Double Degree Programme:
Columbia Law School

Coursework

Students must complete all of their first year coursework at the Receiving Law School in order to be eligible for the award of their LLB from LSE. Students may choose from a range of courses at the Receiving Law School according to its academic requirements. In the first year at the Receiving Law School, students are required to complete part of its mandatory first year curriculum, but are entitled to be 'waived out' of courses whose content is essentially similar to courses taken at LSE. It is up to the Receiving Law School to decide which courses students may be waived from. Typically, students must take courses in these first year subjects of American law at Columbia:

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and in some cases (i.e. where not previously taken) Property

Waivers from mandatory first year courses are subject to final approval by the Receiving Law School based on its review of the student's complete, official LSE transcripts.
Students are also required to complete an approved theoretical or conceptual course in their first year at Columbia in line with the requirement at LSE that Jurisprudence be taken in the third year of the standard LLB degree. The following is an illustrative list of courses at Columbia that have been approved in the past for this purpose. These courses will qualify in future years so long as they continue to be worth at least 2 course credits and evaluated by way of a numerical grade (i.e. rather than pass/fail):

African Law; Asian Americans & The Law (2 credit);

Comparative Constitutional Law; Comparative Law (3 credit);

Comparative Mass Media Law; The Connection of Law to Literature (3 credit);

Critical Legal Thought; Feminist Legal Theory;
Japanese Law and Legal Institutions (3 credit);

The Rule of Law: Perspectives on Legal Thought (3 credit).

Following this course of study a student will be awarded the LLB degree from LSE (typically, in the summer after their first year at the Receiving Law School); and the Columbia Law School JD, which will be equivalent to the standard 3-year JD for professional entry purposes in the US. Award of the JD is in all cases dependent on the student satisfying all graduation requirements of the Receiving Law School.

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