Fall 2005 - International Events [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Want to work in the Office of International Law and
Policy?
OILP seeks a student to work this term
for 10 hours per week leading to a 20 hour per week
position for summer 2006 and 20 hours per week for
academic year 2006-2007. You should have an interest in
and aptitude with international students and issues and
be careful and meticulous with documents. Please contact
Sarah Gillooly at
sgillooly@kentlaw.edu
for more information and to
make an appointment to be considered for the position.
Foreign Service Exam - Deadline to apply is March 8,
2006
Why not consider taking the test for
the Foreign Service? Click [here]
for important information about this test, which is only
given once each year.
Essay Competition: Lex Mercatoria and the WTO
Interleges
(the international association of independent
small-medium size law firms) will award a $4,000 and a
trip to Zürich to the winner of the Stephen Rayner
Award. This competition is open to all law
students and law trainees who graduated after January
2004 and are not practicing law at the present time. To
participate in the competition the applicants must
submit an essay on the subject of “Lex Mercatoria and
the World Trade Organization Law in Relation to
International Commercial Contracts.” The essay must
not exceed 5,000 words and must be submitted before
March 31, 2006. For more information about the
eligibility and the submission requirements, please
visit the Interleges website at http://www.interleges.com.
Summer 2006 – study abroad in Germany or work in
China?
Chicago-Kent
still has spaces left in the summer study abroad program
in Augsburg Germany – contact Dean
Lazar for details. If you would like to apply for an
internship working in a Chinese law firm this summer,
send your resume to Dean Lazar. There will be spots in
Shenzhen and Beijing and possibly elsewhere, and these
internships sometimes (though not always) come with
housing and stipends.
Rule of Law on Trial Posted
January 18,2005: "Rule
of Law on Trial" was literally the headline of the
Bangkok Post as I arrived in Thailand on January 15.
Angry over what many see as increasingly dictatorial
behavior of the Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ,
crowds estimated at 8,000 -10,000 strong surged toward
the Government House compound on Friday evening January
13th demanding that Thaksin resign. By 9:00 am Saturday,
40 protesters had been arrested for instigating civil
disobedience, while hundreds of others peacefully
dispersed, and the headlines stated "Demonstrators
can’t be sued if no force used" and
"Protesters have right to peaceful assembly."
My mission in Bangkok is to teach Thai lawyers and
others about the American legal system and our
democratic traditions, and it seemed I couldn’t have
found more fertile ground for the lessons on popular
sovereignty and collective action that form the
historical frame for the course. And with our own
democracy threatened by an overreaching executive,
perhaps there were lessons Thailand could teach us as
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