Hi All,

Is there anyone who knows whether a non-law graduate is eligible to take LL.M programs?If yes in which universities adn what programs?

Thanks All!

Regards,
Kelvin

This has been discussed before, eg
http://www.llm-guide.com/board/74480
http://www.llm-guide.com/boardsearch/q/%22non-law

This article may also be useful:
http://www.llm-guide.com/article/213/llm-programs-for-non-law-graduates

Nearly 50% of the students in our program are not law graduates.

But our program is not a general law program if that is what you're looking for. Rather it only specializes in areas such as international tax, financial services, wealth management and anti money-laundering. Thus, as you might suspect, those 50% non-lawyers work for banks and investment firms. You can contact me if you are interested - or google me to read about the program - Prof. William H. Byrnes

Another LLM program that admits about half non-lawyers that may interest you is at St. Thomas in Miami. That program is in intercultural human rights.

Nearly 50% of the students in our program are not law graduates.

But our program is not a general law program if that is what you're looking for. Rather it only specializes in areas such as international tax, financial services, wealth management and anti money-laundering. Thus, as you might suspect, those 50% non-lawyers work for banks and investment firms. You can contact me if you are interested - or google me to read about the program - Prof. William H. Byrnes

Another LLM program that admits about half non-lawyers that may interest you is at St. Thomas in Miami. That program is in intercultural human rights.

Feel free to reach out. I have just returned to the USA after two months working with my non-US institutions on establishing our localized, foreign language US law degrees.

My blog is williambyrnes.wordpress.com and has my contact details under my biography

and 100% of your graduates will end-up with useless and expensive "degrees".

and 100% of your graduates will end-up with useless and expensive "degrees".

Dank - I think that you are correct that such an LLM should be contextually specialised to the candidate's employment (or intended employment) to generally generate a return on the investment.

By example, a tax accountant may financially benefit from earning a jurisprudential based tax degree, and in the same vein a tax lawyer from a accounting based tax degree. A finance MBA may benefit from learning product structuring from the legal and tax aspects while a securities lawyer may benefit from finance courses.

I have several finance MBAs enrolled in our Treasury Risk Management (Futures & Options simualtion in gold denominated accounts) course and in the Debt Structuring & Taxation course this summer (see http://my.calendars.net/tjsl/d01/07/2010?display=M&style=B&positioning=A) - yet for many these courses would not contextually deliver value because these subjects exist in a niche of investment banking.

ya so basically it has to build upon a person's experience and unlike the MBA, it is not a career-changing degree and cannot be used stand-alone. So for non lawyers, they really need to look at the value and whether it fits in with their goals.

Yes I would agree with you - it must be considered in the context of your university degree, work experience if any, and of course what you want to do in the future.

Compliance and tax - it works stand alone. Wealth management - in between. Investment banking - can't be stand alone.

excellent post in terms of what does not work stand alone. That is important for those who do not have a law degree.

My experience is that it is true for most, if not all degrees - at the Masters level.

University degrees I have not found have any stand alone relevancy for obtaining students' career outcomes. I haven't undertaken much research to understand the specific turning point, but my best guess is that either (1) certain positions became more complex, or (2) from a "job slot" approach, so many applicants have university degrees and now MBAs, that employers look for another criterion by which to create an efficient short list for interviews.