PhD in law (or LLD) easiest, fastest, cheapest.

Hi Law-Dude,

Thanks for the quick response.

You mentioned American university.
Are you located in the US?
Have you thought of taking the bar exam?

Thanks
sshuang

 

I'm located in Canada, but it wasn't too far of a drive to take CLEPs, DSSTs (there's a local source for those), and Excelsior College Examinations, so I did an Excelsior College degree. I did take some American and Canadian regionally-accredited courses at a distance, as well, which is how I'm gauging the difficulty of the London exams.

I work at a distance for an American law firm, so I might take the California bar exam eventually, but for now I want to focus on doing an LLM and being admitted to practice in Ontario.

 

University of South Africa...probably the cheapest. I believe it can be done through research so for you that may be the fastest. I could easily see it going beyond 3-4 years though. Even for law. I believe they require and LLM for admission though.

 

In the United States: JD means Juris Doctor. You may not even APPLY for law school without a Bachelors- It is a professional degree that traditionally takes an additional 3 years of full time study post-graduate study.

 

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This simply isn't true. Tulane plainly states they are one of the few law schools that will accept undergraduates without bachelor degrees. Cooley is another such school. Other schools such as Indiana have direct admission programs which admit talented undergrads.

 

Under current American Bar Association rules, law schools are allowed to admit students with only three years of undergraduate study. And law schools can waive even that requirement in "an extraordinary case".

In practice, the vast majority of students admitted to law schools do have undergraduate degrees, and at some schools it may be strictly required. On the other hand, "3+3" programs seem to be becoming more common. In these programs, students are admitted to law schools after three years (not four) of college, and then spend three years in law school. Such students are awarded the BA degree after the first year of law school, and then the JD two years later.

 

You are looking for the impossible: Cheap, easy and fast doesn't exist. If you want cheap and fast, then I would suggest a PhD by publication in some of the british schools. You will be required to have at least 3 solid publications in peer reviewed journals.

However, research PhDs are not eligible to practice law in most countries, I don't know what is the purpose of this degree, but practicing law in most cases requires an accredited law degree, passing a bar exam and getting some work experience.

I really don't understand the point of getting a PhD in law from a cheap school, it is not going to help you to land a tenure tack position neither will help you to practice law. The question is what do you want to do with the degree, once you know this then you can search for options that can help you to get there.

Many members come here with the idea that a PhD will be the answer to their prayers and a better salary without thinking that a PhD is only valuable when certain variables come together.

 

Yes there are sources which provides this kind of opportunities for the students who are interested in learning law.Most importantly the thing that i think of taking care is how its reasonable much for us so that the provision stays helpful and we get learning.