Editing Juris Doctor (section)

====Standard ''Juris Doctor'' curriculum====
{{See also|Law school in the United States#Curriculum}}

As stated by Hall and Langdell, who were involved in the creation of the JD, the JD is a professional degree like the [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]], intended to prepare practitioners through a [[#Revolutionary approach: scientific study of law|scientific approach]] of analysing and teaching the law through logic and adversarial analysis (such as the [[Casebook method|casebook]] and [[Socratic method#Law schools|Socratic]] methods).<ref>{{cite journal
 |last=Hall
 |first=J.
 |year=1907
 |title=American Law School Degrees
 |journal=Michigan Law Review
 |volume=6
 |number=2
 |pages=112–117
 |doi=10.2307/1274166
 |jstor=1274166
 |url=https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12788&context=journal_articles
 |via=Google Books
 |access-date=1 August 2021
 }}</ref> This system of curriculum has existed in the United States for over 100 years. The JD program generally requires a bachelor's degree for entry, though this requirement is sometimes waived.<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Chapter&nbsp;5
 |series=Legal Education Standards (2015–2016)
 |date=7 February 2016
|url=http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/misc/legal_education/Standards/2015_2016_chapter_5.authcheckdam.pdf
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207013247/http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/misc/legal_education/Standards/2015_2016_chapter_5.authcheckdam.pdf
 |archive-date=7 February 2016
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Applying without a bachelor's degree
 |website=Cooley.edu
 |url=http://www.cooley.edu/prospective/bachelors.html
 |access-date=17 April 2017 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502193806/http://www.cooley.edu/prospective/bachelors.html
 |archive-date=2 May 2017
}}
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{{cite web
 |title=Admission FAQ
 |url=http://www.lawdegree.com/content/admission/faq.asp
 |access-date=4 January 2016 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119012420/http://www.lawdegree.com/content/admission/faq.asp
 |archive-date=19 January 2016
}}
</ref>

As a study of the substantive law and its professional applications, the JD curriculum has not changed substantially since its creation. As a professional degree, JD programs typically allow practitioners. It requires at least three academic years of full-time study. While the JD is a doctoral degree in the US, lawyers usually use the suffix "[[esquire|Esq.]]" as opposed to the prefix "Dr.", and that only in a professional context, when needed to alert others that they are a biased party – acting as an agent for their client.<ref name=Perry-2012-06/>