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Designed for well-qualified lawyers with law degrees from other countries, John Marshall’s LLM in U.S. Legal Studies provides foreign lawyer students with a customized course of study to best meet their individual career goals and professional needs

The Two-Year LLM is an intensive LLM program designed to equip ambitious international students and lawyers with the academic, legal, and language skills necessary to succeed in U.S. law school. Through experiencing an innovative blend of legal English, American legal culture and practice, and substantive doctrinal coursework, you will graduate with high competency in both the letter of the law and its application.

The LLM in American Law Program is specifically designed to prepare internationally trained lawyers for the challenge of global practice. In this program, students are fully integrated into BU Law’s JD classes, where they sit side by side with American students being trained in the tradition of US legal education. Students not only learn the substance of US doctrine in virtually any area of interest—intellectual property, international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and alternative dispute resolution, to name only a few—they also learn something equally important: how US lawyers are trained to analyze legal questions and advocate on their client's behalf.

The LL.M. program in U.S. Law offers students the flexibility to develop a curriculum in U.S. law topics that suits their particular needs and interests.

The Master of Laws (LL.M.) is an advanced program of legal study that is customized to the needs of the individual student. LL.M. candidates, mentored by expert faculty, plan a course of study in one of the following concentrations: Law and Technology, Securities Law, or Comparative and International Law. Foreign LL.M. students have the option to pursue a curriculum that helps prepare them for a U.S. bar examination while acquiring a broad understanding of the U.S. common law system.

The Master of Laws-Legal Institutions (LL.M.-LI) degree program is a course-based Master's degree program in law for students who have received a law degree, such as an LL.B., from a university outside of the United States. The LL.M.-LI degree is a program for students who want to learn about American law and common law analysis.

The Health Law, Policy, and Bioethics track creates opportunities for you to: gain practical and theoretical knowledge in the areas of health law, policy, and bioethics, learn about the institutions and structures of healthcare and how they affect the ethical issues that arise in medical and legal practices

If you are a lawyer or law graduate from outside the United States, the American Law for Foreign Lawyers track at IU McKinney School of Law can create the following opportunities for you: gain practical and theoretical knowledge in selected areas of American law, learn the skills of legal research, analysis, and communication essential to understanding and applying American law, strengthen your ability to effectively represent foreign clients in transactions with American entities

In 1973, Edward de Jaegher of Brussels, Belgium, became the first foreign-trained lawyer to earn a Master of Laws, or LL.M., degree at the University of Georgia School of Law. Since then, the law school and its Dean Rusk International Law Center have produced more than 560 LL.M. graduates, with ties to 75 countries and every continent in the world.

If you are an attorney licensed outside of the U.S., or have completed a first degree in law outside of the U.S., the University of California Hastings in San Francisco invites you to apply for a one-year LL.M. degree in U.S. Legal Studies.

The School of Law's LL.M. LOTUS program provides an ideal opportunity for foreign-trained lawyers to study U.S. law at a leading center for international and comparative law. The University of Baltimore School of Law's innovative LL.M. program focusing on the Law of the United States for foreign-trained lawyers provides a great career opportunity in a flexible environment. Graduates meet the eligibility requirements to sit for several bar exams, including Maryland, New York, and Washington, D.C.

The Master of Laws in US Law (LLM) & Master of Comparative Law (MCL) Program is designed to prepare lawyers from other countries to work knowledgeably with lawyers in the United States on questions of common interest arising under either their own or the US legal system.