<p>This post is in the graduate school as well. Is Harvard Law School an ABA school? meaning do i have to have a LLB to get a JD degree?</p>
<p>What?!!!! An ABA school means one accredited by the American Bar Association. A LLB is a bachelor of laws, a degree which is no longer offered by any American law school. A LLB is offered as an undergraduate degree in many nations in which the legal system is based on the UK system. Thus, you can get a LLB in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. You do not have to go abroad and get a LLB to study at an American law school. Most people go to college in the US and can a bachelors of arts or bachelor of science degree and then go to law school and get a JD.</p>
<p>Does that answer your question?</p>
<p>no, i don't think you get what i'm asking...</p>
<p>ABA schools require students to pass LLB to get a JD (professional) degree. I'm only talking about getting JD in USA. My question is: Does Harvard Law school require students to a undergraduate LLB degree in order to get a JD?</p>
<p>Your belief that "ABA schools require students to pass LLB to get a JD (professional) degree" is mistaken. The LLB (bachelor of laws) is no longer offered in the US. When it was, it was the equivalent of today's J.D., not a prerequisite.</p>
<p>ABA-accredited schools have to require at least three years of undergraduate study as a prerequisite for admission to the J.D. program; most require a bachelor's degree.</p>
<p>Students who have an LLB from a university outside the US who want to enter a J.D. program here typically get an LLM first.</p>
<p>alright then, i HAVE to HAVE a undergraduate law degree... Is Harvard an ABA school?</p>
<p>Let's try one more time: YOU DON'T NEED AN UNDERGRADUATE LAW DEGREE. You need a BA or BS.</p>
<p>Law school in US is a graduate school you attend after college. You first go to college and get a BA or BS in essentially any major (but not law) and then go to law school. Law schools then award the graduate JD degree. The ABA accredits law schools. It cares not what the schools call the degree that you get from college or law school. There exists no requirement that one have an undergraduate law LLB or other law related degree to go to law school and it is something that does not even happen anymore in the US.</p>
<p>Just to reiterate: Typically in the US, in order to practice law in a court of law at whatever level, one must obtain either a BA or a BS (or the foreign equivalent) AND a JD, which typically takes three years.</p>