Study The Law In The United States Of America

This book highlights the peculiarity of the study of law in the United States of America, in which the law is viewed in a different light than that viewed by jurists in countries with a Latin legal system, and even in countries which adopted the Common Law system. The development of the concept of law in the United States developed in a way which is like no other.

With God’s blessing, I was given the opportunity to study for a master’s and doctorate in law in the United States for five years, beginning on the East Coast at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and ending on the West Coast at the University of California, Berkeley.

During these years, I mostly engaged in an internal process of discussion and reflection, related to the major comparison between my study of law in Kuwait and that which I lived day to day as a scholarship student in the United States.

Through this, I became convinced that we Arab jurists (law students, lawyers, judges, and university professors) do not know much about that uniqueness, and that we need a book to be added to our Arab library that gives us glimpses of this difference, and helps those wishing to study bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in law to discover those important differences, and to hear some advice about admission to these programs that they won't find written down somewhere, that no one has said to them before.

Dr. Abdullah Al-Khayyat, a professor of law at the Faculty of Law at Kuwait University, completed his first studies in the Salmiya area, then graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kuwait University with a Bachelor’s degree in Law, and followed it with a Master’s degree in private law at the same university.

He joined the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, and worked as Deputy Public Prosecutor for a period, until he joined the Kuwait University delegation to complete postgraduate studies in law in the United States with a master’s and doctoral degree, starting from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., on the east coast, and finishing at the University of Berkeley in California on the west coast. From 2016 to 2021, during that period he formed impressions of what law is in the United States as a field and wrote a study that he put into this book to cover the needs of the legal community in our Arab region, which is unfamiliar with the basis and goals of studying law in the United States.