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The University of Texas School of Law is one of the most outstanding law schools in the United States, with an excellent faculty and a diverse student body. Our LL.M. is a one year, full-time program. We offer a general LL.M. in U.S. law and five specializations. Elevate your academic standing and your professional viability by earning your LL.M. degree from UT Law. We invite you to join us!
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• UT Law ranked #1 for a return of your investment and #15 overall by US News and World Report
• One of the richest academic programs in the country • Course of study tailored to each student’s academic and professional interests
• Small classes and inclusive environment • Specialized courses for LL.M. students, including courses to meet New York Bar requirements
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terms of immediate post-LL.M. placement: you can return back home, or you can stay, or you can go to a third country. It might seem that this is the choice you can defer to the end of the aca- demic year, but this appearance is misleading. In fact, you have to make this particular choice right away, at the very start, because it influences the substance of your LL.M. life – your schedule, your workload, and your opportunities for extra-curric- ulum activities. We have encountered three basic perspectives in this regard: • Studying for the bar • Further research • “It’s my year out”
A majority of LL.M.s in U.S. law schools want to be admitted to the bar in the U.S., in other words, to pass a bar exam. This allows you to practice law in the U.S. But apart from admission to the bar (especially in the state of New York), pass- ing the bar is a sort of quality stamp for lawyers working in the private sector. So 100 percent of those who seek a job in the U.S. and many oth- ers who plan to work in a law firm anywhere in the world spend their academic year preparing for a bar exam. Crucially, this does not mean that people merely spend several weeks after gradua- tion studying hard – quite the opposite, you have to design your curriculum in a certain way so that you are essentially studying for the bar all aca- demic year long.
Eligibility requirements for U.S. bar exams include a list of mandatory courses you must take – usu- ally core subjects such as, for example, Contracts or Constitutional Law, as well as certain ancillary courses on legal research, writing and analy- sis, and professional ethics. Since the number of courses you can take in an LL.M. program is limited, it might be hard to fit into your schedule something that really interests you, like a class on law and literature or on the principle of proportion- ality. And because we opted for that course on proportionality, we would urge those who do not absolutely have to take the bar for employment
ILSA Quarterly » volume 22 » issue 3 » February 2014
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