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
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
Doctorate
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A doctorate or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi.
Juris Doctor
…allow an accredited JD degree to be issued in less than two years of law school studies. In the United States, the JD has the academic standing of a professional doctorate (in contrast to a research doctorate), and is described as a "doctor's degree – professional practice" by the United States Department of Education's…
Title page of the thesis presented by Claude Bernard to obtain his Doctor of Medicine degree (1843)
Man and woman wearing Durham and Glasgow PhD gowns, respectively
American academic doctors gather before the commencement exercises at Brigham Young University (April 2008). The American code for academic dress identifies academic doctors with three bands of velvet on the sleeve of the doctoral gown.
The ancient ceremony of bestowing Complutense's doctoral biretta