Online Law degrees

[evanmonast]

I do appreciate your list and I will check out those links but my question was if non ABA-Approved degrees were still legitimate doctorate level degrees regardless of their standing with the ABA.

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The California Committee of Bar Examiners is not a USDOED or CHEA recognized accrediting agency. A law school approved or accredited only by Cal Bar is unlikely to be considered regionally, nationally, or institutionally accredited in the context of college instructor credentialing.

Northwestern California University, for example, holds no DOED or CHEA recognized accreditation. Some Cal Bar non-ABA schools do hold RA, including Concord through Purdue Global.

A huge part of a JD will have nothing to do with criminal justice, and a large part of college instruction in criminal justice won't be addressed in the core courses of a JD and might not be addressed in any elective courses in a given JD either.

If it were easy for a JD, and what's more a JD who might not have passed the bar or practiced law for a day, to get a college teaching job in another field related to law, would we have heard so much for the past ten or twenty years about an employment crisis among law school grads?

So a degree from Concord Law through Purdue is a real degree regardless if I take the Cal Bar? 

I've looked through the course lists of many Law Schools and they seem to be right on par with the the courses of the school I want to teach at. At least on the surface, they have the same titles and similar descriptions. Criminal Justice is a double edged blade and can be related to police and policing or legal studies. Criminal Justice isn't just for those who want to go into law enforcement. 

I didn't say I was looking for an easy JD, I just don't want to take on a house sized debt if I don't have to. The listed qualifications for most CCs is just a masters degree, I would get a JD to go above and beyond.