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"