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Foreign Study/Work Abroad Opportunities
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Nothing
helps one to better understand the culture of another country than
actually living there. At UGA, this concept is fully
embraced. Currently, UGA ranks ninth in the nation for the number of
students studying abroad. At Georgia Law, several opportunities for
legal study and work experience in other parts of the world are
provided. In fact, more than 20 percent of the
first-year class participated in a Georgia Law summer program -- Global
Internship Program, Summer Program in China and the Brussels Seminar --
in 2008. The School of Law's foreign study and work abroad programs include:
Georgia Law at Oxford
This
15-week program runs from January through April and is
one of the few semester-long study abroad opportunities offered by an
American law school. Selected second- and third-year students take four
courses and receive 12 semester hours of credit. Three of the four
courses address comparative law subjects in a “traditional” small-group
classroom setting, while the fourth course -- a supervised research
tutorial -- requires students to write a lengthy research paper on a
comparative or international law topic of their own choosing.
Global Internship Program
This
initiative provides students with six to 10 weeks of
study and/or work experience in a legal learning environment in one of
more than 25 countries spanning the world -- including Canada,
Argentina, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia, Greece, Tanzania, India, Cambodia
and Papua New Guinea --, making it
UGA’s largest international offering in terms of geographic reach.
Previous host institutions are: the European Centre for Economic
Law in Belgium, King & Wood law firm in China, the Haniel
Corporation in Germany, the Supreme Court of Justice in Ghana and the
Attorney General’s Office in Guyana. Each participant receives funding
from the law school to help offset travel and living costs.
Georgia Law Summer Program in China
This three-and-one-half week, four credit hour program debuted in 2006. Partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing and
Fudan University in Shanghai, this ABA-approved learning experience provides a
unique opportunity to study in China’s two largest cities. The
curriculum offers an
introduction to the Chinese legal system, with an emphasis on
commercial law and U.S.-China trade issues under the
World Trade Organization. There is the potential for Georgia Law
students to remain in the country at the end of the program for a four-
to six-week internship in one of several law firms. In 2008, students
who attended both the China and Brussels law summer programs received
partial tuition scholarships for both initiatives.
Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union
For
more than three decades, Georgia Law has helped sponsor the Brussels
Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union, which now includes a
three-week, four-credit hour ABA-approved course on EU law held at the Institut d’Ètudes
Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It is
taught by officials of the EU Commission and Council, judges of the
European Community Court of Justice, leading practitioners of EU law
and distinguished professors from European universities. Georgia Law
students received partial tuition scholarships in the summer of 2008.
Students who attended both the China and Brussels law summer programs
received partial tuition scholarships for both initiatives.
Equal Justice Foundation Fellowships
Each
summer, several committed public interest law students gain practical
experience through Equal Justice Foundation Fellowships. The awards
provide grants to law students who engage in public interest legal work
in positions that otherwise would not be funded. Recently, EJF
fellowship recipients have used their funds to gain international
experience and aid foreign causes. Such placements include positions at
the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre in India, the
International Justice Mission in Peru and the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime in Colombia.
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