Candidate of Law

Candidate of Law (Latin: candidatus/candidata juris, Danish: cand.jur., Norwegian: cand.jur., Swedish: jur.kand, Finnish: oik. maist.) is the degree awarded to jurists who have passed the law exam in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland after studying law for about 5–6 years. In Iceland, graduates are now awarded a master's degree in the field of law.

The Swedish jur.kand is obtained after four and a half years at the normal pace. Danish, Icelandic and Finnish degrees take five years. In Norway, the degree is obtained after five and a half years, in addition to a compulsory single term entrance examination in philosophy and ethics, the Examen Philosophicum – a total of 6 years. In Norway it was replaced by the degree Master of Laws in 2003; the final student to graduate as a cand.jur did so in the spring term of 2007. Swedish universities switched to a curriculum leading up to a Master of Law rather than a jur. kand. in the fall of 2010.

Previously in Finland the academic degree (Finnish: oikeustieteen kandidaatti, Swedish: juris kandidat) was awarded to a person after completing generally 5 years of study in the field of law. Both before and after the Bologna process in 2005 the academic degree is split into two different grades. Previously, the lower degree was varanotaari (Fi.) / vicenotarie (Sw.), and currently the lower degree awarded is oikeusnotaari (Fi.) / rättsnotarie (Sw.) after completing circa 3 years of study (180 ECTS credits) equal to LL.B. The upper degree is oikeustieteen maisteri (Fi.) / juris magister (Sw.) after additional 2 years of study (120 ECTS) equal to an LL.M. or JD.

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