Legal Studies, Bachelor of Science

St. John's University

Legal studies is for students who are interested in law, for students who are interested in working in law after college and for students who are interested in attending law school. The legal studies program teaches foundational skills in the practice of law: close reading of legal texts legal research legal writing and legal analysis. And, legal studies students take elective courses in many different substantive areas of law, from criminal law to corporate law and many areas in between. Graduates of the legal studies program have gone on to law school, have gone on to graduate school and have gone on to work in many different areas of the law-from local law offices, to legal aid offices, to prosecutor’s offices, to the court system, to corporate law departments, to some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world.

The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies