The fact is, research activity and research led teaching is resource intensive and faculty need time to develop and deliver these.
The Amicus Interviews: Professor Reena Patel (Part I)
The breadth of the curriculum, covering 60 courses over 5 years itself was a huge change and brought many new, multidisciplinary course offerings that had never been taught, such as Law and Rural Development, Environmental Law, among others.
The LLM #Admission Interviews: Justin Swinsick, University of Chicago
UChicago Law is a small school and prides itself on these relationships. The friends and professional contacts students make stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Amicus Interviews: Nishant Gokhale on Indian law schools, legal education & more (Part II)
Law schools need to create incentives to enable students to take up work that they are passionate about, rather than doing a bewildering number of internships for the sole reason that other law students are.
The Amicus Interviews: Nishant Gokhale on Harvard Law, Gates Cambridge & more (Part I)
The LL.M. is a broad-ranging experience so the purpose cannot be anything but subjective. Ask yourself why you want to do it and this will likely yield answers to when and where you would like to pursue it.
First Person Accounts: Bikram Chaudhuri on the Comparative and International Dispute Resolution LL.M., QMUL
For me, the fact that a candidate has an LLM degree is not automatically impressive. What matters is whether the degree and the experience have added any real value to him/her.
First Person Accounts: Vanya Rakesh on the LLM in Law & Digital Technologies, Leiden University
Vanya Rakesh is currently enrolled in the LL.M. in Law & Digital Technologies at Leiden University.
The Amicus Interviews: Deborshi Barat on the MALD at Fletchers, legal research & more
The famous collegiality of the Fletcher 'mafia' is a different experience altogether, and one learns a lot from one's peers as well, especially because the range of perspectives, nationalities, professional backgrounds, and world-views is staggering.
The Amicus Interviews: Lennora Crilov on the Penn State LL.M., global recruitments & more
Lennora Crilov graduated from Amity Law School, Noida in 2016 and then enrolled for the LL.M. course at Penn State Law School. She is currently the Head of Department - Academic Mobility and Accreditations at the Narxoz School Law & Public Policy, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The Amicus Interviews: David Busis, 7Sage
"You don’t have to make your admissions reader bang the desk and cry out, “By gad, admit him!” All you have to do is transmit something genuine and illuminate your motivation."
The Amicus Interviews: Malavika Prasad on legal education, “social capital” & much more.
We know that in the name of filtering for students of a certain ability, merit filters out those who could not access the education and social capital that nurtures such ability.
The Amicus Interviews: Shilpi Nanda on the Cambridge LL.M. + Ph.D. at National University of Singapore (Part I)
Law students often believe that a doctoral degree is pursued only to undertake a career in academia or research. However, this is not necessarily true. A PhD teaches you much more than just research and writing.
The Amicus Interviews: Malcolm Mackay, United Employment Lawyers
I get Malcolm Mackay to discuss the future of legal education, and the legal profession as well.
The Amicus Interviews: Vismay Shroff on teaching at GLC-Mumbai, the LL.M. at Duke University & more
If a law school has served you well, you will be a better person along with being a law graduate.
The Amicus Interviews: Desiree Jaeger-Fine Esq., Jaeger-Fine Consulting LLC
Working closely with international LLM graduates in the US, Desiree Jaeger-Fine provides a macro perspective on recruitments in the US legal industry.
The Amicus Interviews: Pallavi Sharma on the MSt. and MPP at Oxford University
Though the MPP was new, I found the programme well-structured, with sufficient exposure opportunities. It was one year, as opposed to most other policy programmes which require a two-year commitment.