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How Law PhD Programs Can Take Your Career to the Next Level


by SMC Admin
26.01.2025

Whether you are just starting out in your law career, or seeking to further your skills by tackling a degree in law school, pursuing studies in law can have immense positive results for your career.

Studying a law doctoral degree with Signum Magnum College will allow you to continue enhancing the skills you began building during your bachelor’s degree. Combining research with practice, the program is specifically designed for high achieving professionals who want to advance their skills.

If you’re still browsing for your dream program, take a look at Signum Magnum College’s other graduate programs for inspiration.

Do you want to complete a law degree? Read on to see how it could take your legal practice or education to the next level.

Why Are PhD Programs Worth Studying?

You Can Enhance Your Skill Set

If you’re a skilled professional, a PhD can be one way to get ahead of the competition. Whether your chosen specialism is in the sciences or humanities, PhD candidates benefit from being able to expand their skill set in practice by writing and researching their dissertation and coursework.

For some sectors, if you are among graduates who have completed a PhD, you may be seen as an expert by others in the field. This will ultimately open up greater career opportunities for you, and lead to a greater development of your abilities.

Make Contributions to Academic Research

The world of academic research is always growing, and new generations of talent bring new perspectives to older studies.

Whether your field is focused on medicine, law, social sciences, humanities or literature, you can be a part of the alumni that makes your discipline grow and thrive.

Access A Wide Range of Careers

For many graduates, some careers are out of reach until a PhD is completed. For example, many doctoral students wish to pursue a career in teaching, however, many of the highly skilled research based lecturing roles are firmly out of reach until a doctorate degree is achieved.

Improve Public Speaking and Build Confidence

Doctorate students usually take time to speak at conferences to demonstrate their research and speak about their findings.

Within a career in law, the majority of PhD candidates find that public speaking forms a large and significant part of practising law, especially as a person representing others in court or during ongoing cases.

For this reason, participating in a law degree will enhance your existing public speaking skills and seek to improve them further as well as building confidence. This way, if you decide to head into a career of writing, research and development, you will feel right at home.

You'll Gain Specialist Knowledge During Your Law Degree

If research is your main priority during your studies, then completing doctoral programs will enable you to work towards further specialising in your area of interest.

You will also further enhance your research skills and get ahead of your peers. You can use this research to create your own legal theory, branch out into teaching classes, practising law in a firm or improving public policy.

Gaining specialist knowledge will also help you to stand out in interview situations for jobs, and having a qualification as a doctor of law will only benefit you. Additionally, the majority of graduates who completed law PhD programs are more likely to be considered as an expert in their field than those who who not.

When you study with Signum Magnum College, you can choose your area of specialism from a wide variety of subjects including:

Cyber law and digital privacy
Human rights and international law
Corporate governance and compliance
Environmental law and policy
Intellectual property law in the digital age

A faculty advisor will then assist you with the writing of your dissertation, which will center on your topic of choice and a hypothesis to research.

Explore a Greater Number of Career Opportunities

Whilst you will open up your career opportunities by going to law school, by completing an advanced law degree, you will open up a world of careers.

Successful graduate programs usually lead students into careers in medicine, financial aid, or juridical science to name just a few.

For some, teaching in academia remains their dream career, and with a PhD in law, you can hope to teach in some of the best academic institutions like Yale Law School and Stanford Law School.

If you want to begin practising law, having law degrees will equip you with the essential skills to sit your bar examination with ease.

Study at a Pace That Suits You

By studying a law degree with Signum Magnum College, you can study at a pace that’s suitable for you. With courses that are specially designed to let you make the most of your academic years, no matter where you’re at with your career progression.

Whether you’re practising law with other lawyers, working on the development of policy in government, or teaching in a faculty, your professional doctorate can be studied through distance learning with Signum Magnum College, giving you the flexibility that other law schools do not have.

Many applicants also have families and caring commitments, so studying your law degree through distance learning means you can balance your other commitments with ease whilst you complete your studies.

Gain Unrivaled Support with Your Studies

Studying doctoral programs can be an incredibly time critical and all-consuming undertaking, so ensuring that you have adequate support in place until you’ve completed your program can be essential.

Whilst completing your studies with Signum Magnum College, you will receive support from your faculty advisor during your research, whilst writing your dissertation, and throughout the duration of your law degree experience.

If you need financial aid during the duration of doctoral programs, you can also obtain a scholarship depending on your eligibility.

Make a Difference to the World at Law School

By studying a law degree, whether at doctoral level or lower, you will be graduating knowing that you are making a difference to the world.

Whether you choose to head into a career inspired by jurisprudence, work with lawyers in criminal or family law, continue research into the philosophy of law or teach in universities across the globe, your efforts enable society to function and maintain justice at every turn. If you’re compelled to be a force for good, a career in law is the one for you.

Gain Versatile and Transferable Skills

In studying a law degree, you will pick up many essential skills that will benefit you wherever you work.

You will learn excellent problem solving skills, and a professional degree will teach you time management. Studying for a bar examination will enable you to practice self discipline. If you’re a person aiming to work with vulnerable people, studying law degrees will equip you with the empathy you need to draw from to work with others on a day to day basis.

Are you considering a career in law? An advanced law degree with Signum Magnum College will kickstart your journey to success! Contact us today to enrol.

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