Master in Law
Osaka, Japan
LLM
DURATION
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APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Osaka City University's Graduate School of Law offers two courses. The Academic Course develops legal and political analysis through supervised research, three students per teacher, and emphasizes legal research and jurisprudence. The Law School course focuses on higher-level practical knowledge and skills for future lawyers; professors and practicing lawyers provide on‑the‑job training at law offices, offering clinical skills in litigation and legal practice.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers as judge, prosecutor, attorney, corporate counsel, legal consultant, policy analyst, academic researcher, or public servant, working in courts, law firms, corporations, government, NGOs or academia, and roles in compliance sectors.
Our Graduate School of Law has two educational courses. One for students who want to further up their ability to analyze legal and political problems (Academic Course), and another for those who want to practice law in the future (Law School). In the Academic course students usually engage in research work on a specific theme, and thereby enhance their capacity of legal and political analysis. Training is performed on the basis of three students per teacher.
The Law School course provides students with a higher level of knowledge and skills required for practicing lawyers. For this purpose we have, besides many professors with long academic careers, professors who are practicing law and provide on-the-job training at law offices.
