Hello,
I’m about to go to college soon and it’s might be ambitious to think of a PHD degree at such as early point but I like to plan ahead. Here is my educational plan
Undergraduate- Bs or Ba economic
Then a master in economics
But I want to do an PHD in law, it is possible to make such change or do I have to get a law degree beforehand ?
thank you for your response
You have to get a law degree first. Even if you found a school that didn’t require it, you’d be at a huge disadvantage not having the background.
I have never heard of a PhD in law until today (Yale offers it as do 22 programs worldwide). In the past, I knew this degree as an SJD.
Yale’s PhD in law started in the Fall of 2013. It was the first PhD in law offered by a US law school. A three year program which requires that one first earn a JD degree.
I’m not a lawyer, so am not good at all these technicalities and confusing issues further. However, I never heard of a PhD in law, which I guess is new. There used to be an LLB, and LLM, but now the LLB is called a JD, so you first get a doctorate and then a masters. I believe that the LLD is awarded in the US only as an honorary degree, usually to those who haven’t studied law at all. If you meant, you want to get a JD, which is also a doctorate, you can of course study for that.
A PhD in law is useless unless you want to teach law in a law school. There are no prospects of teaching law unless one graduates from a top law school. Why the interest?
It’s more important to have work experience (internships etc) than to collect degrees.
Agree 100% w/ @HappyAlumnus. The teaching market is BRUTAL right now and I imagine will continue to be in the future; a PhD in law is 100% useless unless you go to like, Yale’s program.