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"Unfortunately, there are many job postings that seek to take advantage of our longing to stay in the United States and the methods by which some try to defraud our American Dream become more sophisticated every day."

Ana Vnukova, of Kyiv, escaped Ukraine on day 10 of the war. She is now one of eight fully funded Ukrainian lawyers, sponsored by CILE, who arrived in August at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law as part of the newly launched Ukrainian Legal Assistance Project.

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 in the program will advocate for action to address Afghanistan’s human rights situation.

Notre Dame Law School in Indiana has added an exchange program opportunity with Strathmore Law School in...

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.

In late May, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law launched the Ukrainian Legal Assistance Project to...