Legal Education System

Legal Education:.

Legal Education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law such as politics or academic or business. It includes:

• First degrees in law, which may be studied at either undergraduate or graduate level depending on the country.
• Vocational courses which prospective lawyers are required to pass in some countries before they may enter practice.
• Higher academic degrees.

Legal Education(General)

In addition to the qualifications required to become a practicing lawyer, legal education also encompasses higher degree, such as doctorates, for more advanced academic study. In many countries other than the United States, law is an undergraduate degree. Graduates of such a program are eligible to become lawyers by passing the country's equivalent of a bar exam. In such countries, graduate programs in law enable students to embark on academic careers or become specialized in a particular area of law.

In the United States, law is a professional doctorate degree known as a Juris Doctor. Students embark upon their legal studies only after completing an undergraduate degree in some other field. The undergraduate degree can be in any field, though most American lawyers hold bachelor's degrees in the humanities and social sciences legal studies at the undergraduate level are available at a few institutions. American law school are usually an autonomous entity within a larger university. 

Faculty of law is another name for a law school or school of law, the terms commonly used in the United States. This term is used in Canada, other Commonwealth countries and the rest of the world. It may be distinguishable from law school in the sense that a faculty is a subdivision of  a university on the same rank with other faculties i.e, faculty of medicine faculty of graduate studies, whereas a law school or school of law may have a more autonomous status within a university or may be totally independent status within a university or may be totally independent of any other post secondary educational institution.

In addition in some countries including Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and some states of Australia, the final stages of  vocational legal education reuired to qualify to practice law are carried out outside the university system. The requirements for qualification as a barrister or as a solicitor are covered in those articles. See advocate for details of the requirements for qualification as an advocate in Scotland.