November 27, 2013

Boston College, USA, launches Sorbonne J.D./LL.M. for US Law Students

Boston College, USA, announced to launch the Sorbonne JD/LLM Program, a co-organized postgraduate degree program with the Sorbonne Law School of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.

As part of the Boston College Law School Global Practice Program (GPP), the aim of new Sorbonne Program, taught in French, is "to offer law students and future lawyers a large variety of elective courses in their fields of interest, in-depth acquaintance with the intricacies of French and European Law and a new perspective on current global legal issues while learning in the best of the French academic tradition and Civil Law methodological techniques. Depending on student interest and availability, an internship in the spring in a French legal placement is also a possibility."

Upon completion of all requirements at the end of their third year, Boston College J.D. students who enroll in the Sorbonne Program will receive both the Boston College Law J.D. degree and the Paris I LL.M. Students may register for an additional year in Paris and join the Master I and or in some cases the Master II degrees in Law.

The program is open to Boston College law students who are fluent in French (spoken and written) and who have completed four semesters in residence at Boston College Law School. In addition, students must complete all Boston College Law School graduation requirements by the end of their second year of J.D. studies.