A Bridge to the Practicing Bar of Foreign Nations: Online American Legal Studies Programs As Forums for the Rule of Law and As Pipelines to Bar-Qualifying L.L.M. Programs in the U.S.
Van Detta & A Jeffrey
South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business2013article
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What the paper says
Sitting in Spirits, the lounge at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, I discovered that the bright young woman working as the server that afternoon was, in fact, an attorney in her home country of Ukraine. A throng of American law professors attending the January 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools surrounded Antonina; but of all the law professors there, it was with me that she felt comfortable talking about her training and work in her home country. Antonina gave up her legal career when she decided it was best for her family to immigrate to America from the difficult conditions that lay just below the surface of her homeland in the post-Soviet era. When she spoke of law, and
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