If you come across someone with a law degree, you'll know about it. For some reason, having a law degree seems to apply automatic bragging rights, and those with one love to tell you about it. In fairness, this probably stems from the fact that half of the degree is in Latin or some other medieval language that sounds like something out of Game of Thrones. But don't let this put you off, your childhood game of making up a language with your friends will come true if you study law. You will become a part of the mystical legal language club that only those with law degrees will understand, just watch the confusion on your parents face unfold when you start blurting out terms like 'Ignorantia juris non excusat' (ignorance of the law does not excuse).
But really, aside from the jokes, law is a multi-faceted degree which can provide a great foundation for a vast number of career paths. I would also argue that it is one of the few degrees that actually teaches you genuine life skills that you will use. Studying law is far from learning pythagoras theorem in maths - sounds cool to say you can do it, but generally isn't much use to real life after school. If you like what you've read so far, keep going to discover why law is such a useful degree, why I chose to study law and how I picked the right university for me with some general tips.
Why is law such a useful degree to study?
A lot of people think that you study law because you want to go into practise as a solicitor or barrister. This is a real misconception as a law degree is widely respected and can provide a great basis for a variety of careers.
For example, studying law gifts you with invaluable transferable skills including: critical thinking, problem solving, analytical skills and logical reasoning. As stated on the Trinity College, Cambridge website, a law degree can enable you to become:
a successful producer, politician, manager, journalist, diplomat or police officer; a law degree equips you for almost any profession that requires intellectual strength combined with a practical approach to the world.
The possibilities really are endless, and as I said before, a law degree also enables you to gain an abundance of real-life skills as well as a fancy sounding degree. Be prepared, if you study law, you will be the person everyone asks to draft 'clever sounding' emails, and your family will expect you to be able to draft all sorts of legal documents within the first month of your first term. But really, the point is - studying law doesn't just set you up for a career in a scratchy wig (unless you want to of course).
Why did I choose to study law?
Not to sound like a cliche, but law really was the career that resonated to me above all others from a fairly young age. No, I didn't know I wanted to be a solicitor 'from the day I was born', because who does? (Top tip, never say that in an application or an interview because it's just not true, you were busy being a baby and nothing else, it seems disingenuous).
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