R****d
发帖数: 309 | 1 Congrats on your admission. Just a word of caution on the job market if you
are going for LLM instead of JD.
HLS has more than 80% foreign students in its LLM program (130 or so students
during my time). All American/Puerto Rican LLMs are tax LLMs. Back in 97,
there was a big uproar event on campus because no law firms were recruiting
foreign LLMs at all, and it was a boom year. Here is the reason. JD is seen as
a practioner's degree and foreign LLM an academic degree. A domestic tax LLM
coupled | y*****n
发帖数: 154 | 2 Retard, thanks a lot for your kind words.
我不是去读JD,录取我的是哈佛的LLM in International Taxation.
当然我也知道要在美国的话是读JD好,以后择业范围大.
但有这么几点理由促使我选择LLM:
1、我已经花了那么多年在legal study上了,实在不愿意再花个三年
时间去读个JD。对law没有那么多commitment,也没有真正决定好将来
倒底要做什么。没准三十岁以后会从professional转到其它行业，这样
的话，花三年时间读JD对我的意义有多大呢？
2、我的工作经验就是在tax这一块的。这和传统的legal practice并不
完全相同，比如IP,corporate,trade,etc... 读JD的话要从最基本的
constitutional law, civil law, criminal law开始读起，对我来说
意义实在不大。因为tax其实是law, accounting, and business的结合，
那些传统的法律领域离我需要的expertise太远了。你也提到了，tax LLM
和
【在 R****d 的大作中提到】
: Congrats on your admission. Just a word of caution on the job market if you
: are going for LLM instead of JD.
: HLS has more than 80% foreign students in its LLM program (130 or so students
: during my time). All American/Puerto Rican LLMs are tax LLMs. Back in 97,
: there was a big uproar event on campus because no law firms were recruiting
: foreign LLMs at all, and it was a boom year. Here is the reason. JD is seen as
: a practioner's degree and foreign LLM an academic degree. A domestic tax LLM
: coupled
| y*****n
发帖数: 154 | 3 Thanks for your reminding. I know exactly what it looks like. But as I told
you just now -
Firstly, I'm not determined to settle down in US yet. However gloomy the
future market seems, to land a job in US is by no means my eventual purpose to
go for study at Harvard. If I could find one, fine; if not, there is no reason
to believe that I won't get a promising future elsewhere.
Secondly, tax is very different from other legal practice area. Actually most
tax consultants/advisors work at accountin
【在 R****d 的大作中提到】
: Congrats on your admission. Just a word of caution on the job market if you
: are going for LLM instead of JD.
: HLS has more than 80% foreign students in its LLM program (130 or so students
: during my time). All American/Puerto Rican LLMs are tax LLMs. Back in 97,
: there was a big uproar event on campus because no law firms were recruiting
: foreign LLMs at all, and it was a boom year. Here is the reason. JD is seen as
: a practioner's degree and foreign LLM an academic degree. A domestic tax LLM
: coupled
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