Requirements for a DDP Law Degree

Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts (DDP) students graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) degree from Yale-NUS College and a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) degree from the NUS Law. In the first year of their studies, DDP students will read Yale-NUS Common Curriculum courses throughout the year alongside LL4146V Law & Society, an NUS Law course designed for DDP students, in the second semester. DDP students will complete the remaining Common Curriculum courses throughout their second, third and fourth years while taking core and elective courses at NUS Law. Students are also eligible to participate in a semester abroad in their fourth year, but should organise their courses in advance to avoid any clashes with graduation requirements. In their final year, students will finish their electives in both Yale-NUS and NUS Law, while also writing their capstone. The capstone is a research and writing project on a topic that fuses their education in both the law and liberal arts.

CURRICULUM OUTLINE

Core Curriculum

Under the Double Degree Programme, students will be expected to complete the core curriculum in both Yale-NUS and NUS Law.

Electives

There are two important requirements that DDP students should bear in mind when planning their choice of Law and Combined Law & Liberal Arts (CLLA) electives.

First, all LLB students from Cohort AY2014/2015 onwards must complete at least one law elective course from the Civil Law cluster list. For DDP students, the Civil Law elective could be taken to fulfil (1) the Law Elective requirement OR (2) the CLLA Elective requirement; for the latter, DDP students must ensure that the Civil Law elective is approved by both Yale-NUS and NUS Law as a CLLA Elective.

Second, to qualify for the Singapore Bar, a Law student has to earn a minimum of 120Unit of Law courses. To ensure this, students in the programme can only take up to three courses of law electives designated as 4Unit; the rest of the law electives taken must be selected from courses designated as 5Unit.

More details regarding the typical schedule of courses taken throughout the five-year programme can be found here.