Other Schools and Their J.D.

If you hear an interesting opinion from your friend who studies in a school that has recently changed its degree name to J.D., please share.

Here are pages that contain info regarding the change to J.D. of other schools:

Queen's

http://law.queensu.ca/alumni/jdConversionProcess.html

http://queenslaw.blogspot.com/2006/02/ubc-students-vote-for-jd.html


University of British Columbia

http://www.law.ubc.ca/news/2008/sept/09_02_2008_jd.html


Osgoode Hall
(My friend there confirmed that the 2009 graduates can pick either LL.B. or J.D. but Osgoode Hall's website does not seem to change the letters yet!)

http://osgoode.yorku.ca/media2.nsf/58912001c091cdc8852569300055bbf9/6fb85805a130278385257401006bbab2!OpenDocument


University of Western Ontario

http://www.law.uwo.ca/News/Sept_08/JD.html

(Dean Holloway at Western ON explained that "the timing now seems particularly ripe for change. The fact that Melbourne made the change – Melbourne, I think, is one of the best law schools in the common law world – gave me cause to rethink my own position...One of the things we’ve been working to do at Western, in recent years, is to internationalize ourselves. If a degree title will send a signal to the world that we’re part of a global community involved in legal education, then that’s a signal I wouldn’t mind sending.”

http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=635


Melbourne Law School
("The name Juris Doctor is widely used to signify a graduate degree in law. The degree is internationally recognised, and is highly regarded by law firms and other employers of law graduates.")
http://jd.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/about-us/about-the-melbourne-jd


Hong Kong
(The J.D. in Hong Kong is almost identical to the LL.B. and is reserved for graduates of non-law disciplines, but the J.D. is considered to be a graduate-level degree and requires a thesis or dissertation.)