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A virtual classroom brings law students in China and at Harvard together

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It’s Wednesday night in Cambridge and Thursday morning in Beijing, and their seminar rooms are some 6,700 miles apart, but for 30 students from Harvard Law School and the Renmin University of China School of Law, common interests and videoconferencing equipment easily bridge these distances.

During this spring semester, students in a reading group taught by HLS Professor William P. Alford and an advanced negotiation skills class taught by Renmin Assistant Professor Alonzo Emery ’10 have come together electronically to consider the roles of China and the U.S. in a world order in flux.

Please visit the Harvard Law School website to read more.

 

Applications for fall 2013 semester abroad are due February 15

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A reminder that Friday, February 15 is the deadline for J.D. students to submit an application to spend the fall 2013 semester abroad. HLS has formal exchange programs in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Switzerland; J.D students may also conduct an independent semester abroad at law schools throughout the world.

For detailed information and application instructions, visit the semester abroad pages on our web site.

The Rule of Law in China

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On November 28, Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Hunstman and law professors from Yale, Harvard, and New York University participated in “Prospects and Challenges for Rule of Law,” a session of the Brookings Institution event “Rule of Law in China: Prospects and Challenges.”  HLS was represented by WIlliam P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, and Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies.  The C-SPAN video of their discussion is available here.

Semester Abroad and the Joint HLS-Cambridge LL.M. Program

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Harvard Law School offers several opportunities for HLS students to earn credit abroad: a joint J.D./LL.M. program in which students are able to earn both a Harvard J.D. and an LL.M. from Cambridge University in England in three-and-a-half years; a semester abroad at one of the ten foreign law schools with which HLS has an exchange program; and an independent semester abroad under the supervision of a Harvard Law School faculty member.

Join us on Monday, October 15, at noon, in Hauser 104, for an information session on these study abroad programs. Come learn more about these programs from HLS students who have studied abroad.

Chris Yap (JD ’12), spending a semester abroad at Peking University in Beijing, China

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“I’ve spent the spring semester of my 2L year studying abroad at Peking University. Despite the plethora of resources available at HLS, certain aspects of the experience abroad simply cannot be replicated at home.  If you can see beyond the superficial, formalistic distinctions between legal systems, studying abroad can offer deep insight into real differences between approaches to studying law and perspectives on what the law is and should be. At the same time, it offers a great opportunity to examine shared undercurrents that flow between legal systems, and provides an excellent means by which to reflect upon our own legal education.”