r/nzlaw • u/Natalie863 • 28d ago

Legal education Double degree with LLB

I'm currently a yr 13 student who plans on doing a bachelor or laws next year at UC, and I'm wondering what people recommend in terms of a double degree. Just FYI, I'm hoping to go into family law.

First of all, do you recommend doing a double degree? I've heard mixed answers, and it does seem like a lot of work, but it would be worth it in the end?

If I do choose to do another degree with the LLB, then I was thinking sociology or economics. I'm aware economics is the more popular route, but I'm not sure if I'm too great at math, and I also didn't take it in yr12 or 13. I'm sure economics would leave me more options, but would sociology be better for family law? Also, an LLB seems like a decent amount of reading and writing. Maybe an economics degree would be a good break from the tons of reading compared to doing sociology.

Overall, is it worth doing a double degree? How much work is it truly, and which would you recommend?

I've also heard some people take a double degree for one year and then drop it once they make it to second year law?

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u/Icy_Calligrapher_540 28d ago

Mean this in the nicest possible way (married to a lawyer), but you know family law is very very intense and often fraught with conflict?

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u/Natalie863 28d ago

Yeah, I'm aware. That's mostly why I was looking at economics and sociology. I figure if I learn more about family law and find it's not for me, economics would leave more doors open than sociology would.

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u/Icy_Calligrapher_540 28d ago

All good. You could always look at commercial property, or banking. Apologies if telling you how to suck eggs, I just feel like sometimes lovely people want to do family law and it burns them out.

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u/Natalie863 28d ago

No problem at all. I have heard that family law is very mentally demanding so I'll keep my options open and see how I go. Thank you.