Who will be most directly affected by LL.M. Roadmap?
What do these international students want? How LL.M. Roadmap serves international student goals? Why do international students want a U.S. law degree? When do international students need information contained inLL.M. Roadmap? |
Thousands of international students who want a U.S. law degree. International students’ advisors, professors, scholarship providers. US Embassies & Consulates who advise international students. Wall street and small town lawyers. In-house counsel and government lawyers. Many others around the globe.
To receive a U.S. law degree. LL.M. Roadmap informs international students:
Many reasons. To prepare for the globalized marketplace. To become a professor or judge. To get a better job or earn more money. To specialize. To better represent foreign clients in the U.S., or U.S. clients in foreign countries. To take a U.S. bar exam and practice in the U.S. To be better able to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms. Now. And in the foreseeable (and unforeseeable) future. |
Many international students, including my own students, have told me they wish LL.M. Roadmap had been available when they were considering law study in the U.S. Many LL.M. students and graduates have reviewed this manuscript, and offered suggestions and comments, which are reflected herein. Also reflected are comments by professors and administrators of many different U.S. and overseas law faculties and LL.M. programs, U.S. State Department employees and affiliates, and foreign government officials.
U.S. law schools are motivated by many factors when they decide to offer LL.M. degree programs for international students. International students are motivated by many factors when they decide to pursue an LL.M. in the U.S. Foreign governments are motivated by many factors when they supply scholarships to their students to study in the U.S.; and the U.S. government is motivated by many factors when it offers scholarships to international students to study here under the Fulbright, Muskie and other programs. All stakeholders involved can achieve their goals through transnational education—students learning in another country’s educational system. Importantly, transnational education can help students reach their academic, personal, professional and career goals. Irrespective of motivations, cross-cultural education promotes the exchange of ideas across borders, cultivates mutual understanding among disparate peoples, and encourages recognition of the universal characteristics of members of the human family. Students studying law in other countries promote the greater goals of international peace and security and the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms around the globe. We are all better off because of overseas education. I dedicate this book to international students and graduates for whom the study of law in the U.S. is, was, or will become a reality. I have heard from so many people around the world that studying law in the U.S. is an extremely positive and rewarding experience for international students, and I hope this is true for you and for everyone you touch in your personal and professional lives after you receive your U.S. law degree. Any thoughts or insights our readers have on graduate law study in the U.S. are welcomed, and I invite you to share them with me so that I may pass them on to others. I look forward to including some of your apt and illuminating thoughts and insights in the next edition of LL.M. Roadmapor on www.LLMRoadMap.com. Please send comments via e-mail (LLMRoadMap@yahoo.com) or via website (www.LLMRoadMap.com) |
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![]() Professor Edwards is donating all personal profits from sale of the first edition of LL.M. Roadmap to the International Law Students Association (ILSA) (www.ILSA.org), which administers the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (White & Case) in 500 law schools in about 100 countries on 6 continents.
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