MacQuarie University's Online JD

The JSD/SJD would seem to be a phenomenally pricey degree. From a financial standpoint I'm not sure it would be worth it and since you can already teach law with a JD I am not sure that it would give people an advantage. From what I've read it (JSD) is on par with German lawyers who are called doctor because they actually have the equivalent of a PhD. But really how often does an American attorney want to appear equivalent to a German top lawyer?

If I understand the sequence someone would have to earn a bachelor's degree, a JD, LLM, and then the SJD. It is a little mind-boggling in terms of the amount of work, amount of money and the necessity of sacrificing family time, life, and trying to earn a living.

 

What I usually see is that criminal justice programs will have NTT (non-tenure-track) faculty teach law courses, a faculty member from the law school teach law courses, or a tenure-track professor within the department who has a JD and PhD teach law courses. I took business law at a community college, so a doctorate wasn't required for an instructor. My doctoral-level criminal law course was taught by a professor with a JD and PhD. You might be right about them not having a JSD or SJD. Now that I think about it, I'm more likely to see a JD with a PhD as I go through faculty bios.

 

The PhD/JD combination is becoming more common, that's true.