Broaden Your Horizons: Study Abroad!
As Texas' trade relations with Mexico, Latin America, Asia and Europe continue to expand, the Law School and ILS are working to ensure our students have an opportunity to prepare themselves for legal opportunities arising from these ever-growing international business transactions. We achieve that mission by providing a variety of elective courses in the international law field, and giving students the option to work, learn and study in Mexico, Spain or France. Among other things, these programs help us to highlight the importance of knowing how to apply our laws outside of our borders and the importance of understanding international laws and institutions as well as foreign languages, cultures and societies. These programs are offered under the direction of professors from Texas Tech as well as professors, practitioners and jurists from around the globe.
Summer Law Institute
The School of Law at Texas Tech University is proud to be a partner in a consortium of three law schools that has developed the "Summer Law Institute," a cooperative teaching program with the University of Guanajuato. The University of Guanajuato law school is one of Mexico's leading law centers and is located in the silver-mining highlands of central Mexico. The Institute offers a thorough introduction to Mexican Law and International Law subjects related to the United States and Latin America.
Semester Abroad Programs
For students who speak French or Spanish fluently, the Law School offers legal study for credit through cooperative programs with the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain, and the University of Lyon in Lyon, France (Universite de Jean Moulin, Lyon III). Students interested in these programs select from the regular course offerings at these universities and study with foreign students and professors to learn firsthand about the legal systems in these countries.The American Bar Association approves foreign study programs for students enrolled in any ABA approved law schools; therefore, any student interested in our semester abroad programs must review the ABA Rules well before the time they expect to sign-up for such a program. The criteria established by the ABA for receiving credit for our semester abroad programs (defined as "Student Study in a Foreign Institution" by the ABA) can be found at the ABA Student Study Site. Among other things, the student's academic program must be approved in advance by Texas Tech.
HIGHLIGHTED STUDY ABROAD: Fordham's Summer in Seoul
Fordham University School of Law and Sungkyunkwan University College of Law are pleased to co-sponsor the second annual Summer Law Institute, a three week academic program in international and comparative law in Seoul, Korea from June 12-29, 2007. The first Institute, in 2006, was attended by 87 law students and practitioners, with students coming from 35 U.S. and Canadian law schools including UC-Berkeley, Duke, Emory, Fordham, Hastings, North Carolina, NYU, and UCLA.
Students may enroll in three credit hours by taking one of the following
courses: International Human Rights Law,
International Commercial Arbitration, International
Business Transactions, and Corporate Governance
in a Global Era. These courses will be
taught in English by distinguished tenured or tenure-track faculty
from Fordham, Columbia, and the University of Washington Law Schools.
The program will also offer optional Korean
language lessons for those students interested
in learning some basic Korean. Students will
be able to enroll in three credit hours
during the program, and the courses are approved by the ABA for
credit toward the J.D. degree.
Following the program, students who would like to stay on for internships at Korea's largest multi-national companies, the Korean supreme and constitutional courts, human rights organizations, the Foreign Ministry, as well as some summer associate positions at leading Korean law firms, will have the opportunity to do so under the auspices of the Institute's non-credit internship program.
Program students will also tour the Korean National Court, the Supreme Court, the National Prosecutor's Office and the Foreign Ministry, and attend an extensive selection of extra-curricular tours and social events that enable students to experience Korean cultural life.
To find out more about this extraordinary program, please visit Fordham's website or contact the Program Coordinator, Leighanne Yuh, at lyuh@law.fordham.edu or 212-636-7571.
