What Is a Juris Doctor?

A JD is a doctorate in the higher education system and is the ultimate degree.

JD

American main name

Due to the differences in education systems and college traditions, the names of LL.M. degrees in different universities are different. Generally speaking:

Chinese name	English name	abbreviation	Brief description of general academic system
JD	Doctor of Laws	LL.D.	Colleges with department names directly applied to degree names.
Doctor of Laws	Doctor of Philosophy in Law	Ph.D.	Colleges traditionally named after PhDs as research doctorates are more common in British institutions, including universities in Hong Kong and Australia.
Doctor of Laws	Doctor of Letters in Law	D. Litt.	College under the tradition of naming PhD as a non-science research PhD.
Doctor of Legal Science	Doctor of Judicial Science	SJD / JSD	The name of the doctoral degree created by the American Law School has been found in universities in Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, etc., as the legal education in many places has borrowed from the American law education.

Derivative Issues in American Juris Doctors

Because the first basic degree provided by American law education is called "Juris Doctor (JD)", and the degree is not a doctoral degree, but the translation into Chinese actually means "doctor of law", because Less non-English speaking areas bring trouble. However, since the "Doctor of Law" in multiple languages has been clearly defined as the "Doctor of Law" in the society of the language, many places that encounter this problem have been named for JD. However, before naming JD, many regions or colleges will use the official name of the degree as a hard translation to clearly distinguish between JD and a real JD. For example, SJD is designated as a "Doctor of Legal Science" (see the table above) Although the four names mentioned in the above table are all PhDs in law, hard translation has been agreed in many places.

In Chinese, no matter in mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan, there have been cases where JD and other law PhDs have been translated as "Doctors of Jurisprudence". In order to avoid confusion, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have studied solutions. At present, JD's official Chinese translation is "Professional Law Diploma".

Juris Doctor Degree

The general law doctoral study period is a minimum of three years, which must include a specified number of credit courses, and after passing the Qualifying Examination, students must write a doctoral dissertation and pass a thesis defense to obtain the college's recognition Later, he was able to be awarded a doctorate in law of the college system.

In terms of admission requirements, different institutions have different regulations. The more common is that applicants are required to have a master's degree in law or be a fresh graduate of a master's degree program in law.