Do your research thoroughly, read the market carefully, see what kind of scholarships and opportunities you can avail, talk to people, network, collect information and plan ahead. You don’t want to get stuck once you land there and end up going back empty handed, because that would be just very disappointing.
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First Person Accounts: Shouryendu Ray on the LL.M. at UPenn, writing the NY Bar & more
The LL.M. course is an immersive, rigorous programme with a steep learning curve. It doesn’t help that the setting is also unfamiliar. But it is truly an other-worldly experience – a chance for you to make friends with people from all around the world, get exposed to their culture and way of thinking and see things from a very different perspective.
First Person Accounts: Riya P. Raaj on the GPLL.M. at the University of Toronto
Think about the course that calls to you, that you can proudly say you hold a master's degree in. What you can proudly say, not your family and not society. Do an LL.M only if you want to.
First Person Accounts: Arushi Bajpai on an LL.M. in International Criminal Law, University of Kent
Being industrious during your LLM will reap rich dividends after your graduate. Do remember that even before you’ll realise, your LLM will be over, so you won’t have enough time to read everything and grasp all of what is being thrown at you
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.
First Person Accounts: Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj on the LL.M. at Michigan Law
Apart from UMich, I looked at Oxbridge, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago and Berkeley. Of these, I received acceptances from Berkeley and Michigan, while UChicago placed me on their waitlist.
First Person Accounts: Conrad Noronha on the JD at Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School has a reputation for being very competitive, which I am learning is not entirely true. The students out here are extremely driven and hardworking, but many go out of their way to help each other.
First Person Accounts: Shubhi Pandey on the LL.M. at Seoul National University
The main benefit of living in a city such as Seoul is the cultural exchange that one can experience. Seoul has so much to offer. The people are warm and welcoming here. You get a lot of exposure.
The Unbearable Lightness or Not having a plan and being okay with it
I was so enmeshed in publishing more interviews, asking more people what were the steps before and after the LL.M etc that I had lost sight of the fact that one's education is not always a linear process.
First Person Accounts (International): Nur Ben-Hamida on the LL.M. at Glasgow University
The publishing industry is perfect for someone who has studied law, especially Intellectual Property Law, as almost every aspect of publishing is touched in some way by Intellectual Property and governed by law.
First Person Accounts: Tanmay Patnaik on the LL.M. at Fordham Law School
Tanmay Patnaik , Principal Associate at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, on his LL.M. experience at Fordham Law School
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.
First Person Accounts: Anirban Roy Choudhury on the LL.M. at the Institute for Law & Finance, University of Frankfurt
Anirban Roy Choudhury shares his thoughts on the LL.M. at the Institute for Law & Finance, University of Frankfurt, a course he is currently enrolled at.
First Person Accounts: Asmita Singh on the International Dispute Resolution LL.M. at Humboldt University of Berlin
First Person Accounts (FPA’s) are meant to provide a first-hand account of law graduates who have pursued, or are pursuing, a post-graduate course (LL.M. or otherwise) from different universities across the world. In this edition, I speak with Asmita Singh, who is currently enrolled for the LL.M. in International Dispute Resolution at the Humboldt University of … Continue reading First Person Accounts: Asmita Singh on the International Dispute Resolution LL.M. at Humboldt University of Berlin
International students and “cash cows” in Australia
If nothing else though, the episode does act as a welcome reminder of just how important it is to research before enrolling into any course in any country.
First Person Accounts: Deepshi Singh on LSE’s MSc in Media & Communications
A lot of people ask me, Why did you “switch” from Law to Media and I always say, "It is never a switch. I cannot stop being a lawyer."