Hi, I am a graduate student in the states. I've already finished my BS and I have 2 more courses for my MS.

I am considering studying law in Ireland, but I am not sure how the program works. I was looking at Trinity College's website and it appears that the law program is an undergraduate program.

Any information you can provide is most helpful.

Thanks!

Trinity College Law School offers three postgraduate degree programmes: LL.M., M.Litt and Ph.D.

The LL.M. degree is taught over a period of one academic year. The year is divided into two semesters during each of which students are required to take three half options. Each half-option is offered in one semester only and involves 22 hours of classwork. Students are required to sit examinations towards the beginning of the Hilary Term and the end of Trinity term (i.e. January, May/June) in each of the six half options, and complete a research dissertation over the academic year on an approved theme.

Students choose from a list of LL.M. full and half-options and from certain subjects offered as part of the LL.B. Degree programme. The Law School Committee reserves the right to fix a quota for any particular option, or to withdraw an option, or in a particular academic year, to introduce an additional option or to decline to offer an option.

http://www.llm-guide.com/university/142
http://www.tcd.ie/Law/PGCourses.html

1. Law is taught at undergrad level in Ireland
2. You are unlikely to get a place on any of the programs mentioned above because if I read your post correctly you have no law degree
3. 2 places in Ireland teach law to people who have degrees in other fields already they are Cork and Galway
4. The LLB or BCL degrees are the nearest Irish equivlant to the JD
5. The range of subjects you are likely to get in Ireland on these programs will in likelihood not be as good as the range available on a JD