Now that you’re finding your way around campus, where can International Legal Studies take you?
Please join ILS staff for an introduction to the international opportunities awaiting you at HLS: study abroad, winter term clinicals and writing projects, summer work abroad, and so much more.
International Opportunities for ILs
Tuesday, September 12
12 noon – 12:50 p.m.
WCC 2009
This fall, nine students from law schools abroad are studying or conducting research at HLS. At the same time, 11 HLS students will spend the fall semester abroad, in Brazil, China, France, Japan, Mexico and Switzerland, either at our exchange partner schools or through an independent semester abroad, and this year two HLS students will enroll in the Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge J.D./LL.M. Joint Degree Program in the United Kingdom.
We hope you’ll have a chance to meet these visiting students.
Pictured above, left to right: FANG Longfei, Renmin University Law School, China; Luna Barroso, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil; Thomas Romailler, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Switzerland; Harum Mukhayer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; BAO Xiaoli, Renmin Law School, China; Joël Schwizgebel, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Switzerland; Joel Phillips, Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia; and Alice Dartevelle, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France. (Not pictured: Tim Bowley, Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia.)
Where can study abroad take you? Visit the Semester Abroad pages in the International Legal Studies section of the HLS website, and watch the HLS Calendar of Events and this blog for postings about information sessions scheduled in September and later in the year.
This week, 184 new LL.M. students, 10 new S.J.D. candidates, and eight exchange students arrived on campus to begin or continue their studies at HLS. They join 52 S.J.D. candidates who are continuing their work this year. The students in our Graduate Program represent 69 countries and jurisdictions, from A (Afghanistan) to Y (Yemen), and we hope you’ll have a chance to meet many of them.
On August 16, Vice Dean William P. Alford, Assistant Dean Jeanne Tai, and members of the Graduate Program staff welcomed our newest students during the first orientation session in Milstein East.
Legal scholars from across the globe gathered at Harvard Law School in July for a two-day conference on law and development. The conference is the latest in a series of conferences held periodically by a loose consortium of schools–including Harvard Law School, the University of Geneva, Renmin University of China, and the University of Sydney, Australia–on themes of broad shared interest. Previous meetings focused, respectively, on property, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. This year’s conference also included participants from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Seoul National University, the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. This year’s session explored law and development from five vantage points: Business and Trade; Gender and Family; Disability; China as a Case Study; and Three Examples of Potential for Reform.