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Re: COMMON VS: CIVIL LAW

From Louisiana State Bar Guidelines:

SECTION 3.
Requisites for Admission to the Bar. Every applicant for admission to the Bar of this state shall meet all of the following requirements:
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D. Be a graduate of a law school located in the United States or its territories that is accredited by the American Bar Association as of the date on which a juris doctorate or its equivalent is conferred on the applicant. If an applicant is a graduate of a law school that is not located in the United States or its territories, such applicant must submit an application for an equivalency determination in accordance with Section 6 of this Rule.

SECTION 6.
Equivalency Determinations.

A. Application. An applicant who has graduated from a law school that is not located in the United States or its territories must submit an application to the Committee for an equivalency determination. Such application shall be in addition to all other applications required by this Rule. Equivalency applicants who wish to sit for the July bar examination shall submit an equivalency application to the Committee no later than December 1 of the calendar year preceding the July bar examination. Applicants who wish to sit for the February bar examination shall submit an equivalency application to the Committee no later than August 1 of the calendar year preceding the February bar examination.

B. Standard; Burden of Proof. The applicant shall bear the burden of proving that the legal education of the applicant is equivalent to that of the legal education offered in the United States or its territories by a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The American Bar Association standards for accreditation of law schools shall be relevant to any equivalency determination.

C. Equivalency Determination Panel.
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Louisana recognizes JDs from ABA schools. There is no special requirement for civil law training. Quebec, however, does not appear to accept a common law degree.
Lousiana is proud of its civil law tradition but the fact is, they aren't really pure civil law at all anymore. Their criminal procedure is common law, federal practice is mostly common law...the civil law survives in domestic relations, where it resembles the civil law of several other, ex-Mexican states like New Mexico, and in their real estate law, or so I understand it.
Of course, the common law in many of the United States has adopted civil law concepts, such as community property.
Louisiana law schools DO offer civil law courses and I imagine that their Bar exam includes civil law treatment of appropriate subjects, mostly in the private law.
Nosborne

 

really interested in mallet.com discussion board but it wont let me enter after umpteen attempts at entering username/password info - it just keeps saying aithorization required. I submitted the form several times to no avail.

irritating as hell.

Any trick to getting into this site?

 

The law school section of Bears' Guide discusses the various matters discussed in this thread. We haven't yet done the research for next year's edition, but the current edition lists 15 states where people with a non-AB A law degree may qualify to take the bar (typically, however, after practicing for 3 or more years in California); eight states where a person who studied law the way Abe Lincoln did (no law school; with a lawyer or judge as mentor) may petition to take the bar (Ak, CA, ME, NY, VT, VA, WA, WY); and 22 states + DC where a person with a non-US law degree (typically an LL.B.) may take the bar and, if they pass, practice (AL, CA, CO, CT, HI, KY, ME, MO, NV, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA).

Semifinally: in choosing a California distance law school, check their Baby Bar and Bar pass rates. The range is from 0% to more than 50%. Oak Brook has almost always been tops, with Taft and Concord strong seconds.

Finally, I was told by a reliable source that Oak Brook now requires its students to plege not to look at pornography. Can this really be so? How would it be enforced? Would watching Jennifer Lopez at the Oscars get you dismissed?

 

I guess they're not allowed to open e-mail or otherwise use the Internet.


Bruce

 

The application from Regent for their now defunct DL LL.M. contained a pledge not to "use pornography" while a student.

I assume this was not due to concern that "using" pornography would divert attention from one's legal studies, but stemmed from Regent's fundamentalist tradition.

It is curious that this was the only religious tenet that was imposed on all students.

Christopher

 

Re: Christophers last post

You can kill, lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery, fornicate, swear, practice sorcery, covet and fight but do NOT LOOK AT PORNOGRAPHY that is a no-no.

 

While legal education can be conducted at a distance, there are some things that simply require hands-on contact.

Jimmy Swaggart will testify to that.

 

I can address only one state with any confidence, that being New Mexico.
A U of London LLB will not by itself qualify the holder to take the New Mexico Bar. An acquaintance of mine had a residental LLB from the University of Alberta and was admitted in Alberta as a Barrister and Solicitor. Nevertheless, the New Mexico Supreme Court required him to spend a year or so at the University of New Mexico law school where he earned a JD. The school gave him advanced standing based on the fact that a Canadian LLB is a post graduate degree in common law.
Now, had he been able to show that he was admitted to another state bar and had actively practiced law for five years prior to his application in New Mexico, he probably WOULD have been allowed to take our Bar without a JD.
Nosborne