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( Bachelor of law)
The undergraduate academic degree of Bachelor of Laws is the degree required for the practice of law in the many of common law countries, other than the United States, where their equivalent entry-level law degree is the Juris Doctor. Most law schools in Canada are, or are in the process of, changing their degrees to the J.D. degree. Indeed, this is the trend in both Asia and Australia. The LLB is historically classified as a First professional degree and that accounts for its demise in most countries that have placed law school as a second-entry professional degree. Where the term Bachelor of Laws continues to be used, it is abbreviated LL.B. (or LLB) "LL." is an abbreviation of the genitive plural legum (of lex, legis f., law), thus "LL.B." stands for Legum Baccalaureus in Latin. In the United States it is sometimes erroneously called "Bachelor of Legal Letters" to account for the double "L" (however then it is abbreviated as "L.L.B."). Historically, in Canada, Bachelor of Laws was the name of the first degree in common law, but is also the name of the first degree in Quebec civil law awarded by a number of Quebec universities. All Canadian common-law LL.B. programs are second-entry professional degrees, meaning that the majority of those admitted to an LL.B. programme are already holders of one or more degrees, or, at a minimum, have completed two years of study in a first-entry, undergraduate degree in another discipline. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the first degree in Scots law and South African law (both being pluralistic legal systems that are based partly on common law and partly on civil law) awarded by a number of universities in Scotland and South Africa, respectively.
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