Abstract
This chapter provides an analytically critical and integrated conclusion. It brings together the main arguments in the preceding chapters and reflects on the differences in the structure and standing of the JSD or SJD degree programs and the Ph.D. in law program. This chapter also offers perspectives on the value of a higher doctorate, as a rare qualification that stands authoritatively at the apex and pinnacle of the echelon of all doctorates.
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Notes
- 1.
Cf. Park (2007), pp. 2–3.
- 2.
See Jones (2018), p. 816.
- 3.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 4.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 5.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 6.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 7.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 8.
See Ibid., p. 817.
- 9.
See Ibid., pp. 814–825.
- 10.
See Piscopo (Online), “Law students want to retain ‘Dr’ title: Changes to the law course will remove the Doctorate of Laws (LLD) title”.
- 11.
See University of Malta, Faculty of Laws (2003).
- 12.
See Piscopo (Online), “Law students want to retain ‘Dr’ title: Changes to the law course will remove the Doctorate of Laws (LLD) title”.
- 13.
See Malta (2017).
- 14.
See Ibid.
- 15.
Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (Online), “Ph.D. related information”.
- 16.
National Law School of India University (Online), “Ph.D. in Law”.
- 17.
National Law School of India University (Online), “Doctor of Laws”.
- 18.
See below.
- 19.
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Online), “The path to a professorship: qualifications for a university professorship.
- 20.
University of the West Indies (Online), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, “Law—MPhil/Ph.D.”
- 21.
University of Philippines (Online), “Juris Doctor (JD) Program”.
- 22.
Ibid.
- 23.
See Makerere University School of Law (Online), Academic Programmes: Doctor of Laws (LLD).
- 24.
See below.
- 25.
See Whitlock and Smiley (2008).
- 26.
See Ibid.
- 27.
See Ibid.
- 28.
See Ibid.
- 29.
Duff (2012), “Germany goes for the doctor on our Ph.D.s”.
- 30.
See Ibid.
- 31.
As evidenced from several discussions held between 1995 and 2015 with colleagues in academia across the UK, Africa and North America.
- 32.
And arguably at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- 33.
Cf. UNESCO Recommendation on the Recognition of Studies and Qualifications in Higher Education of 1993; and, the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel of 1997.
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