Double Degree Programme:
Columbia Law School
Coursework
Students must complete all of their first year coursework at Columbia Law School in order to be eligible for the award of their LLB from LSE. Students may choose from a range of courses at Columbia Law School according to its academic requirements. In the first year at Columbia, 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 Columbia 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 Columbia 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. Courses within Columbia Law School’s category “History and Philosophy of Law” will satisfy this requirement on the condition that the selected course is worth at least 2 course credits and is evaluated by way of a numerical grade (not: pass/fail). For a list of courses under this category, see here: History and Philosophy of Law Courses - CLS.
Following
this course of study, a student will be awarded the LLB degree from LSE
(typically, in the summer after their first year at Columbia); 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 Columbia Law School.
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