2013

SMU-Yonsei To Start Joint Law Programme

SMU has partnered South Korea's Yonsei University Law School to set up a dual Juris Doctor (JD) programme to develop more lawyers with expertise in the legal systems of both countries. The joint programme, which was made possible by a memorandum of understanding signed last month by the deans of SMU School of Law and Yonsei University Law School, allows a JD student from one university, with two years of study in the partner university, to obtain a second JD degree from the latter. Under the programme, SMU's JD students must have completed at least two academic years of study in Singapore and meet the minimum Grade Point Average before they may be transferred to Yonsei's JD programme with full recognition of their credits earned at the SMU School of Law.