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2 unusual facts about Master of Laws


Herbert J. Wallenstein

Following the war, he went back to NYU Law School where he received his Master of Laws in 1951 on the GI Bill.

Simon van Slingelandt

Simon van Slingelandt, a Master of Laws, was married to Susanna de Wildt (1666-1722) and Johanna Margaretha van Coesvelt, his housemaid (1726-1736)


Abdul Tejan-Cole

He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) Degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, a Master of Laws from University College London and a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from the University Institute of European Studies.

Arthur F. Lederle

Born in Leland, Michigan, Lederle graduated from Eastern Michigan College in 1909, and received an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1915, an LL.M. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1923, and an LL.D. from Wayne State University in 1952.

Arturo Brion

He also earned a Master of Laws, with concentration in Labor and Employment Law, from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada, in 1994.

Australian Army Legal Corps

Promotion and level of pay is determined by experience as well as recognised levels of legal competency, which are closely associated with obtaining post-graduate qualifications, such as the Master of Laws specialising in military law through the Australian National University.

Bachelor of Civil Law

In Oxford, the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) is a taught postgraduate degree in English law, occupying a similar position as the Master of Laws (LLM) programmes of other British universities, but specifically for common law degree holders.

Bella Angara

As a scholarship grantee for the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program, she pursued her master's degree at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1963.

Carlos Mendoza Davis

He entered graduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States and received a Master of Laws (LLM) in 1995 with a research paper entitled The violation of human rights in third world countries as a reason for the imposition of economic sanctions. In 2002, he won a Chevening Scholarship from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, provided by the British Council.

Ho Peng Kee

Ho had his early education at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and National Junior College, before going on to earn a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the National University of Singapore, and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School.

Juan Ponce Enrile

As a scholar at the Harvard Law School, he earned a Master of Laws degree with specialized training in international tax law.

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from University of Nairobi and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Civil Liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Paul McHugh

He graduated LL.B.(Hons I) from Victoria University of Wellington, LLM (Saskatchewan), and obtained his PhD at Cambridge with his dissertation "The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law" (which was awarded a Yorke Prize in 1988).

Peter Shivute

After working in now independent Namibia for four years he returned to the UK to complete the LL.M from University of Warwick in 1996.

Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie

Brodie grew up in Alloa, Clackmannanshire and was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire, and studied the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh (LL.B.) and the School of Law of the University of Virginia in the United States (LL.M.).

Sonny Angara

He continued his post-graduate legal studies and finished his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 2003.

Wale Babalakin

In 1982, Wale Babalakin was one of only three Africans admitted into Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University for the pioneer Master of Laws Degree.


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Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

David McGuinty

He earned a Diploma in Agriculture from the Kemptville College of Agriculture, a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Ottawa, specialized diplomas in Civil and Comparative Law at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Ottawa, and finally a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

E. Michael McCann

He earned a Master of Laws (LLM) from the Harvard University Law School and has honorary degrees from Marquette University and Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Laila Macharia

In 1995, Macharia earned a Bachelor of Laws (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M) from the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Marc Lalonde

Lalonde was born in Île Perrot, Quebec and obtained a Master of Laws degree from the Université de Montréal, a Master's degree from Oxford University, and a Diplôme d'études supérieures en droit (D.E.S.D) from the University of Ottawa.

Michael Sukkar

He attended Aquinas College as his secondary school, and then went on to complete a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University, and later went on to complete a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne.

Vera Begić

Vera has achieved the Master of Laws degree; she can communicate in fluent English and can also speak Russian, Hungarian and Italian.