Note, you aren't a lawyer when you graduate from 'law school'; in fact, you're among the hoi polloi - or, maybe because of oh-so high academic requirements - of law degree graduates. In Australia, considering there are undergraduate law programs (both stand-alone law, and combined), and the lack of an LSAT-equivalent, it barely means that much.
In any case, BSc/LLB is a course that quite a number undertake, even if it appears to be non-synergistic. That notion is far from the truth; for example, you can become a patent/intellectual property 'lawyer' (when I use the term 'lawyer', I am most probably referring to a consultant, clerk, etc.; not
Boston Legal,
Law and Order barristers, attorneys-at-law, etc. (people who have actually sat and passed a jurisdiction's Bar exam)), or a lawyer, consultant, or technical specialist at a science-related firm.
LordPc said:
law/science? nah, no one does that.
If you ever pick up a science faculty/science discipline department's prospectus from, say, the University of Sydney or the University of New South Wales, I'll bet that you'll see a combined law/science person.
Once again, there are people that do it.
tanna said:
Another question - what about the workload? I mean, I hear law is a full on course, and coupled with science... I dunno...
Does anyone do this combo?
My boyfriend's girlfriend's mother's sister's brother's father's son's daughter's uncle's aunt's nephew's neice's pet goldfish does this, and the workload is manageable.
Most BSc/LLB have three years of a reduced first-year law course, in addition to a science component (again, reduced in comparison to a science-only degree). After science, you may wish to take a year off for honours science; if not, or after finishing honours science, you do full-law. After 5, 6, ... years, you'll graduate with both degrees.
lyounamu said:
I am also considering Commerce/Science (adv maths). They complement each other excellently if you do, say, finance from commerce and fiancial maths from science. They are many ways to combine these seemily different disciplines so that they complement each other. Or you can do them for the sake of your interest. It really might help you with employment as businesses are increasingly interested in people with variety of skills + knowledge.
Commerce already has financial maths.
Adv. maths is more appropriate for those who wish to become code-crackers, security analysts, etc. in the long run; I don't want to be critical of you, or anything that you represent, but you perhaps shouldn't bother with it.
Studentleader said:
Chances are if you did something like chemistry/pharmacy and law you could look very attractive to a chemical firm
There is no Pharmacy/Law. Pharmacy sets you up for community, hospital, or industrial practice. If you mean pharmaceuticals/medicinal chemistry/etc., then that's BSc/LLB, a science major within the discipline of chemistry.
You will need to be pretty decent with organic chem., I imagine.
