For law professionals: What is a good major to choose when planning on going into law?

Question

I heard prelaw might not be the best idea, but what would be better?

Answer 1

lots of schools dont even offer 'prelaw' but generally speaking lots of people who want to become lawyers choose to major in political science. since there is so much law involved in politics you inherently learn a lot about it. also political science majors can take courses like constitutional law, statistics, international law, philosophy, history (specialized topics), all of which create a well rounded student for law school. Also since so many political science students do want to attend law school you would be surrounded by like minded people who are more likely to become your future colleagues.
I suggest asking a student counselor for an overview of a political science major. They should have a list of required courses and electives and i bet if your interested in law, you'll find you're very interested in the courses for political science.
good luck

Answer 2

I'm not a prelaw student or a law professional, but I do know that you can be any major you want before law school. Common pre-law majors are History, Political Science, Criminal Justice, Psychology, and Communications. Do whatever major you enjoy most.

I would think that, if you could handle the rigors of the classes, a science or technology degree would help you stand out in the pack of law school applicants who have backgrounds in one of the above.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Whatever will get you the best GPA. A close, secondary consideration is whichever major is related to the field of law you're interested in (or just the field in general).

Don't pick pre-law (if a school has such a program) simply because you want to get into law school in general. Law schools know poly sci and history (traditional choices) are easy majors and your application will be marked accordingly. Same goes for those with an actual "pre-law" major. However, with the pre-law major, law schools don't like them cuz they tend to have to retrain those students from whatever they learned in undergrad. That's harder than training a blank mind. So, you can actually get dinged for being a "pre-law" major which is worse than them simply knowing you had an easy major (cuz an A is still an A).

Answer 4

Any undergrad. program -- any major will qualify as "pre-law". The major objective is taking a degree in a subject area that you like -- and can get very good grades in. Many law schools will require that you have at least a B+ average -- to an A- average just to stand a chance of being considered. In addition the LSAT will be required if you are going to go to law school in North America.

If you want to save a huge amount of time and money - you can do an undergraduate degree in Law in the U.K for example (where no LSAT is required). This degree will usually take you 4 yrs to compete. Many states will require you to take an LLM (masters in Law) if you wish to practice in the U.S. The total time period will be about 5 years, as opposed to 7 yrs. You can also look at other countries that have common law jurisdictions -- such as Australia.

The advantage of doing the above, is that you will save time, money as well as make yourself look more interesting to employers -- as opposed to someone who went to school in the U.S.

Answer 5

What's most important is that you do really well in college.

Fields that relate to law are in the social sciences such as sociology, criminal justice, political science.

However, depending on the type of law you want to practice, other majors may work better. For example, if you are interested in a technical or scientific area within law (e.g. patent law) then a technical degree could be to your benefit (e.g. engineering, computer science).

Answer 6

Law

Answer 7

Business law is pretty big. My cousin went into that, and he seems to be doing alright.