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Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by sdirishfan » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:33 pm

Which should I put on my resume?

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by TheNerdProject » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:34 pm

J.D. candidate

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by LawandOrder » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:34 pm

Doctor

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by sdirishfan » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:39 pm

Here are the options:

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

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Post by LawandOrder » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:42 pm

Go with Doctor of Semantics

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by dantimreynolds » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:44 pm

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by mightydinosaur » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:00 pm

Wikipedia uses "Juris Doctor," no italics. I don't think anybody who knows what's up says "Juris Doctorate." Searching for that terms on Google gets a bunch of redirects to "Juris Doctor" and a few hits that mostly look like bottom tier and online law schools.

That said, I agree with TheNerdProject that "J.D. Candidate" is best. I've never seen anybody write out the full term in daily usage (which is why we all needed to look it up), and it looks pretentious to me, just like it would be uselessly pretentious if I listed my undergrad degree as "Artium Baccalaureus."

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by ToTransferOrNot » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:17 pm

Do you write "Bachaelor of Fine Arts," "Bachaelor of Science," etc for your undergrad degree? No. You say BFA, BA, BS, etc. Why would a JD be any different?

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Post by Ipsa Dixit » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:46 pm

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Do you write "Bachaelor of Fine Arts," "Bachaelor of Science," etc for your undergrad degree? No. You say BFA, BA, BS, etc. Why would a JD be any different?
I say Bachelor of Arts on mine.

As to the law degree, my school says to use J.D. or Juris Doctor, but not Juris Doctorate.

I'd say just keep consistent. If you abbreviate one degree, abbreviate the other.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by transferguy » Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:01 pm

ToTransferOrNot wrote:Do you write "Bachaelor of Fine Arts," "Bachaelor of Science," etc for your undergrad degree? No. You say BFA, BA, BS, etc. Why would a JD be any different?

Actually, yes I do write out Bachelor of Arts. (and we were told to by career services)

They also say to use Juris Doctor and not Doctorate.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by XxSpyKEx » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:43 pm

sdirishfan wrote:Here are the options:

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate
What about "Jurisprudence Doctor." It just sounds better.

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Post by Oblomov » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:53 pm

I'm personally sick of this candidate crap. Your resume is going to say something like State U, J.D. 2012. They know that it is not yet 2012. I'd prefer to see exp. 2012 than the pomp of J.D. Candidate, 2012.

I think this is something that has been dragged out of PhD programs by insecure, pretentious law students. We don't write a dissertation; we're never "candidates."


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Post by Contrarian » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:10 pm

sdirishfan wrote:Here are the options:

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate

Juris Doctor Candidate

Juris Doctorate Candidate
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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by M_Cool » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:18 pm

saying doctorate would be incorrect

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by Fly » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:46 am

We were told by career services to go with "J.D. Expected, May 2011." Apparently career services departments widely disagree on this important issue!

I think either J.D. or Juris Doctor is fine. Juris Doctorate is not.

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Post by Fyzzix » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:24 pm

transferguy wrote:
ToTransferOrNot wrote:Do you write "Bachaelor of Fine Arts," "Bachaelor of Science," etc for your undergrad degree? No. You say BFA, BA, BS, etc. Why would a JD be any different?

Actually, yes I do write out Bachelor of Arts. (and we were told to by career services)

They also say to use Juris Doctor and not Doctorate.
I double majored, so I write out

Bachelor of Arts AND Bachelor of Science

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by yqsong » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:56 pm

Cavalier wrote:I use J Dizzle.
LOL.
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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by Timmybb13 » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:00 pm

Candidate: Doctor of Jurisprudence


In a few years when you are on an airplane and someone yells, "Help! Is there a doctor in the room?", make sure you are ready to respond.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by finalnight » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:10 am

Here, we call it Juris Doctor.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by mohdban » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:23 pm

I would say "The Doctor of Jurisprudence" is credited.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by lymenheimer » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:36 pm

mohdban wrote:I would say "The Doctor of Jurisprudence" is credited.
Very helpful to the OP.

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by grand inquisitor » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:42 pm

if you did moot court it should be "Doctorate of Jurisprudential Demagoguery" otherwise it should be "Juris Doctor"

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Re: Juris Doctor Candidate or Juris Doctorate Candidate

Post by mohdban » Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:12 pm

lymenheimer wrote:
mohdban wrote:I would say "The Doctor of Jurisprudence" is credited.
Very helpful to the OP.
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