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help! thinking of switching from law to economic history

over the past few months, while i was building up my supercurriculars for my law application (doing readings, watching seminars, trying to get work experience), i gradually became more lukewarm about studying law at uni. granted i don't know much about the subject and have never experienced being taught law, so i might be able to find it really fun at uni - but so far my interests have always been the economic and political aspects of law. however, econhist isn't offered in many unis that i would like to go to, i have never looked at applying for economics or history before so i have no idea what is expected from me for economic history, and i am still looking at a career in law so i feel a law degree would help me a lot with making connections as well as being more secure than trying to do a conversion programme on my own. could i ask any economic history/political economy applicants or undergrads:

what courses did you apply to? were your options all pure economic history/history and economics? or did you also apply to others such political economy (i have even less of an idea about that)?

did you get guidance from any of your teachers? i am the only person considering economic history in particular

what did you do for supercurriculars - are there any supercurriculars specific to econhist?

what did you write about for your personal statement? specific historical events? economic theory?

what made you choose economic history over pure economics or pure history? it seems like quite a specialist subject from the get go

did you take the course looking to go into a specific career? and if so what career?

for those in uni studying econhist, are the economic and historical elements generally balanced? are there opportunities to specialise in one or the other?


thank you!

Reply 1

What confuses me here is that you still apparently want to eventually do Law at postgrad level.
And this suggests that you are just panicking a bit about 'going to Uni' and not studying Law. This is totally normal, and many people will be getting a bit toey at the moment and wondering 'have I made the right choice' .

Ask yourself why you wanted to study Law, and still do,
Look at some online Moocs etc about Law -
Introduction to English Common Law | Coursera
Inside the UK Supreme Court - Online Law Course - FutureLearn
Incarceration: Are prisons a suitable punishment? - FutureLearn Course

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