BY JESSIE POUNDS, Daily Progress
The Liberty University School of Law plans to offer online master’s degrees this fall, according to an announcement from the school. The plan is for juris master degrees in American legal studies and international legal studies, as well as a master’s of laws degree in international legal studies. The typical qualifying degree for lawyers in the United States is the juris doctorate, which Liberty offers on-campus. The American Bar Association’s accrediting arm recently granted permission to Liberty to implement the degrees. The bar association accredits only juris doctorate degrees, so its role in granting permission is only to make sure those degrees won’t pull away resources or interfere with a school’s existing law degree program.
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