I am a 16 year old British girl wanting to study Law in America- how?
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As an undergraduate in the UK, you can study law and obtain your Bachelor of Laws degree. No such degree exists in the States. Instead, after obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in another subject, you’d go on for a JD – three years of study post-graduate.
So you are certainly welcome to come to the US to study law, but you’d only be able to do that AFTER you complete your bachelor’s degree. You are also welcome to come to the US to do your bachelor’s degree, but it would be in a subject other than law (it could be in history, or French, or engineering, or what have you.) If you did your undergraduate degree in the US, you’d want to find a university that offered something called “Pre-Law”. This isn’t a course of study (what we call a “major”), but it’s an advising program that helps ensure you are prepared for law school applications once you do get your bachelors.
Many UK students actually end up studying law in the UK, and then coming to the US for an LLM. That’s an advanced degree for people who are already lawyers. I’ll give a link, below.
Your best option may be to stay in the UK and do your undergraduate degree in law, preferably in a university that does a good job teaching international law. Then come to the US for your LLM.
I’ve given a link (the first one) to an article that explains what a JD is in the US, and how it compares to the legal education and qualifications you’d receive in the UK.
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