{"id":117,"date":"2011-02-06T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T18:50:17","slug":"kate-van-akin-jd-11-recently-returned-from-a-semester-abroad-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2011\/02\/06\/kate-van-akin-jd-11-recently-returned-from-a-semester-abroad-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Van Akin (JD \u201911), recently returned from a semester abroad in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve just completed what was probably my favorite semester of law school \u2013 a semester at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London! \u00a0I chose to go to SOAS specifically because I wanted to specialize in Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, and I wasn\u2019t disappointed. \u00a0While at SOAS, I had the chance to conduct research under the direct supervision of some of the leading scholars in the field, and I have formed lasting professional and personal relationships with professors and students from all over the world. The opportunity to focus in-depth on a niche subject matter by attending a leading international university has enriched my overall experience at law school tremendously, as has the opportunity to be a part of a different community for a semester (the level of student activism and student protesting in London was fascinating!).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve just completed what was probably my favorite semester of law school \u2013 a semester at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London! \u00a0I chose to go to SOAS specifically because I wanted to specialize in Middle Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2011\/02\/06\/kate-van-akin-jd-11-recently-returned-from-a-semester-abroad-in-london\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37341],"tags":[73812,5107],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-semester-abroad","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}