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Admissions</h1> <div class="block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title" id="block-system-main"> <div class="block-inner clearfix"> <div class="content clearfix"> <article about="/admissions/sjd-admissions" typeof="foaf:Document" class="node node-page node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-sysadmin odd clearfix" id="node-page-720"> <span property="dc:title" content="S.J.D. Admissions" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content clearfix"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h2><span style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family:aptos,sans-serif; font-size:14.6667px">Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school with two locations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Carlisle and University Park. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025.</span></h2> <hr /> <p><span style="color:#FF0000">The Penn State Law S.J.D. program accepts applications for the fall semester only.  Applications open each academic year on October 15 and close on March 1.  Applications that are not complete by the deadline of March 1 will not be considered.  Admission decisions will be made on or about April 1 for the following fall semester (August) intake.  </span></p> <p>Please see below for the application, process, and requirements. Please direct any specific application-related questions and inquiries to <a href="mailto:llmadmit@pennstatelaw.psu.edu">llmadmit@pennstatelaw.psu.edu</a>.</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p>To be eligible for admission:</p> <ul> <li>An applicant must hold an LL.B. or B.A. in law from a law school outside the U.S. <em>and</em> an LL.M. from <ul> <li>Penn State Law; or</li> <li>Another U.S. ABA-accredited law school; or</li> <li>A foreign university LL.M. degree program, provided that the university maintains academic standards substantially equivalent to Penn State Law for conferral of the LL.M. degree.  </li> </ul> </li> <li>The applicant’s professional objectives and proposed course of study must align with the expertise and capacity of a Penn State Law faculty member who is willing to serve as an S.J.D. Candidate Faculty Advisor. Please review the <a href="/faculty">faculty biography pages</a> <u><em><strong>but do not contact any faculty members before or during the application process. Admitted students will be assigned an available supervisor</strong></em></u>; and </li> <li>The applicant must demonstrate English language proficiency sufficient for the advanced study of law in English. </li> </ul> <h2>Admission Process</h2> <p>For an applicant to be considered for admission, the Penn State Law Admissions Office must receive the following:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Completed Application.</strong> When the application is open, applicants must submit an electronic application through the Law School Admission Council (<a href="https://llm.lsac.org/login/access.aspx?appl=2187L1" target="_blank">LSAC</a>) Document Assembly Service. </li> <li><strong>Transcripts. </strong>Official academic transcripts documenting the applicant’s LL.M. degree and prior law studies (certified translations into English).</li> <li><strong>Proof of English Proficiency.</strong> If applicant has received a J.D. or LL.M. degree from Penn State Law a proof of English proficiency is not required. Otherwise an official TOEFL report is required with a minimum score of 100. The Penn State Law institutional code for the TOEFL test is 2660.  An IELTS score of 7 is also acceptable.   </li> <li><strong>Three letters of recommendation</strong> in English (or certified translations into English) from law faculty/professors/employers, including one from a law professor in the applicant’s country where he/she received a law degree with knowledge of the applicant’s academic achievement and potential for scholarly research and writing.  Each recommender should evaluate the applicant’s capacity for advanced legal research and scholarship and potential for fulfilling the professional objectives for which the applicant seeks the degree (i.e., as a legal academic or in another law-related professional enterprise);</li> <li><strong>A writing sample </strong>in English written entirely by the applicant without assistance, usually in the form of a legal research paper;</li> <li><strong>A brief (5-10 pages) proposal of study in English</strong> in sufficient detail to demonstrate the potential of the applicant to make an original and significant contribution to a particular field of legal scholarship. The proposal should describe the research topic, the research questions to be pursued, and the proposed research methodology;</li> <li><strong>CV/resume in English</strong></li> </ol> <p>The S.J.D. 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