Hello, UK student here. I applied to a bunch of US colleges but don’t know anything yet. I intend to do postgrad law in the US and then hopefully live there, but I have got unconditional offers from UCL (philosophy) and LSE (politics and philosophy). I’m inclined to go for LSE if the US colleges don’t work out, but I wouldn’t mind some more feedback if possible.
Which would be better - UCL or LSE?
Are you asking which name will carry more weight in the US? By a slim margin LSE has more name-recognition/familiarity than UCL.
But in real life, getting a job in the US (assuming you don’t have citizenship/green card) with a freshly minted law degree is going to be extremely difficult and what will matter much, much, much more than your undergrad is your law school. You definitely want to be in the T-13 (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU, Penn, UVA, Berkeley, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, Cornell and Georgetown), and I would think T3 or 4. There is a glut of law school graduates at the moment (though that might be different in 6 years, when you expect to graduate), so there is more competition for jobs to start with. My guess is that your best bet would be a firm with offices in both the US and UK, where you can go back and forth.
@collegemom3717 thanks for the response. I was asking which would carry more weight, and yeah, LSE does appear to have a bit more prestige (it also has fantastic head hunting in London were I not to go straight to a postgrad).
I appreciate that finding a job will be difficult. I am really looking at the Ivies (hopefully I’ll get into some that I have applied to) or thereabouts but, in all honesty, I can’t say for certain whether I’ll have the same ambitions this time next year, let alone 4 years. Thus, I suppose the only practical question I should be asking myself for sure is that of this thread 
Thanks!
@LucasKovacs LSE is more well known in the United States especially among employers in NYC. UCL not so much but nevertheless makes the top 20 of all global rankings so I guess employers and academics would know the school. If you’re doing politics and philosophy or PPE I’ll definetely go with LSE over UCL. UCL does have a joint lw degree program with Columbia, you should look into that: http://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/llb-degrees/joint-llb-jd/
2 years in UCL and 2 years in Columbia you can work in either the big law firms in London or NYC. LSE also seems to have this too: https://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/programmes/doubledegree/guidelines.htm
@Ali1302 thanks man. Didn’t know about that. Literally right up my street.
I would go for UCL. I am not an expert, but I have heard from friends (through their kids) that UCL has a number of options of doing 1 or 2 years of your degree in the USA, while I have not heard the same re: LSE. If you think you might want to move to the USA for law school, then spending a year of undergrad will help you learn more about the USA and make some longer term friends/contacts. Good luck.
LSE has a stronger international reputation and is definitely more popular in the US considering more Marshall Scholars elect to go there than to UCL.
http://www.nairaland.com/141689/rough-guide-best-most-reputable/9#13802115
LSE also has the stronger Law department.
Research:
https://www.researchprofessional.com/media/pdf/UoA20_Law.pdf
Look at section on the hiring by Magic Circle and Top US Law firms:
http://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/where-to-start/newsletter/law-firms-preferred-universities
LSE is probably a little more prestigious than UCL and better known in the US. Also, politics and philosophy is probably better for pre-law than just studying philosophy, but it depends on what you want to do.