Higher Education and Juris Doctor

Students who successfully complete a program at BSL will be able to demonstrate:

Legal and Law-Related Knowledge

Knowledge of specific areas or aspects of substantive law, legal theory, or legal procedure

Example: Acquiring knowledge of domestic / comparative / international / transnational legal doctrine and processes, jurisprudence, knowledge of legal theory, and statutory / regulatory law and processes.

Analysis and Decision-Making

Understand and develop solutions to legal problems

Example: Analyzing, being creative or innovative, exercising practical judgment, problem solving, and reasoning.

Policy Evaluation

Draw connections between specific legal issues and policy contexts or values

Example: Understanding or evaluating specific situations in light of fundamental principles and values such as equality, fairness, liberty, justice, or analytical orientations such as economics, public safety, or public policy.

Professional Identity

Responsibilities of lawyers to their profession and society

Example: Demonstrating awareness of professional commitments to continued learning, community involvement and service, diligence, engagement, ethics, honesty, integrity, and dedication.

Writing

Written professional communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Creating written texts for different audiences and purposes, advocating, negotiating, analyzing, memorializing transactions, or disseminating knowledge.

Oral Communication

Using oral communication for a variety of professional purposes

Example: Advising, advocating, counseling clients, influencing, listening, presenting information, speaking for professional purposes.

Information Gathering and Processing

Obtaining and assessing information about facts, law, procedure, and people

Example: Fact finding, interviewing, researching, and sorting known information so as to identify what is important for particular purposes.

Interpersonal Perspectives

Emotionally intelligent engagement, team building, collaboration, cooperation, and leadership

Example: Seeing the world through the eyes of others, resolving conflicts, empathizing, evaluating, mentoring, organizing and managing others.

Client and Practice Management

Skills required to ethically and effectively manage ethical, professional and business aspects of the legal profession

Example: Building relationships with clients, members of the legal profession, and others, handling stress, identifying client or community needs, organizing one's own work, using technology and electronic media.

Ph.D. in Higher Education

• Passing Part I and Part II of the comprehensive exams
• Defending the dissertation – graduated

Graduates of the law school typically work as attorneys. A law degree is a prerequisite for admission to the bar in most states, and bar admission is required to engage in the practice of law. Law school graduates work in private law firms, business, government, nonprofit, and academic settings.

1. Review Admission Requirements – Review requirements for advanced degree and certificate program applicants. Be sure to check your department of interest as well because departmental requirements vary. Please note that only degree-seeking students are eligible for I-20/student visas and graduate assistantships. Certificate programs are not considered degree-seeking. However, with proper approval students may be enrolled concurrently in both degree and certificate programs.
2. Application Procedures – To apply to the Graduate College, submit the following admission materials for consideration:
   • A completed application. Complete the application online.
   • A nonrefundable admission application fee of $95, payable online by credit card or by check/money order, to the Board of Regents, UNLV.
     
     *Note: Applications and materials will not be processed until the application fee is received. Applicants to any UNLV graduate program must pay the admission application evaluation fee for each application filed. Denied applicants, who later seek admission to the same or other UNLV degree program, are required to pay an additional application fee.
3. Additional Graduate College Application Materials – If needed, send any additional Graduate College admission materials (for example: your admission receipt with your check payment; your transcripts if you did not upload them into your online application; or your official transcripts upon admission; etc.) to:

   Office of Admissions

   University of Nevada, Las Vegas
   Mail Stop: 1021
   4505 S. Maryland Pkwy.
   Las Vegas, NV 89154

4. Additional Materials for your Department & Degree Program Application – Submit any additional department-required admission materials by uploading them into your online application. Please check with your graduate program of interest and refer to the application checklist on the Home tab of your Grad Rebel Gateway account in order to determine their specific admission requirements prior to submitting your online application.
5. Financial Certification Requirement – Submit Financial Certification form and Bank Letter to the Graduate College.
   Before an I-20 can be issued, all international students must submit a completed Financial Certification form and bank letter. Even if you anticipate receiving a Graduate Assistantship, you must submit the Financial Certification form and bank letter.
   • Confidential Financial Certification