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dissonance1848 wrote:If you can wing some exotic MBA from oxbridge, why the hell do you want a law degree? If you are gung-ho about law school, understand that a JD-MBA isn't going to be of much value, and will cost even more.

nickb285 wrote:Not sure if this would even be possible, but if it is, it's a bad idea. If you leave the country right after your 1L summer you're going to miss out on any work, research, networking, etc. opportunities that might have come your way. Then by the time you get back you'll likely have forgotten some of what you learned, and you will be competing for jobs, internships, law review positions, etc. with a) the 3Ls who didn't go to England to read business books and b) the 2Ls who have been busting their humps on law-related stuff for the last year.

I'm all about study abroad, I did two of them in undergrad and they were by far the most worthwhile things I did in college. But law school isn't a time to go "Oh hey, I'm gonna take some business classes in England this semester!" Law school is a professional school, like a trade school but with a much higher cost and therefore more risk if you screw it up by playing around in Europe for one of the most crucial periods of your study.

Even if you can do this, don't. If you want an MBA from Oxford, do that now, and do law school later.

nickb285 wrote:I'm not an adcomm, but I would say that it doesn't actually matter. I don't know much about MBA programs, but I'm guessing you should go to the best one possible/the school nearest where you want to work. If that also happens to be your law school choice, cool, but it's not going to make much if any difference for admission to LS.