I am going to law school in the uk next year but ultimately my goal is to practice in the us. How will us law school regard this in the admission process? Do I stand a chance at a T14 school, especially against those who take the more traditional route of the 4 year undergraduate study?
ps: I do hold a US citizenship as I was born there
Conversations with your own faculty will generate better answers than this forum which serves high school students. Good luck
Why not do an undergrad in something other than law if your goal is already to pursue a U.S. law school. It makes little to no sense to me to do what you are proposing.
By UK “law school”, what do you mean: a UK undergraduate/bachelor’s degree, or a UK “conversion course” after you’ve obtained your UK undergraduate/bachelor’s degree?
I’m not sure if you can be admitted as a JD candidate at a US law school once you’re already able to “sit” the bar in the UK through already having a UK law degree.
The English lawyers I know who plan to practice in the US at some point just get a US LLM degree and then can get admitted to the New York bar. I don’t know if they can then get admitted in other states through “waiving in”, but in most states, you cannot get directly admitted to the bar with a UK law degree + a US LLM; you’d have to get a US JD degree–which may not be an option (see above). New York is an exception, and perhaps the only exception, since you can get admitted to the bar just with a UK law degree and a US LLM.
If your goal is to practice in the US, it’s easiest just to get an undergraduate/bachelor’s degree, either in the UK or the US (it doesn’t matter which), and then go to a US law school for a JD.
An LLM works for [url=<a href=“http://admissions.calbar.ca.gov/Education/LegalEducation/ForeignEducation.aspx%5DCalifornia%5B/url”>http://admissions.calbar.ca.gov/Education/LegalEducation/ForeignEducation.aspx]California[/url] too.