International Legal Studies Program January 2008 Updates:
Global Network Newsletter. ILSP is proud to announce that it recently released an updated color version of its semi-annual alumni newsletter.
ILSP recently welcomed its new Spring 2008 students. See our incoming class distribution in the chart below:
This spring semester, the Washington College of Law will host its Annual Founders' Celebration. The Founders' Celebration offers numerous events and conferences which highlight a diverse array of legal issues in today’s world. The following events may be of interest to international lawyers:
- January 30th: Challenges for Data Privacy in Transatlantic and Global Perspective
- February 11-12th: Rethinking the Future: The Next 5 Years in Iraq
- March 19th: 2nd Annual Conference in Honor of the US-Israeli Civil Liberties Fellowship Program
- March 27th: Climate Change and Claiming the Arctic Circle
- April 9th: Tenth Annual Grotius Lecture: Speaker HRH Prince Zeid Ra’ad, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- April 14th: International Commercial Arbitration in the Americas: A Look Ahead
- March 31st: The Role of Law Schools in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
- April 8th: Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in the ICC: Translating Promises into Reality
- May 18th-23rd: 13th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
The Washington College of Law offers 7 international and domestic Summer Programs to our WCL students and anyone who wishes to enroll. Programs vary from studying human rights and international commercial arbitration, to learning trade law in Chile and rule of law in Turkey.
- The Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: May 27th – June 13th
- International Commercial Arbitration: May 27th – June 13th
- Environmental Law: May 27th – June 13th
- The Comparative Law Summer Program in Europe (The Paris-Geneva Program): May 25th – June 21st
- Summer Law Program in Chile: May 25th- June 25th
- Summer Law Program in Turkey: May 25th – June 21st
- Summer Legal English Institute: 3 Week course: July 28th – August 14th;Intensive 4 Day Course: May 19th - 22nd
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Incoming spring 2008 class
53 students from 27 countries |
Gender distribution
28 women, 25 men |
Regional distribution
10 from Africa
10 from East Asia
2 from South Asia
2 from Eastern Europe
10 from Western Europe
1 from the Middle East
9 from North America
7 from South America
2 from Central America
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