Two Years of Law School

Posted By: Law is Cool July 29, 2008

You heard us whine about the seven year law degree.

But now there’s a school in the U.S. with a two year degree.

  • Time This is a five-semester program that will begin in May. The 25 to 60 students expected to join will take the same number of credits as students in the three-year program. They’ll take extra courses each semester and pick up one or two credits through mini-courses between semesters.
  • Curriculum While the two-year option will have the same curriculum as the traditional program, the two-year students will be the first to test two new required courses: quantitative reasoning, including accounting, finance and statistics; and the dynamics of legal services behavior, including skills such as teamwork, leadership and project management.

But they also require students to have several years of work experience.  So it does not mean we’ll have 23 year old lawyers running around, for now.

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1 Comment on "Two Years of Law School"

  1. Christy | July 29, 2008 at 11:23 am |

    We do already have 23 year old lawyers running around. You can graduate in Quebec from CEGEP at 18 (turning 19), then do a three year civil law degree (B.C.L. or LL.L. depending on the university)), and at 21 (turning 22) you are ready to write the Quebec bar and start your articles. Or you can stay back for 1 more year and graduate with both the civil law and common law degree at 22 (turning 23).

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