International Degrees for JD Students
JD/LLM
In 1985, Duke became the first law school in the country to offer select American students the opportunity to pursue a dual degree in international and comparative law in three years. This unique dual JD/LLM program has grown stronger as the internationalization of the legal profession increases. Duke has relationships with 14 foreign universities in Australia, China, England, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, and South Africa, among others. A hallmark of the program is the four weeks that students spend at one of the Duke summer institutes: the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law or the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law, in Hong Kong.
JD/LLM students commence their studies in the summer, undertaking part of the regular first-year curriculum with students who are enrolled in the dual JD/MA program. During the remaining six semesters of law study and in a four-week period at one of Duke's summer programs - the Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law and the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law.
JD/Master in Global Business Law
Duke Law School and a consortium of two French universities, l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, offer a dual JD/Master in Global Business Law degree. This dual degree program allows students to receive both the JD and the Master in three years. The Master is a French national law degree that may entitle students to sit for the French Bar exam. Students in the JD/Master program spend two years at Duke and a third year studying in Paris.
