6/16/04

6/16/04 Northwestern Law Welcomes International LLM/Kellogg Students

This June Northwestern Law welcomes a group of accomplished international attorneys as part of the Graduate Program in Law and Business (LLM/Kellogg) Class of 2005. These 18 attorneys will bring their professional and cultural perspectives from Japan, Taiwan, China, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Costa Rica, Venezuela, France, Thailand, and Israel when they arrive for orientation on Wednesday, June 16.

Designed for business lawyers educated outside the United States, the 12-month LLM/Kellogg program offers students a unique opportunity to study both business law and management techniques at two of America 's leading schools in the fields of law and business--the Law School and the Kellogg School of Management. Graduates of the program are awarded a master of laws (LLM) and a certificate in business administration.

Students begin this summer taking Business Associations (taught by professor Jim Speta) and a modified Communication and Legal Reasoning course (taught by clinical assistant professor Elizabeth Inglehart). They will also take Math Methods for Management Decisions and Accounting for Decision Making from Kellogg faculty.

Students enrolled in the LLM/Kellogg program are experienced international corporate lawyers with an average of about four years of work experience. Some have been in-house lawyers, associates in large law firms; others have worked for banks, government agencies, and large corporations.

Northwestern Law is preparing them for a world where international lawyers and businesses drive significant political and economic changes as they open markets, put investment capital to new uses, and challenge human rights abuses.