I wonder if anybody has applied to a SJD program, with or without having previously completed a LL.M. In case someone did apply, may I ask where and why? Wish you all the best of luck with your application(s)

Hi:

I am in the process of applying to several SJD programs. What would you like to know?

May I ask you whether you have completed your LL.M already, or you decided to apply directly to the SJD program?
I'm very likely to apply to Fordham, GWU and perhaps a couple more. Where have you applied (if you want to share this info, of course)?

Wish you the best of luck with your applications

Thank you. I completed my LLM at Northwestern University. I am applying to do the SJD at Duke, Cornell, UCLA, Emory, Fordham, Upenn and Georgetown. I thought these are all great schools that also provide funding. I hope this is helpful.

we might know each other. I graduated from Northwestern this May...

Wow...That's a small world. I am sure we know each other. Did you do the general LLM? Did you do the LLM Kellogg? What is your name?

I already have an LLM from NYU (a few years ago) and applied to the SPILS in Stanford, which is the prerequisite for their SJD. This is the only law school that I applied to, so it is an all or nothing thing for me. I believe I have a good chance for admission because of my professional and academic background, but the financing is a big question mark. Hopefully my research proposal will be sexy enough to entice them!

Thank you. I completed my LLM at Northwestern University. I am applying to do the SJD at Duke, Cornell, UCLA, Emory, Fordham, Upenn and Georgetown. I thought these are all great schools that also provide funding. I hope this is helpful.

have you look at their websites? You will find they do offer an SJD programme.

have you look at their websites? You will find they do offer an SJD programme.

Depends where you want to teach..there is a market for eveything...you just need to go about and find it..

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So many SJD, JSD, what for? There are no job market in teaching field.

Thank you. I completed my LLM at Northwestern University. I am applying to do the SJD at Duke, Cornell, UCLA, Emory, Fordham, Upenn and Georgetown. I thought these are all great schools that also provide funding. I hope this is helpful.

I guess location is a factor to hold into account too. Studying at Fordham or GWU (as well as at many other school located in DC or NYC) will sharply ease job-hunting...besides, in my mind, studying a SJD (especially after you're done with your LL.M. as in my case) is almost only research and more research. I honestly don't think a program such as a SJD may be ranked the same way of a JD or even LLM...these are just free thoughts of course...
Best of luck to all

Increase job hunting on the location? I doubt it

If you are doing an SJD I dare to ask if you want to be a Professor? Recruitment for law Professors in the US is very specific and starts with online CV submissions to most law schools in the US.

As far as I remember if you are interesting to them there is then an "event" where candidates are interviewed? So I don't think location matters. Now if you say you want to get a job with one of the schools in those geographical areas that is a different story!

Becoming a professor is one of the options that I'm considering. I guess I'm more likely to teach law somewhere in my home country rather than in the US, although I'd prefer the latter to the former option. My studies and career ambitions aim at international organizations and diplomacy, therefore I guess location does matter, at least in my case. I loved studying my LL.M. in Chicago, but that's not the place to be for a certain type of jobs

If you want to teach in the US, a PhD is a better option than a SJD. If you look at some law faculties they advertise the number of law staff with a PhDs. The downside of a US PhD is the time factor compared to an SJD.

I do agree, but please remember that there's no Ph.D. in law taught in the US, unless you want to study international (public) law as part of the broader spectrum of international relations. the SJD is currently the highest degree in law, thus it all comes to what do you intend to teach upon completion of your studies...