The undergraduate degree in law is Bachelor of Laws (LLB). In Nigeria and the US, you need a law degree (LLB in Nigeria; JD or LLB in the US) before you can become a lawyer. LLB is spelt LLB or LL.B., never L.L.B.<\/p>\n
But many lawyers do not understand how come or why this strange abbreviation. Well, it comes from Latin. The Latin word lex<\/em> means law<\/em>. The plural of lex<\/em> is legum<\/em>. In Latin, you abbreviate a plural noun by doubling the first letter of the noun. An example is cc<\/em> for copies<\/em>, and pp<\/em> for pages<\/em>; hence LL<\/em> for laws<\/em>. LLB<\/em> stands for Legum Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Laws. Your degree is Bachelor of Laws, not Bachelor in Law, and not Bachelor of Law.<\/p>\n LLM (or more rarely LL.M., but never L.L.M.) stands for Legum Magister<\/em>, Latin for Master of Laws<\/em>.<\/p>\n LLD (or more rarely LL.D., but never L.L.D.) stands for Legum Doctor<\/em>, Latin for Doctor of Laws<\/em>.<\/p>\n The discipline, law, is already expressed inside these degree titles. So you cannot have \u201cLLB in Law\u201d, or \u201cLLM in Law\u201d, or \u201cLLD in Law\u201d- just LLB, LLM, or LLD. Please review your CVs.<\/p>\n JD (Juris Doctor<\/em>) is the American equivalent of an LLB. An SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science, Doctor of the Science of Law, or Scientiae Juridicae Doctor<\/em>) is a research doctorate in law. It originated from the US and is offered in that country as well as in Canada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chinua Asuzu<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The undergraduate degree in law is Bachelor of Laws (LLB). In Nigeria and the US, you need a law degree (LLB in Nigeria; JD or LLB in the US) before you can become a lawyer. LLB is spelt LLB or LL.B., never L.L.B. But many lawyers do not understand how come or why this strange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,134],"tags":[111,183,184,185,114,101,186,187,188,189],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2015-edition","category-the-write-partner","tag-bachelor-of-laws","tag-bl","tag-jd","tag-law-degrees-and-their-meanings","tag-law-students","tag-lawyers","tag-llb-or-ll-b","tag-lld","tag-llm-or-ll-m","tag-undergraduate-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehouseng.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}