Admission Qualifications

• have a law degree or a license to practice law in your home jurisdiction
• be proficient in English. If your English does not quite meet our required level, you should apply for conditional admission or consider taking courses in TUJ's Academic English Program before you apply to the Law Program.

More information here. 

Admission Qualifications

• have a law degree or a license to practice law in your home jurisdiction
• be proficient in English. If your English does not quite meet our required level, you should apply for conditional admission or consider taking courses in TUJ's Academic English Program before you apply to the Law Program.

More information here. 

Program information

The LL.M. in U.S. Law gives you the freedom to design a study program tailored to your specific interests. You may select any course, U.S. and international or comparative, among all the courses that the university offers. You may complete the entire LL.M. in Tokyo, or you may take some courses in Tokyo and some at Temple's campuses in Philadelphia, Rome, and Beijing. 


You must take two courses: Legal Research & Writing (LRW) and one further writing course; other than those courses, you are free to choose among all the courses that we offer.

Program information

The LL.M. in U.S. Law gives you the freedom to design a study program tailored to your specific interests. You may select any course, U.S. and international or comparative, among all the courses that the university offers. You may complete the entire LL.M. in Tokyo, or you may take some courses in Tokyo and some at Temple's campuses in Philadelphia, Rome, and Beijing. 


You must take two courses: Legal Research & Writing (LRW) and one further writing course; other than those courses, you are free to choose among all the courses that we offer.