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The department and the School of Lawoffer a joint degree program leading to
a J.D. and a Ph.D. in history. Columbia has an extraordinary
wealth of resources for the study of law and history, including
leading scholars and teachers in legal history, political
history, the history of state institutions, and related fields. The website of the Columbia
Program in Law and History offers additional details.
The joint degree program
allows students interested in pursuing a career in teaching
and scholarship in a university or law school to pursue an
in-depth, interdisciplinary course of study in legal history.
Students admitted to the joint degree program spend their
first year enrolled in the Law School and their second year
enrolled in the History Department. Thereafter, students enroll
on a semester-by-semester basis in either the Law School or
the History Department, in accordance with a program of study
created by the student and the two institutions.
Students
must fulfill the separate requirements of the two degrees,
except that roughly one semester's worth of course requirements
in History and one semester's course requirements in Law may
be counted jointly toward both degree programs. Many students
will thus be able to complete the J.D. in five semesters,
and to complete their coursework toward the Ph.D. in three
rather than four semesters.
Admission.
Students applying to the joint degree program in legal history
must apply and be admitted separately to both the History Department and to the School of Law. Students should note in their
applications their interest in the joint degree program. Once
a student is admitted to both programs, each must approve a proposed
program of study for the joint degree.
Fellowships.
Students in the joint program will receive the same fellowship
packages offered to other graduate students in history: normally,
either a five-year or a four-year fellowship that includes
tuition, fees, and a stipend. Students will be eligible for
financial aid from the School of Law on the same basis as regular
J.D. students. In addition, the School of Law will provide students
with approved programs of study a Legal History Fellowship
stipend during semesters of residency at the School. The School of Law recognizes that students considering careers as
scholars and teachers may face greater financial constraints
than many students in the regular J.D. program. Accordingly,
the School will provide loan repayment assistance consistent
with the Law School's Loan Repayment Assistance Plan ("LRAP")
to joint degree students in the legal history program who
graduate from the law school and take on full-time work in
scholarship or teaching.
More
Information. For more information about the joint
degree program in legal history, contact the history department
chair or John Witt, Professor of Law and History, Columbia Law
School, 435 West 116th Street, New York, New York 10027, jwitt@law.columbia.edu,
telephone 212-854-0076.
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