<p>Hi, I am currently in high school in California and was wondering how becoming a lawyer works in the UK. I won't be staying in the UK for a long time, I'll probably leave a couple years after I graduate. What should my major be?</p>
<p>Why would you study law in the UK if you’re not going to stay in the UK?</p>
<p>Law isn’t like medicine or engineering or architecture. Those fields are pretty much the same wherever you practice them. The pancreas works the same way in Liverpool or in Los Angeles, and walls constructed the same way support the same weight wherever they’re located. But the law in L.A. isn’t at all like the law in Liverpool. In this way, practicing law is more like being a tour guide; it’s specific to a place. You seem to be asking, “How can I get licensed as a tour guide in England, so that I can give tours of the stars’ homes in Beverly Hills?”</p>
<p>Well my parents want to move to England because we have family over there; they want me to go with them to study. And I don’t really plan on staying there. I’m saying if I really have to go with them, am I stuck as a lawyer in the UK?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. You could leave the UK and not be a lawyer. You could take a B.A. in almost anything you like the UK, and then get a J.D. at an American university (just the same as you would if you’d taken your B.A. in the States). </p>
<p>But you shouldn’t expect you can just be a lawyer elsewhere because you read law at a university in the UK.</p>
<p>Of course, I understand the laws are different. Thanks for the help</p>