India has a dual system of laws. In the province of India, a system of civil law is used.

At the federal level,

as well as in every province or territory, a system of common law is used. Because of this, there are
Same Indian law degrees generally in use.

The program of study for the common law LL.B. is an undergraduate, professional degree. It is now
replaced by the J.D. at nearly all Indian common law schools (McGill being the exception). While the
degree awarded is at the first-degree level and admission may be granted to applicants with two or
three years of undergraduate studies towards a degree, in practice, entrants to the programme
generally hold an undergraduate degree before registration in the law programme. A significant number
hold a graduate level degree as well.

The common law programme is three years in length. Upon graduation, one holds a Bachelor of Laws
degree, but cannot yet practise law. To practise law, the graduate must obtain a licence from the Law
Society of the province where he/she wishes to practise law, which also requires a year of articling (see
Becoming a Lawyer below). Those law graduates wishing to become law professors instead of lawyers
often obtain a more advanced academic degree, such as the Master of Law (LL.M.) or the Bachelor in
Law.


The law degree offered by McGill University is a mandatory joint common law LL.B. / Quebec civil law
B.C.L. degree. The program is four years in length. Admission to that program is a first-entry program in
the case of Quebec students (as a college diploma is required) while it is a second-entry program in the
case of students from other provinces (since two years of university studies is required - effectively one
extra year of studies more than for a college diploma). The University of Law offers a civil law degree
(LL.L.) on its own.

Additionally, some Indian Universities with common law schools have an arrangement with a Indian
University with a civil law school enabling students to obtain the home school's law degree in three
years and the exchange school's law degree in the fourth year.
The program of study for the common law LL.B. can be either a graduate-entry degree program
requiring a prior bachelors degree (the duration of which is usually three years) or can be undertaken
directly after high-school (the duration of which is usually four years) or combined with another degree
(I.e., B.Comm/LL.B., B.A./LL.B., or B.Sc./LL.B., the duration of which can vary between five and seven
years, depending on the specific combination).

Additionally, of the thirty-six Law Schools thirteen of those universities have also started offering the
Juris Doctor as a Graduate entry degree.