Law or Public Policy?

HappyAlumnus
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:48:53 +0000

I’m a lawyer and went to a law school that had a school of public policy as part of the same university, so plenty of people got JD/MPP degrees.

Unless you want to work as a lawyer in a law firm or as a lawyer, doing legal work, for another organization, I’d skip the JD and just get an MPP. A JD is useful only for working as a lawyer, doing legal work. Plenty of people do have JDs and do other things, but it’s often because they worked as a lawyer and didn’t like it–not because the JD gave them some type of special skill that magically opened doors elsewhere.