Crown Princess Mary’s Education: Subjects, Schools…

[Lozza]

No, but people are claiming that she dosen't have a law degree, when its just flat out wrong.

I might be wrong, but you can only get a JD (juris doctor, or law degree) in Law School. I went to Georgia State and they have an excellent law school and if you want to be a lawyer, that's where you go to get your degree.

Unless Mary went to law school, she didn't get a law degree.

In America you would be right. Last time I checked though, Tasmania is part of Australia. In AUSTRALIA you don't do a degree afterwords. Your law degree (the law schools are all part of the university itself, not seperate) is awarded after five years.

I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated by the Australians. Mary has a law degree. Since she choose to use a different part of her degree, she never became a lawyer, but that does not negate the fact that she has that law degree. Using examples from America or England are irrelevant, as we have very different education systems.

[KikkiB]

Originally Posted by Lozza

No, but people are claiming that she dosen't have a law degree, when its just flat out wrong.



In America you would be right. Last time I checked though, Tasmania is part of Australia. In AUSTRALIA you don't do a degree afterwords. Your law degree (the law schools are all part of the university itself, not seperate) is awarded after five years.

I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated by the Australians. Mary has a law degree. Since she choose to use a different part of her degree, she never became a lawyer, but that does not negate the fact that she has that law degree. Using examples from America or England are irrelevant, as we have very different education systems.

I guess it all boils down to how you choose to use that law degree.

[Lozza]

Of course it does. I'm not arguing that she is a lawyer, because she most definitely is not.

But she was clearly smart enough to not only be accepted into a law degree (no mean feat in Australia) but she completed it. Just because she choose to follow a career path that had more to do with her commerce degree, does not negate her law degree.

Hypothetically, if Mary had become a lawyer would she have 'wasted' her commerce degree?

[Jo of Palatine]

Back to that old topic again, are we? Bashing Mary for something she did not do?

[clonfin]

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[politikgirl]

I don't understand what the debate is about. Mary has a law degree, period. She also has a commerce degree, and she completed the two degrees concurrently. Instead of taking the route to a legal career, Mary chose to go into business. I don't understand why anyone is putting her down for this; it's a bit ridiculous.