Top Tier US Universities VS London School of Economics
Dear All,
this post to find suggestions and advises on LL.M. program I should attend for 2009-2010.
At this stage, I received an offer letter from London School of Economics and Northwestern University / Kellogg and I am waiting a reply from HLS, YLS, SLS, NYU, Cornell and UC Berkeley.
Assuming that I have only LSE and NU/Kellogg offers, I will not be sure to go to the US, due to the scary tuition fee of NU/Kellogg program...Somebody knows if it is worth $62,000??? On the other hand LSE has an highest reputation, maybe greater that Northwestern University...and considering that LSE tuition is about £10,000, for 2010 - 2011 I could spend another year for an MBA.
Considering also that, I am a business lawyer (banking and finance specialist), Italian bar, 2PQE...already working in international law firm (top tier) in Milan.
All my doubts would be dissolved if I will receive an offer by HLS, YLS (and, maybe, SLS).
I look forward to receive your suggestion and advise.
Thank you very much,
FD
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You should go to LSE, if for no other reason then because Sir Francis Drake was a British national hero.
ciao ciao
Ahahah. I know, I know very well Sir Francis Drake!
Anyway LL.M. issue is quite serious; I have to do a decision shortly, since March 20 is the deadline to accept the offer from Northwestern University Law School / Kellogg...
According to a friend of mine, a US lawyer (with a JD at UC Berkeley and with lectures at Cornell), LSE has a terrific reputation in US.
On the other hand, I believe that for an European US universities (and America itself!) have a great great attractiveness...I mean that accademically speaking an LLM in UK (in a top tier University such as LSE and Oxbridge) is equivalent to an LLM in US (in a top tier Univerisity); the great upsize to do LLM in US is related to the fact you live one year in US (as a student), discovering US culture that, as you know, is quite different from European culture.
For an European an LL.M. in US is - first of all - an experience of life.
Having said that, if I could choice between HLS or YLS or SLS and LSE I'll go to US...but at this stage I have serious doubts to spend about 75,000 $ to award an LLM/K at Northwestern and, consequentely, I could choice London to award a specialism LLM, in banking and finance.
Any suggestion?
I honestly think you should go to LSE if Harvard, Stanford or Yale does not open up. Just by name recognition/reputation alone, I think here in the US people regard LSE more highly than Northwestern.
HLS (maybe YLS) otherwise LSE
LSE has great reputation. Also, it is much cheaper to go there.
You are selling yourself short. Hofstra has a great LLM in family law.
It depends if you want to work in the U.S. If you want to continue to work in Europe, go with the cheaper tuition at the LSE. If you want to work here, go to NYU. The NYU LLM program is larger and better than any of the aforementioned schools despite not being an ivy and the LLM's while disliked by the rest of the law school community seem to have a lot of fun.
I am going to accept LSE'offer...so far no news from HLS, YLS and SFL.
LSE's tuition fees will allow to spend another year abroad...(and if this will be the case, after LL.M. I will be going to award an MBA). Another up size seems to be that studying in London could allow to work part-time in my current law firm.
I am quite skeptical to get a job at a US law firm following LLM...due to the current and unprecendented economic crisis and the fact the, to my knowledge, an LLM in most cases is not sufficient, since US law firms give priority to J.D.