JDCalled JurisDoctor. Although the name is Doctor, but in fact in American, because the undergraduate course is no law of the professional, so JD is for the Bachelor of law degree America after, which belongs to FirstLawDegree, any bachelor's degree students can apply for JD, however USA more hope oneself JD applicants, also is to have a professional background in a particular area is, in some sense, non legal professional graduates to apply JD advantage.

LLMCalled MasterOfLaws, which is a master's degree in law specialty, it is with a special background of occupation legal professional degree, the applicant for the general law of undergraduate students, master of law and current legal personnel, no law related experience and academic background of the applicants cannot apply for.

JSDCalled DoctorOfJuridicalScience, it is the law, the true sense, is an advanced degree, the legal profession in general, applicants must have the occupation target engaged in legal research, and must have Master degree or JD degree will be able to apply for the.

1.LLM (MasterOfLaws), known as the master of law. Most America law school LLM degree is set for international students, but require applicants to have access to legal undergraduate or graduate degree in the country. Applicants need to provide language test results, namely TOEFLResults. The LLM degree is divided into GeneralProgram (universal curriculum) and SpecializeProgram (Zhuan Xiuke), length of schooling for one year, to take the credit system, the general law school requires 24 credits. GeneralThe Program program is the basic law American learning, including the Constitution (ConstitutionalLaw (Contract), contract lawLaw (Tort), tort lawThe criminal law (Criminal, Law)Law),Company law (CorporationLaw, bankruptcy law (BankruptcyLaw (Family), family lawLaw (Legal) and legal writingWriting and Specialize.) and so onProgram is a specific research courses, such as international tax law project (InternationalTaxationThe Program project (Comparative) comparison methodLawProgram)Project (International, international lawLaw) etc.. At present, many American law school to LLM degree of the applicant to provide the scholarship, the applicant may obtain three points

 

One, 1/2 or even one hundred percent TuitionWaive. ABA(AmericanBarAssociation) USA lawyers association approved law school LLM graduates, can be in New York or California lawyer qualification examination, the examination for the qualification as a lawyer and the lawyer occupation ethics exam MultistateProfessionalResponsibilityExamination(MPRE), access to the New York or California lawyer qualification.

 

LLM-- is a legal courses a year, equivalent to a master's degree. The name is MASTEROFLAW, American native students basically to read JD,Can say, a one-year course LLM is specifically for international students, the learning time is 9 months. Professional branch: such as: Business Law, intellectual property law, criminal law, civil law of tort, Chinese law, human rights law, environmental law.

 

The state law as an important branch of the legal category, has been LLM as an important part of foreign law education. The Chinese students want to learn is the national economy, especially after joining the WTO China, importance of national anti unfair competition law, state law become more and more important delivery etc.. The ranking is in front of the Law School of New York University, Duke University, except Georgetown, AmericanUniversityThis ranking is not high school of law in international law ranked first.

Since the Chinese in opening to the outside world, intellectual property law has been the focus of law between China and the United States, so it has been a major field of study Chinese law students to USA. Chinese after joining the WTO, the development of intellectual property law also contributed to the development of the education of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property law rank and USThe News rankings have conflicts of interest, in addition to the Stanford elite, intellectual property law in the top ten as well as HoustonLawSchoolAnd even as SantaClaraSmall law school this unknown.

The commercial outstanding law school in New York, "the old school, it is particularly worth mentioning is the BostonCollege.American commercial I like KentThe Greenfield concentration in BostonCollege. BC has become an intensely competitive law school. Commercial law is strong and IowaLawSchoolAnd EmoryLawSchool. In addition, it is worth mentioning that GoergeMasonLawSchool. Although this is just a regional law school, but the economic research and economic law of the university is extremely strong, have Nobel laureate VernonLomaxSmithThe professor is teaching in this university, and majored in economic law GM university is therefore known American.

Environmental law in recent years has become a very popular department law circle, especially during the Obama administration has clearly put the environment and new energy as an important department of law. Although there is no home to support environmental litigation of collective action, but there have been studies and clinic lot of environmental law. A separate ranking of environmental law and USNewsThe law also ranked very different. The Oregon has two law school, OregonLawSchool and Lewis&ClarkLawSchoolEnvironmental law of the two law school have come out in front.

1TaxLaw (many schools have the professional direction, is a legal research on popular direction, some schools set up MLT(MasterOfLawsInTaxation) degree)

2BankruptcyLaw(the professional direction of the more common)

3BusinessLaw (common professional direction)

4HumanRightsLaw(common professional direction)

5AmericanLaw(common professional direction)

6CommercialLaw(common professional direction)

7ComparativeLaw (common professional direction)

8EnvironmentalLaw(common professional direction)

9EstatePlanning (common professional direction)

10FamilyLaw(common professional direction)

11GovernmentProcurementLaw(common professional direction)

12HealthLaw(common professional direction)

13IntellectualPropertyLaw (common professional direction)

14InsuranceLaw(common professional direction)

15InternationalBusinessAndEconomics(common professional direction)

16InternationalAndComparativeLaw(common professional direction)

17InternationalLaw (common professional direction)

18Banking

19ChildLaw

20ClimateChange

 

 

1ConstitutionalLaw(should be governmentLawThat's about it.

2CorporateLawAndGovernance(estimation and BusinessLawSome repeat)

3CriminalLaw(should the culvert trialAdvocacy)

4DisputeResolution

5ElderLaw

6EmployeeBenefits

7EnergyAndEnvironmentalLaw

8EntertainmentAndMedia

9GeneralStudiesOrU.S.Law

10AmericanBusinessLaw

11IndigenousPeoplesLawAndPolicy

12InformationTechnologyLaw

13InternationalCommercialLaw

14InternationalCriminalLawAndJustice

15InternationalDevelopment

16InternationalTax&FinanceLaw

17InternationalTradeAndTradeRegulation

18Law&Economics

19MilitaryLaw

20ProsecutorialScience

21ScienceAndTechnology

22SecuritiesAndFinance

23AdmiraltyLaw