LL.M. Degree Program

In 1998, Director, William H. Byrnes, IV established the first online LL.M. program offered by an American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school, assembling top academics and practitioners from around the world as resident and non-resident faculty to teach a fully specialized curriculum in International Taxation & Offshore Financial Centers. The LL.M. program is multidisciplinary, admitting lawyers, accountants, estate planners, trust officers, and economists who study side-by-side. The program is multicultural, with online students from Hong Kong, South Africa, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Italy, Mauritius, Canada, Switzerland, the Bahamas, Belize, the United States, China, and many other countries.

Prof. Byrnes created the present online version of the program in 1996 with the support of Walters Kluwer Academic Publishers. The ABA first granted acquiescence to the program for online delivery in 1998. In 2000, the program re-domiciled to at St Thomas University School of Law in Miami.

The program’s courses are designed to be practice-oriented for tax partners and managers of accounting firms, law firms and in-house counsel of private and corporate banks, as for well as revenue department agents. Faculty members reside both at the School of Law and around the world joined together through the Internet. The faculty consists of world-renowned law professors, tax professionals, and revenue officials. Faculty members lead students through daily interactive chatroom discussions using only Internet-delivered materials. Since 1998, the online LL.M. in International Tax has enjoyed the generous support of Walter H. and Dorothy B. Diamond, the mentors of Prof. Byrnes and two of the most respected experts in international tax. Together, the Diamonds have authored over 50 books, including six loose-leaf series, such as Tax & Trade Briefs (monthly supplements over 50 years) and Tax Havens of the World (Matthew Bender).

MASTER OF LAWS (LL.M.)

The LL.M. in International Tax is a U.S. master level degree offered online by St. Thomas University School of Law. The School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges (COC), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the regional accrediting body for the Southern United States, located at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, Phone: (404) 679-4500, Fax: (404) 679-4558, Website: www.sacscoc.org. Non-lawyers participating in this program are advised that an LL.M. program does not prepare or qualify them to engage in the practice of law.