Jul 25, 2010 · On top of that, the JD is not even close to as relevant for practice after you've spent 6 years in a PhD program. The above is a paraphrase from a humanities Professor I know who deals with admissions, but I've heard similar stories from grad students as well. ... Taking the patent bar isn’t strictly necessary to get a science advisor job after the PhD but before the JD. It helps to show that you’re serious, and gives you an intro to patent law though. In general, we follow the path u/PhDtoJD described. There’s three of us at the school I go to that all work for the same firm doing the firm’s law ... ... The Ph.D. Admissions Committee also welcomes applications from candidates with a number of years of post-law school experience. Applicants who have spent more than a couple of years after law school in practice should relate their practice experience to their scholarly agenda or use their personal statements to explain their change in direction. 2. ... Jun 25, 2023 · Thanks for the info! Government surely is an alternative career path I may want to consider if academia doesn't work out. But I don't think someone who does separate JD and PhD programs, as opposed to the joint JD/PhD program, is eligible to apply for DOJ Honors, and PhD program is not a eligibility-preserving program anyways. ... ">
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I had a prof who went => Harvard JD => PhD in criminology => crim law professor. Of course, he worked as a federal public defender in D.C. in between the JD and the PhD. Unless you have a lot of money already, I'd recommend practicing after your JD.
I did a JD/PhD in social psychology for similar reasons. Started out wanting to enter academia but on the social sciences side, but I'm much more interested in the law. I did policy research after I finished the JD but was working on my PhD, clerked for a federal judge, now I'm practicing law -- which I NEVER thought I'd do.
Jul 25, 2010 · On top of that, the JD is not even close to as relevant for practice after you've spent 6 years in a PhD program. The above is a paraphrase from a humanities Professor I know who deals with admissions, but I've heard similar stories from grad students as well.
Taking the patent bar isn’t strictly necessary to get a science advisor job after the PhD but before the JD. It helps to show that you’re serious, and gives you an intro to patent law though. In general, we follow the path u/PhDtoJD described. There’s three of us at the school I go to that all work for the same firm doing the firm’s law ...
The Ph.D. Admissions Committee also welcomes applications from candidates with a number of years of post-law school experience. Applicants who have spent more than a couple of years after law school in practice should relate their practice experience to their scholarly agenda or use their personal statements to explain their change in direction. 2.
Jun 25, 2023 · Thanks for the info! Government surely is an alternative career path I may want to consider if academia doesn't work out. But I don't think someone who does separate JD and PhD programs, as opposed to the joint JD/PhD program, is eligible to apply for DOJ Honors, and PhD program is not a eligibility-preserving program anyways.