University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco invites you to apply for a one-year LL.M. degree in United States Legal Studies. LL.M. candidates may receive a general degree in U.S. law or elect to specialize in any of the following areas:

International Law and Human Rights

Science, Technology and Intellectual Property

International Business and Trade

Dispute Resolution and Legal Process

Taxation

Family Law

UC Hastings offers you a dynamic and humane intellectual community committed to the pursuit of justice and the highest professional standards. Our LL.M. graduates hold a wide variety of positions in law, business and education both abroad and in the United States. They include judges, law professors, and practitioners. UC Hastings is the first law faculty established in the western United States and is regularly ranked among the top 15 U.S. public law schools.

Our newly renovated classroom building and library feature state-of-the-art technology. We possess one of the largest collections of U.S., international, and comparative legal material in the United States. Our extraordinary collection is backed by the wealth of scholarly resources of the entire University of California and library staff specially trained in international research.

Our J.D. student body is among the most selective and diverse in the United States. Each year we choose an entering J.D. class of about 400 from over 6,000 applications. About one-third represent cultural and ethnic minorities, and many have studied or lived abroad. International students are welcome to join some 45 student organizations and eight student-edited law journals.

At the end of the academic year, LL.M. candidates may apply to transfer into the J.D. program. If they are accepted, LL.M. candidates can transfer their 24 credits from the LL.M. degree to the J.D. degree instead. LL.M. candidates who do transfer into the J.D. program would not receive an LL.M. degree and would be required to complete two additional years of study and all the requirements to receive the J.D. degree.