in USA.

Then LLM will learn what?

Overall the LLM courses are divided into General program and specialized program two, but gradually weaken the profession trend. Basically all of the schools are General program, select the general program undergraduates can arbitrarily elective. Even if the division of professional schools are usually allow students to choose freely elective mode. Different choices will determine the direction of professional students of law. LLM law school curriculum USA range is very wide, intellectual property law, tax law, international law, international commercial law, maritime law, environmental law, criminology, law, comparative law, company law, bankruptcy law, the public order is the more popular course.

How to apply the LLM difficulty?

American University LLM professional does not require GRE/GMAT, does not require LSAT scores, because it can be said that standardized test is the only TOEFL/IBT score. Because of the characteristics of professional itself, most of the LLM professional IBT admission minimum requirement is 100 (part of the school and individual requirements), and the average admission TOP14 law school is around 110.

Work experience. Most of the school of law for work experience or fancy, 2-3 years of work experience can bring a lot of opportunities for you to apply for the scholarship, the chance of big lot.

For the love of university scholars, like Chicago, Harvard, Yale, research experience may be more important than experience, and therefore more inclined to graduate. For graduate students, research results and direction is very important. For undergraduate students, GPA is very much, because nearly every law school rankings are asked to send the certificate and transcript. The general application of GPA at around 3.5, many of the top law school admission average GPA is up to 3.6-3.8, the competition is very fierce.

Social activities, the honor and the law related experience. Various internship experience, such as in the court, the procuratorate, the firm's relevant internship experience, social investigation and practice, legal aid, legal academic exchange activities are used as the evaluation standard university applicants. Because each applicant's experience and concerns of each are not identical, recommend the applicant according to their own characteristics for the breakthrough point, highlight the flash point yourself, try to highlight his out of the ordinary.

So the reading of LLM's prospects?

After generally get LLM degree, students generally have three options, first, is also most Chinese students choose is to return to employment, economic development Chinese will need more understand the law, understand foreign languages, international vision, so the employment situation is not wrong.

Second is to stay in America pass America bar. But America lawyer qualification only in the state of effective, that is to say if you go out of the state that he need to re apply, unless it is licensed for 7 years. But only 11 American states allow LLM graduates to obtain a license, including California and New York, is generally preferred by students.

The third choice is from LLM to JD. JD need to take the LSAT exam results, but LLM JD is difficult, to accept the LLM JD school itself is very limited, quota of people is very small, the competition is very fierce