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JD. n. short for Juris Doctor, identifying the holder as having received that law degree. (See: Juris Doctor) Juris Doctor (J.D.) n. the law degree granted upon graduation by many university law schools with accepted high standards of admission and grading. This often supersedes the Bachelor of Laws in recognition that the law curriculum entitles a person to a graduate degree. Copyright Â© 1981-2005 by Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill.
The Juris Doctor (or Juris Doctorate) is a law degree that originally surfaced in the United States during the 1960s. This new law degree was designed as a replacement or alternative to its academic equivalent, the LLB or Bachelor of Laws degree. The degree quickly gained popularity as it afforded the holder the professional recognition of a doctoral degree in law. From an academic perspective, above the Juris Doctor (JD) is the LLM degree (Master of Laws) and then the SJD, JSD, LLD, etc., the true research based doctor of Laws terminal degrees.