Bachelor of Laws
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A Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree
University of Pretoria Faculty of Law
Juris Doctor
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A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law, is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law. In the United States and the Philippines, it is
Bachelor of Laws
…Malawi, and United Kingdom. In the United States, the Bachelor of Laws was the primary law degree until the 1960s, when it was phased out in favor of the Juris Doctor; Canada followed suit in the early 21st century. The first academic degrees were all law degrees in medieval universities, and the first law degrees…
Juris Doctor diploma from Columbia Law School
The Inns of Court of London served as a professional school for lawyers in England.
Joseph Story, United States Supreme Court Justice, lecturer of law at Harvard and proponent of the "scientific study of law"
A Juris Doctor conferred by Suffolk Law School