LLB, Govnt and law, BBA(law)

1) GLaw offers more focus on politics, while LLB offers more focus on law. For example, GLaw students don't take Commercial law, jurisprudence and Chinese law unless they do the 4th and 5th year (which strictly speaking belongs to LLB not GLaw).

Those who want to focus on law would prefer LLB. Especially those who are certain that they want to become a lawyer:

For LLB, the route is: 4 years LLB + 1 year PCLL + 2 years
traineeship/1year pupilage--> lawyer after 6 or 7 years



For BLaw/GLaw, the route is: 3 years GLaw/BLaw + 2 years LLB + 1 year
PCLL + 2 years traineeship/1 year pupilage-->lawyer after 7 or 8 years


PCLL is the postgraduate certificate in laws - the pre-requisite for starting your training as a trainee solicitor or pupilage

Hence:
* If you are certain you want to pursue a legal career, LLB is the preferable choice since it's the quickest route available to you to enter the profession.
* Law firms have no special preference for double degree students - the politics courses you take for GLaw are of no interest to them.
* If you are not certain you want to pursue a legal career, you may want to study GLaw since you will acquire a broader knowledge base. As far as I know, GLaw is popular among those who wish to work for the government as an AO.

2) a mixture of law and politics courses, for details see:
http://www3.hku.hk/ppaweb/content.php?name=govlaw.htm

3) In the legal profession, graduates from the 3 courses will have similar job prospects (provided that GLaw and BLaw students take their 4th and 5th year)

If you want to pursue a career in banking, BLaw would be helpful. If you want to pursue a career in the government, GLaw would be helpful.

However, if you can afford it, it's preferable to study law overseas.


2010-04-18 12:58:27 補充：
4) Will be very hard. There is certainly some time left, but you will need good time management.

2010-04-18 12:59:14 補充：
5) A critical mind and a logical head.

A good memory would help you but is certainly not indispensable. You can never remember all the law.

2010-04-18 12:59:25 補充：
6) An exchange programme is offered by HKU centrally to all students of all discipline. It's nice to go on exchange, but academically it doesn't give you much. It's got more to do with broadening your horizon.

2010-04-18 13:01:18 補充：
001 please stop misleading people. Our friend here is trying to make an important decision

need to work for experience on the other 2 to take Bar exam.?You cannot go higher than LLB academically? get a life?!

2010-04-19 22:01:41 補充：
My friend, don't doubt others when you have no knowledge of the profession.

If you are not aware, the LLM (Master of Laws) is offered in unis across the world.

2010-04-19 22:02:39 補充：
For someone who don't even know of the PCLL, I advice you to do some research before answering others

2010-04-19 22:05:11 補充：
If I am a lawyer, I certainly would be happy to do without a client like you. Just an insight into the legal profession: the most profitable law firms deal with big corporate clients and do not rely on meager income from serving some netizens who speaks nonsense on the web

2010-04-20 18:22:54 補充：
Alternatively, if one would like to pursue further legal studies after LLB, Oxford and Cambridge offers the BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law), which is offered as a postgraduate degree to common law LLB graduates.

1.) That is becase LLB is a Bar Ready Professional Degree.........
You can be take the Bar exam once you finish your LLB, you need to work for experience on the other 2 to take Bar exam.

Think of it like a Doctorate of Law (Which does not appear in paper for some reason.) You cannot go higher than LLB academically.

2.) Government Part should be about Governmental Policy and How the Government work. Not having been studied in HK, i have no idea...

3.)
LLB + Bar Exam = Barrister
Law Degree = Solicitor + Years of experience + Bar exam = Barrister
Governmental + Law = Politician.......

4.) There WILL BE time off, but not much, you may also need to hang you head around Law Library quite Often, there are a lot of law book to study and a lot of case to remember.

5.) A classmate of my Cousin, Whose studying Law degree in US Naval Academy once told me, you must have OCD to study Law, Acturial and Medical Degree......

That translate to you need eidetic memory to complete you degree.You need to be able to remember EVERYTHING you see and notice any different when you see it

6.) NO idea...........


2010-04-19 09:04:29 補充：
Hmm intersting.

LLB is a "Terminal" degree. I would REALLY like to see what you continue further study if you have a LLB.

Do bear in mind, Doctorate of Law and LLB (Juris Doctor) is 2 different things

2010-04-19 09:05:15 補充：
If you said you are a lawyer, then you must bhe a lousy one, remaind me to not contact you when i was in legal trouble