Here, we looked at six important — and surprising — lessons students can learn from the U.S. legal system, no matter what their future career goals may be.
Every year, lawyers from around the world join the school’s Graduate Studies Program. LL.M. students in this selective program have an opportunity to obtain legal education in the U.S., which may advance their careers back in their home countries or help them to pursue a career in the United States.
Joshua Alter is working his way around the world. The 2013 graduate of St. John’s University School of Law has already lectured or taught at University of Florida, St. John’s, East China University, Southwest University in China, Northwest University in China, Shanghai University, Soochow University, Beijing Jiaotong and Universidad Iberoamericana in Dominican Republic.
The project is important to Bazyler because of his personal experience as a Russian-speaking Jewish refugee. He came to America in the 1960s with his Holocaust-survivor parents.
Students and a faculty member from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) in Mexico participated in the second International Energy and Environmental Law Summer Course at the University of Houston Law Center.