Ophelia Kemigisha is a Ugandan human rights lawyer that has been recognized for her legal activism work in both feminism and LGBTQ rights. She has also studied in the U.S. for law school to further her education in the legal field.
Kemigisha was interviewed for Georgetown University Law Center’s Georgetown Legal English Blog in its “Master of Laws Interviews Project.” In Season 1: Episode 9, she shares how to succeed in law school as an internationally trained lawyer.
The Blog is written and edited by Georgetown Legal English faculty and provides curated insights to help internationally trained lawyers establish and develop their U.S. legal career.
In advocating for anyone to take the step into activism and the legal career, Kemigisha says:
“So much of our lives are formed by the law. And the law is made, written, and defined by power structures. Activism is about challenging power or about redistributing power or about rethinking the way power is distributed, then we need as many people in the law as we can get.”
She explains that law school can be difficult and there is a lot of legal jargon that can be hard to grasp at first. But through the process she has greatly appreciated the fact that she has become to think and write more like a lawyer over her time in law school. Read more of her story here.
