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Where can a semester abroad take you?

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Come talk with faculty members from the Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and the University of Geneva Faculty of Law (Switzerland), HLS students who have studied abroad, and ILS staff about the wide range of opportunities available.

The Semester Abroad Program is a wonderful opportunity for Harvard Law School students to receive a semester of ungraded credit towards the Harvard J.D. degree for study at a law school overseas. The study abroad program is intended to afford students an educational experience not available at Harvard Law School – immersion in a foreign legal culture. This includes exposure to what makes the legal system function as it does – its underlying assumptions, how local lawyers think about law, what law is designed to do, and how it relates to the society more broadly. Learn more on our Semester Abroad web page.

Applications for fall 2013 semester abroad are due February 15

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A reminder that Friday, February 15 is the deadline for J.D. students to submit an application to spend the fall 2013 semester abroad. HLS has formal exchange programs in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea and Switzerland; J.D students may also conduct an independent semester abroad at law schools throughout the world.

For detailed information and application instructions, visit the semester abroad pages on our web site.

Study Abroad Coffee Hour

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HLS has exchange programs with law schools around the world, and a joint degree program with the University of Cambridge, that offer students the opportunity to study abroad. What is the same, and what’s different, about legal education in other countries?  Where do students live?  What else should you know before you go?   Come meet students from these schools who are studying at HLS, and talk with them informally about these questions and more.

Representatives from our exchange partner schools in these countries will be on hand:

  • Brazil
  • France
  • South Africa
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Monday, December 3
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Graduate Program Lounge, Wasserstein 5053

Information Session: Semester Abroad in France

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The Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (known as “Sciences Po”) was established in 1872 and is one of France’s most selective and highly regarded universities. Sciences Po Law School was created in order to train lawyers with an emphasis on critical thinking and creativity, as well as to equip them to play leadership roles in the worlds of law and business.  The law school’s main areas of academic focus include economic law, the law of globalization, and legal theory.

On Wednesday, October 24, come learn about spending a semester abroad under the HLS exchange program with Sciences Po Law School. Christophe Jamin, Dean of the Sciences Po Law School, Edith Chabre, the school’s Executive Director, students who have studied there, and International Legal Studies Staff will share first-hand experience and answer questions.

This information session will begin at 12 p.m., in the Graduate Program Lounge, Wasserstein 5053.