Candidate of Law

Candidate of Law (cand. jur. or candidatus/candidata juris, in Sweden jur. kand) is the degree awarded to jurists who have passed the law-exam in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland after studying law for about 5 years. The Swedish jur kand is obtained after four and a half years at the normal pace. Danish and Icelandic degrees take five years, whereas the Finnish degree takes four years. In Norway, the degree is obtained after five and a half years, in addition to a compulsory single semester 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 (LLM) in 2003, the final student to graduate as a cand.jur in the spring semester of 2007. In Scandinavian countries, the exam can only be taken at a university with a Diploma privilege granted by the government - though any institution may provide legal education. University education was until recently based on large scale seminars... full article at wikipedia