Hello,
I am completing my final year at the University of Bristol in the UK and am on course to earn a second upper, or 2:1. My main interest in law lies in jurisprudence and legal theory. I was wondering if it is logical and reasonable to do a Masters of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, and then perhaps a LLM at Harvard Law School in comparative constitutional law? Does this plan sound realistic or is it just a big waste of time to do 2 law postgraduate degrees? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi there,

Personally, i think you will be better doing only 1 out of the two of them. The LLM is a fairly flexible program which allows you to choose any 8 courses you would like to complete and your key consideration would probably to choose a University that has the jurisprudence courses that interests you.

Also, take into account that most LLM courses in Australia are combined with non-law students (under a different degree name) so the amount of assumed knowledge needed would not be as high as those that are exclusive to law graduates - e.g. the Harvard LLM. If you intend to learn at a more advance level,. you should perhaps look for programs that are exclusive to law graduates.


Best Regards
Greg