04 Jun So You Want To Study Abroad This Summer?
One of great perqs of teaching international law is the opportunity to participate in study abroad programs. I have done so almost every year since I started teaching, and this year I will be headed to Sweden to teach International Trade at Suffolk Law School’s program in Lund.
There is virtually no limit to the choices you have if you want to study abroad. The University of Idaho School of Law has this comprehensive list of study abroad programs. According to this list, there are over 300 programs in almost fifty countries. (Somewhat surprisingly, apparently there is no ABA-approved study abroad program in New Zealand. I guess there is just not enough market demand for American law students to study there.)
So if you are a law student and still haven’t yet made plans for the summer, I’m sure that one of the 300 programs will still have an opening. You can start at the top with Argentina, or at the bottom with Zimbabwe. (Okay, Syracruse’s Zimbabwe program currently is not active. Can’t imagine why.)
As for international law professors who want to teach abroad, I would be curious how many of these programs utilize law professors from outside their own law school. If you know which study abroad programs do use outside professors, please do tell.
(Thanks to OJ research assistant Louis Froelich for assistance).
Just to set the record straight, the University of Auckland Faculty of Law has formal exchanges with the following law schools: Indiana, Kansas, Virginia, and William & Mary. The programs are quite popular; I’ve taught around 10 American exchange students in the last year!
Okay, okay. Just going on the best information available. I’ve actually been to the University of Auckland law school and can attest to the beauty of Auckland! Sort of like Malibu with jet lag.
Roger
Hi Roger, I’m gearing up to go to Korea for Fordham’s summer program in Seoul. Curtis Milhaupt of Columbia will be teaching there too. We’ve got over 110 students this year, mostly from the USA and Canada but also from China, Japan, Korea and Kyrgyzstan.
Howdy Roger – I’m leaving in two days to teach international economic law in AU’s summer program that does a roadshow from London-Brussels-Paris-Geneva. I do business law in London; the law school’s program is administered and the EU law portion taught by a professor from the international relations school, a lawyer from Italy, but the rest of the professors are all from WCL/AU. We’ve got about 65 students this particular summer, and it is a lot of fun and the only way that my family can spend ten days in London, and ten days in Paris, in hotels in the center. (I would only do the London portion, but a faculty emergency came up and I agreed to do the Paris portion as well to cover for an ill colleague – Paris sounds great, but it meant having to drop out of the Vancouver ASIL meeetings, which I had been working on very hard and greatly looking forward to, plus I love Vancouver.) Between my expenses being covered and what the program pays me, we about break even for three – unless, of course, my beloved wife goes to a store in Paris called Agnes B, in which case all… Read more »