https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/is-it-possible-for-officers-to-get-a-dual-degree-in-both-law-and-security-studies-while-pursuing-advanced-civil-schooling <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Certain universities like Georgetown and Princeton offer programs where one can go to both law school and pursue an international relations masters simultaneously. My mid-term goal is to push my career to become a strategist, and I figured a law degree in international law with a focus on war studies, along with a masters in something similar, is essential. Even if I don&#39;t end up actively practicing law long term, it provides legal knowledge at a depth that would be difficult to learn otherwise. Thank you Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:45:26 -0400 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/is-it-possible-for-officers-to-get-a-dual-degree-in-both-law-and-security-studies-while-pursuing-advanced-civil-schooling <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Certain universities like Georgetown and Princeton offer programs where one can go to both law school and pursue an international relations masters simultaneously. My mid-term goal is to push my career to become a strategist, and I figured a law degree in international law with a focus on war studies, along with a masters in something similar, is essential. Even if I don&#39;t end up actively practicing law long term, it provides legal knowledge at a depth that would be difficult to learn otherwise. Thank you 2LT Private RallyPoint Member Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:45:26 -0400 2018-09-13T18:45:26-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/is-it-possible-for-officers-to-get-a-dual-degree-in-both-law-and-security-studies-while-pursuing-advanced-civil-schooling?n=3962200&urlhash=3962200 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1266463" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1266463-13a-field-artillery-officer">2LT Private RallyPoint Member</a> the ACS time is capped at 18 months. I suppose you could if the program were that long...the real question is whether your branch would support an ACS slot.<br /><br />The Army in theory doesn&#39;t allow people to dabble in Law. In or out. If Law is your interest, FLEP is the program. If you become FA59, they send you for a masters. LTC Jason Mackay Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:58:42 -0400 2018-09-13T18:58:42-04:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/is-it-possible-for-officers-to-get-a-dual-degree-in-both-law-and-security-studies-while-pursuing-advanced-civil-schooling?n=3962244&urlhash=3962244 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Usually going to law school is a three year commitment, minimum. If you are looking for a law degree in international law, then you are looking at a four to five year commitment. You need to have your JD before you can get your LLB/LLM, LLwhatever. And obtaining a JD and a master&#39;s degree in international relations will leave you little time to do more than sleep for two hours a day. Don&#39;t know how you can fit in the rest of your life with that, but you might want to think that through.<br />Just because you have a JD, with an LLM or a JD with a master&#39;s degree in something else doesn&#39;t mean you are going to a a depth of legal knowledge that you couldn&#39;t learn otherwise. Ask an attorney if anything learned in law school directly applied to the practice of law. We all say the same thing, only knowing how to research. So practical application in strategy at the legal level will require actually practicing as an attorney in that area.<br />Yes IAAL. No, nothing I learned in law school prepared me for the practice of law, except to do research. Patricia Overmeyer Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:19:42 -0400 2018-09-13T19:19:42-04:00 2018-09-13T18:45:26-04:00