Webinar: Studia prawnicze w USA

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Fragment webinaru który odbył się 21 czerwca 2022 r. „Studying Law in the USA: A Guide to US Master of Laws (LL.M.) & Other US Law Degree Programs for international students”. Naszym gościem był wybitny specjalista od studiów prawniczych, prof. George E. Edwards z Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Spotkanie było poświęcone różnym typom studiów prawniczych dostępnych w USA, procesowi aplikowania na studia prawnicze, kosztom studiów i dostępnej pomocy finansowej oraz formalnościom, jakie należy spełnić aby móc wykonywać zawód prawnika w USA – wszystko pod kątem osób bez obywatelstwa amerykańskiego.

Agenda:

  1. Why Earn a Law Degree in the U.S.?
  2. US Legal System & US Legal Education
  3. Master of Laws (LL.M.) (For international students)
    • Admissions (Application; Requirements; Process)
    • Academic Requirements (and English proficiency)
    • Specializing in a subject area
    • Costs & paying for LL.M. (Scholarships, Grants)
    • U.S. Student Visa
    • Bar Exam (post-LL.M.) (Taking & passing a bar!)
    • Working in US after your LL.M.
    • Queries before accepting law school offer to enroll
  4. Doctor of Jurisprudential Sciences (J.S.D. or S.J.D.)
  5. Juris Doctor (J.D.)
  6. Other U.S. Law Degrees & Study Opportunities
  7. International Human Rights of International Students
  8. Conclusion and Q&A
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Prof. George E. Edwards is the Special Assistant to the Dean for Inter-Governmental & Non-Governmental Organizations and The C.M. Gray Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is also Faculty Director (Founding) of the school’s Program in International Human Rights Law.

Professor Edwards is Faculty Director (Founding / Former) of the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Track in International Human Rights Law, and Executive Chair (Inaugural / Former) of the Graduate Law Programs. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for the Study of Global Change, Indiana University, Bloomington. He has received numerous Teaching, Research and Civic Engagement Awards from Indiana University. He teaches International Human Rights Law; International Legal Transactions; Public International Law; and International Criminal Law.

He received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Associate Editor of the Harvard Journal of International Law. Before joining the IU law faculty, he lived for five years in Hong Kong and worked as associate director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong, and as lecturer at City University of Hong Kong. He also taught for the Law Society of Hong Kong.

From 1987 to 1991, Professor Edwards practiced law with the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He served as law clerk to The Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York. He was Visiting Professor at DePaul College of Law and Stetson College of Law, and Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is Life Member, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He received a Fulbright grant to teach at Universidad de San Pedro, in Peru.

He has for many years been accredited to the United Nations to represent the National Bar Association, and also represented the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. He is accredited to the UN through his school’s human rights program he founded. He has taught, lectured, presented papers, and participated in conferences in dozens of countries.

Read full bio here: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/human-rights/director-profile.html.

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