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visit the Court of Justice of the EU, the International
Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal
Court (ICC).
“In Luxembourg, we’ll be visiting this summer
with Eleanor Sharpson, the English-speaking
advocate general of the Court of Justice of
the EU,” says Gaspardo. “Our students get to
meet with some of the most distinguished
lawyers who form the judiciary of Europe. No law
student can have access to these institutions and
people on his or her own; this is a real advantage
achieved through our three decades of successful
program development.”
As Asia’s role in the global economy expands,
the China program founded by Gaspardo in
2008 has become one of the most popular of the
summer law offerings. Hosted at The Beijing Center,
a Jesuit-operated enterprise on the campus of the
Beijing University of International Business and
Economics, the law program exposes students to
international business trends by focusing largely
on commercial and business law. This summer,
for instance, courses include Introduction to
Chinese Law and the Legal System, International
Commercial Arbitration, and International and
Comparative Employment Law.
Although slightly fewer students are currently
participating in summer study-abroad programs,
shorter international experiences are growing in
popularity. Spring break field studies and a London
program tucked between Christmas and spring
semester offer students immersive experiences in
other legal cultures without breaking the bank or
requiring weeks off work. In these briefer programs
as well as their longer summer counterparts,
students get unparalleled access to key legal
figures and institutions not ordinarily available to
law students.
Professor Diane Geraghty, whose contacts
within the ICJ and ICC will open extra doors to
Loyola students in The Hague this summer, also
teaches an annual global law seminar focusing on
a different country each year. The course includes
a spring break research and service component in
that country.
Second-year student Elizabeth Youakim
traveled to Thailand as part of this year’s seminar.
Like students in previous trips to Tanzania, India,
South Africa, and Turkey, Youakim was able to visit
a variety of educational, religious, service, and
other organizations as part of her research on child
sex trafficking in Thailand.
“It was a great experience to be able
to talk to people in Thailand’s legal and non-profit
communities and see for ourselves how
they’re handling these worldwide issues,” says
Youakim, whose course research paper, written
with fellow students Annie Park and Chlece Neal,
takes a trauma-focused, victim-centered approach
to protecting survivors of child sex trafficking.
Associate Dean for Administration James
Faught has been leading the two-week London
Comparative Advocacy program over winter break
for 24 years—long enough that he has his own key
to the Middle Temple Inn of Court, ground zero
for the development of our common law and a
700-year-old training ground for lawyers. He enjoys
a solid friendship with Colin Davidson, the Middle
Temple’s on-site director of development.
Faught met Dorian Lovell-Pank, now
queen’s counsel, on a long-ago solo visit to the
Old Bailey, the world’s most famous criminal
LEARNING IN A CHANGINGWORLD
court. “I watched him defend a rather deranged
arsonist and really wanted my students to see
him, because he was so good,” Faught recalls.
Lovell-Pank and Judge Anthony Leonard, who
was recently called to the bench after a
distinguished career as a queen’s counsel, “have
become the godfather and guardian angel of the
program,” Faught says. “We’ve grown up together
and I’ve seen their careers blossom. They’ve been
enormously loyal, speaking to our students,
inviting us to their homes, and taking us to court
to watch them in action.”
A course taught every spring, Comparative
Law Seminar: Chile, includes an immersion
component at the Jesuit Universidad Alberto
Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, over spring break. In
addition to hearing guest lectures from a variety
of Chilean legal experts, students visit the central
criminal court and hear from Judge Jorge Saez;
tour an appellate court with Judge Manuel
Antonio Valderrama providing commentary;
check out the supreme court; and visit the Carey
Law Firm, Chile’s largest, where senior partner
Guillermo Carey or another partner speaks to the
group. Through their research projects, students
also meet Chileans in business, government, and
social welfare.
“That’s real access—up close and personal
with judges, lawyers, and other professionals who
know our program and are delighted to speak
with our students each year,” says Haney. “Our
students get a wonderful introduction to another
legal system in just a few days.”
Loyola’s American law students aren’t
the only ones who gain from exposure to
international legal professionals, institutions,
and methods. Both the new LLM Program for
International Lawyers and the LLM in Rule of
Law for Development attract attorneys from all
over the globe.
The LLM Program for International Lawyers
brings international attorneys to Chicago for
highly personalized and flexible study. Directed
by Insa Blanke, the program offers two options.
Immersion in U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers is
designed for foreign lawyers who plan to sit
for the New York bar exam or stay in the U.S. to
practice. International Law with a Focus Option
gives students the ability to design their own
curricula. In addition to required classes on U.S.
and international law, students may elect to focus
on arbitration, mediation, and negotiation, or on
areas of law including business and tax, child and
family, competition, health, intellectual property,
or international trade.
P
rofessor of Law James T. Gathii
was inducted as the School
of Law’s Wing-Tat Lee Chair in
International Law at a March ceremony
at the Philip H. Corboy Law Center.
At the ceremony, Gathii delivered
the 2013 Wing-Tat Lee Lecture in
International Law, “Judicial Activism in
Africa’s International Trade Courts.”
Other speakers included international
law scholars Penelope Andrews,
president and dean of Albany Law
School, and Makau Mutua, dean, SUNY
Distinguished Professor, and Floyd H.
and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at
SUNY Buffalo Law School.
Gathii most recently served
as associate dean for research and
scholarship and Governor George
E. Pataki Professor of International
Commercial Law at Albany Law School.
He has worked throughout his career to
establish legal and economic structures
designed to prevent and remedy
human rights violations in Africa. Gathii
has published more than 60 articles
and book chapters, and two books,
African Regional Trade Agreements As
Legal Regimes
(Cambridge University
Press, 2011) and
War, Commerce, and
International Law
(Oxford University
Press, 2010). He holds an LLB degree
from the University of Nairobi, Kenya;
an SJD degree from Harvard Law
School; and a diploma in the practice
of law (admitted as an advocate of
the High Court of Kenya) from Kenya
School of Law.
As the Wing-Tat Lee Chair, he will
pursue teaching and scholarship, and
bring to the School of Law international
conferences, lectures, and exchange
programs for students and faculty.
VISIT LUC.EDU/LOYOLALAW
TO READ GATHII’S PROFILE IN THE FALL 2012 ISSUE OF
LOYOLA LAW.
James T. Gathii discussed
judicial activism in Africa’s
international trade courts
in his inaugural Wing-Tat
Lee Lecture.
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Gathii inducted asWing-Tat Lee
Chair in International Law
Elizabeth Youakim and other students in Professor
Diane Geraghty’s Global Law Seminar in Bangkok,
Thailand, spent a morning at a school assisting
underprivileged children as part of the course’s
service learning component.
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