I've been researching 2 year law programs and have found the following. Does anyone know of others? Not looking to be a lawyer ..... Accredited Woodbury College – Master of Science in Law http://www.woodbury-college.info/default.asp California University of Pennsylvania - Master in Legal Studieshttp://www.cup.edu/graduate/legal/index.jsp Non Accredited Northwestern California School of Law – Bachelor of Science in Law http://www.nwculaw.edu/cgi-bin/nwcu/programs_lawstudy.html UK Based Univeristy of London External - 2 year LLB http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/prospective_students/undergraduate/panel/law/index.shtml Northumbria University - Graduate Diploma in Law (Common Professional Examination) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/law/ourprogs/gdl/content/?view=Standard BTW my story is I followed BA in 4 weeks and tested out 119 credits in 9 mths for my Bachelors with Charter Oak. Then through NCC Education spent 6 months studying for a PGDip in Strategic Business IT with a plan to continue with Portsmouth Uni (UK) for the MSc. Didn't work out for me so I enrolled in a Professional Doctorate in Information Security at the University of East London (UK) cheers
Maybe not what you are looking for, but I've always been intrigued by Harrison Middleton's Master of Arts in Jurisprudence. http://www.chumsci.edu/pages/degree/m_Jurispru.asp
FWIW: 1. Bellevue BAS Legal Studies - http://www.bellevue.edu/cs/ContentServer?c=buDegree&pagename=bu%2FbuLayout&p=1170772032738&cid=1201738767305 2. Bellevue BS Legal Studies - http://www.bellevue.edu/cs/ContentServer?c=buDegree&pagename=bu%2FbuLayout&p=1170772032738&cid=1201738281944 I don't know anything about either of these programs but this school is RA and it looks like both programs are 1 year accelerated.
Two degrees that pop to mind are the California University of Pennsylvania's M.S. in Legal Studies and Nova Southeastern's Master of Health Law. Both are RA.
The following JD degrees can be completed in two years. Novus Law School http://novus.edu/ Mid-Atlantic School of Law http://www.midatlanticlaw.org/
law do these law programs prepare you to pass the bar exam? Do you know of any programs similar to northwestern law program in chicago but located in California?
Then there is the THOMAS JEFFERSON LAW SCHOOL IN SAN DIEGO CA. This is an ABA accredited B&M school with a rather nice online program for lawyers and non lawyers alike. Getting a Law degree from an ABA accredited school, IMHO give the degree a higher level or credibility. I was looking into a law degree (non lawyer) not that long ago and they were very responsive to my questions. Hope this helps, Doc [FONT="][/FONT]http://mastersinlaw.tjsl.edu
Shawn, I don't mean to be rude, please don't take it this way. It seems, to me at least, that you are being lazy. You want us to read and do the research for you. If you look closely to all of these degrees you will notice that the majority are LLM degrees. These online (LLM) degrees are geared towards JD holders. They will not prepare you to sit for the BAR exam. Again, I'm not being rude or mean, I'm just curious to know if you really know the difference between JD, LLM, LLB. Hope this helps
The OP wants a Law Degree - not to practice law, just a degree in law. The TJLS looks like it fits the bill..
If the OP merely wants a degree in law, then the BSL, MSL, JSM, MJ degrees should suffice. Of course the LLM is reserved for JD holders. In that TJSL is a standalone ABA law school, and the ABA only accredits JDs, then technically, the JSM degree offered by TJLS would be unaccredited in that TJLS doesn’t hold regional accreditation. Loyola University-Chicago (School of Law): offers a MJ in several specializations (w/one available online). In that Loyola University is RA and its Law School ABA; the degree would be RA. Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) Degree | School of Law | Loyola University Chicago Nova Southeastern University-Shepard Broad Law Center: MS in Employment Law Main - Master of Science in Employment Law MS in Health Law Master of Science in Health Law Both degrees would be RA with Nova Southeastern being RA and its Law School ABA; however, even though the degrees would be awarded by the law school, neither degree would be ABA accredited because the ABA only accredits the JD.
My error as regards the ABA only accrediting JD programs; there is ONE exception: Of the 201 institutions that are ABA-approved; 200 confer the first degree in law (the J.D. degree), with the ABA accrediting one law school that confers only one resident graduate course degree— the LLM in Military Law: U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS) in Charlottesville, VA. (TJAGLCS is located adjacent to the University of Virginia Law School). ABA-Approved Law Schools | Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar