UofL International Programme

Hi dboven: Can you get 'Scholarship' for the UoL International Programmes too ? If so, how to apply for that ?

 

By Masters are you referring to an LLM? Is your final go to practice law in America? I will be honest, if you're dead set on those two colleges then you have an all up hill battle. I'm not saying it's impossible but Columbia and NYU are VERY selective when it comes to law programs. Well they are pretty much selective in every program. Will they recognize a degree from UoL? Probably so. It carries the US equivalent to regional accreditation. Will be it enough to get...my personal opinion...possible, but not probably. With that said, you should contact an admission advisor from each school.

 

Let me just qualify this: If an LLM program for foreign-trained attorneys actually requires or prefers that applicants be attorneys, admitted to practice law, the London LLB might work, but I think it would only take you so far on a longer road.

For instance, to become a solicitor in England and Wales, it appears that the London LLB within specified parameters may meet the requirements for the "academic stage of training."

But then aspiring solicitors have to take the "vocational stage of training." This includes the Legal Practice Course, which is one year FT or two years PT; and a training contract to work as a trainee solicitor, and this usually lasts for two years.

I'm not sure whether it's possible to complete a training contract this for a British law firm or agency from outside the UK. Even within the UK you might face barriers to securing a training contract. Coming from abroad, you might face barriers to immigrating to the UK to take employment per se.

Is your plan (a) to take the London LLB then complete the second stage of training within the UK, (b) to use the London LLB to qualify to practice law somewhere else, (c) to apply to NYU and Columbia LLM programs without being admitted to practice law independently, or (d) to apply to master's programs at NYU and Columbia in some other field?