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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your question is how do the experiences compare intellectually, they are very different.  JD here with a masters also.  (So I can’t speak to the dissertation aspect of your question.) Law school requires close reading of cases which aren’t generally long.  The long ones are excerpted.  You don’t write many papers. You are focused on figuring out an analytical framework that you can apply to different facts.  So you are using your readings to figure out an analytical scaffolding and then learning how to apply it.  My masters program emphasized different skills.  The reading was longer.  You are building over time a body of knowledge, an area of expertise and you are focused on building knowledge of scholarship that you can use to develop your own scholarship.  The comps you take at the end of your masters course work are designed to determine if you have mastered the scholarship “canon” in your field.  If you are a regular JD student in law school no one cares about your scholarship and ideas.   [/quote]

I get that you are trying to share your experience...but "going to grad school" is HIGHLY variable depending on what you are going to grad school for.  My PhD program resembled nothing like yours....which doesn't surprise me, since I know from being at a school with many different high level PhD programs...that they differed...A LOT! OP never even stated what subject of grad school they were considering. This is a crazy red flag....not ready for either law school or "generic" grad school if you are asking this question.[/quote]

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