just saw this on the CNA website sidebar! didn't know about the juris doctor degree offered at SMU! hahaha! i think i must be mad to be even considering this after my degree! as if 5 years isn't enough. i still want to do another 2-3 years to become a lawyer. haha! am i nuts or what?

anw the course curriculum actually looks quite interesting and its the full law degree! but it's blardy expensive! $60000! ok who am i to complain about expensive school fees?!

List of Law Core Courses

1. Commercial Conflict of Laws
2. Comparative Legal Systems
3. Constitutional & Administrative Law (1.5 course unit)
4. Contract Law 1
5. Contract Law 2
6. Corporate Law
7. Criminal Law (1.5 course unit)
8. Economic Analysis of Law
9. Ethics & Social Responsibility
10. Law & Regulation
11. Law of Business Organisations
12. Law of Equity & Trusts (1.5 course unit)
13. Law of Evidence & Civil Procedure (1.5 course unit)
14. Law of Property (1.5 course unit)
15. Law of Torts (1.5 course unit)
16. Legal Research & Writing
17. Legal System, Legal Method & Analysis
18. Legal Theory & Philosophy

List of Law Electives (choose 4*)

1. Banking Law
2. Biotechnology & the Law
3. Chinese Contract Law
4. Chinese Foreign Investment Law
5. Competition Law
6. Complex Legal Cases
7. Corporate Crime
8. Financial & Securities Regulation
9. Information Technology & the Law
10. Insolvency Law
11. Insurance Law
12. Intellectual Property Law
13. International Commercial Arbitration
14. Law of International Trade
15. Law of Privacy and Confidentiality
16. Negotiation & Mediation for Lawyers
17. Public International Law
18. Tax Law
19. Transportation Law
20. WTO Law
21. Directed Research

quite cool actually. bahhhh i shall stick to being a doctor. maybe when im bored next time will i switch to perhaps doing medico-legal stuff.