American universities' experience in LL.M courses for foreign students

The author looks at the LL.M. courses for foreign students in USA. Special attention is paid to the so called Joint courses suggesting two degrees. Cross disciplinary programs include a number of law disciplines along with MBA, economics, history, philosophy, political science, bioethics and sociology at a choice. The author's conclusion allows estimating the strengths of the American LL.M. course for foreign students at the time of developing the third generation curriculums for Russian higher school.

LL.M. course, translation degree, Pre-LL.M. Course / Summer Legal English Course, joint degrees, cross disciplinary courses, socratic method