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UC Hastings - LL.M. Class of 2011
If you are a foreign attorney or hold a degree that would qualify you for the practice of law from a recognized law faculty outside the U.S., UC Hastings 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.
Hastings offers a J.D. transfer program which allows LL.M. students to apply to the J.D. program using first semester grades and faculty recommendations in substitution for an LSAT score. Applications are submitted during second semester. If the LL.M. candidate is admitted into the J.D. program, he or she does not receive an LL.M. degree; instead the 24 credits earned as an LL.M. are applied towards satisfaction of the J.D. degree, and the student is required to complete two additional years of study and any additional requirements necessary to receive the J.D. degree.
