Single Law degree vs combined law with commerce/economics (1 Viewer)

[bikapika]

Just a quick question guys, although combined law with economics or commerce is my first preference, if i will end up becoming a lawyer or a legal advisor when i graduate, then would i need the bachelor of commerce/economics graduation certificate?

Do you think completing an extra degree along side LLB would actually help you if you dont really plan to become professions like accountant or marketing manager, all you want is to do legal work?

Thanks guys year12 graduates like me will have another 14days to make up our mind : )

 

[jas0nt]

depends if you want to specialise in a specific field in law... if you want to be a pure-lawyer focusing on criminal law then just a straight law degree should be enough.

remember, specialising in an area will put another year into your degree, not to mention being 25% more expensive. you can change degrees anytime throughout your course remember that (guaranteed) although it may be a costly decision.

 

[bikapika]

thx for answering
maybe ill start with a combine degree and transfer to single law if my mind is set

 

[RogueAcademic]

It always looks nice to have an extra degree in your CV. And having two degrees gives you more career options later.

 

[Evilo]

just another 2 years added onto your education...

 

[banco55]

Yeah you should do it. Will greatly expand your career options. Just don't do arts/law.

 

[RogueAcademic]

Just don't do arts/law.

Why not?

 

[Evilo]

Why not?

everyone does it. Its like the "fashion" of anu.

 

[RogueAcademic]

I see.

 

[banco55]

Why not?

I'd suggest that generarlly people shouldn't do arts/law because it adds few marketable skills to your degree while adding 2 years to your degree and HECS. Although I'd make an exception for people studying modern languages. Even if you are interested in somethiing like english or political science you'd probably learn as much from wide, personal reading in that subject as you would from doing the degree. I don't think anyone learns much in arts tutorials where there are 15 people (only half will have done the reading, 2 will be annoying mature age students who think their age gives them some special insight and 2 will be loudmoth fucks who don't really know much and meanwhile the tutor is bored shitless and just wants it to end).

 

[Evilo]

I chose Science/Law because the two areas interested me, though at the time I had no clue how I wanted to use them. Because my degrees are so different from one another, each kind of offers me a break from the other - so for example sometimes sitting in a four hour physiology lab beats reading contract law and sometimes writing an essay on Dworkin beats Psychology's stupid SPSS.

I think my point was that I reckon straight law would be hard/dry/boring, but if you disagree or if you're up for that, then go for it.

but won't you have to do the "boring" law courses anyway? I mean the course will be washed down with the science classes making it interesting, but at the end of the day you would have to do the same courses as a full law student?

 

[Epic_Postings]

I wasn't aware of ANU offering single law degrees to undergraduates...

 

[Republican]

Australians are so lucky being able to do undergraduate law.

 

[Epic_Postings]

agreed ^ ^

 

[Evilo]

I do actually like both degrees, I'm not solely using Science to "water down" Law lol =)

lol yeah i know the feeling. I'm doing geology, but yeah i did a bit of psyc and computer science to mix it up a bit - otherwise id go crazy! :s lol

 

[banco55]

Australians are so lucky being able to do undergraduate law.

very true. The poor bastards in the US graduate with heaps of debt and lots of "lost" years where they could have been earning money.

 

[Epic_Postings]

Although one thing they have over us is that our undergraduate Australian law degrees won't be deemed as high quality as their Ivy law degrees

 

[jas0nt]

I wasn't aware of ANU offering single law degrees to undergraduates...

always has, always will. there aren't any programs existing in which one component is only available when coupled with another (i.e. bachelor of X can only be done with bachelor of Y)

 

[bikapika]

thx guys lol i see what you meant
maybe ill start with a b.com/llb or b.econ/llb to keep my options open and then drop one of b.com/b.econn/llb when i decide on my career path

 

[jas0nt]

thx guys lol i see what you meant
maybe ill start with a b.com/llb or b.econ/llb to keep my options open and then drop one of b.com/b.econn/llb when i decide on my career path

do bcomm/blaw... you'll pickup the chicks that way

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