Jason Vanger, a UVA law student, has published a full report in the Virginia Law Weekly of a recent information session on Virginia Law's longstanding joint J.D.-M.A. Program in Legal History. The session was conducted by UVA professor Charles Barzun, who was himself an alumnus of the program. Here is a taste:
The program is unique among joint degree programs at Virginia Law and elsewhere in that it imposes no additional time or financial burden on law students. Students earn both degrees in the same three years that it would take to earn a J.D., and students pay the same amount in tuition that they would pay for law school alone. The program accomplishes this by counting a number of classes toward both degrees, including required 1L courses like Torts or Constitutional Law, which have substantial historical content in the form of case law. On top of the regular course load for law students, participants will generally take one additional course in the history department for each semester of their 2L and 3L years.
--Dan Ernst
