An Interesting Offer from London
A Message from Professor Loukas Mistelis
Director of International Programmes, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London (www.ccls.edu)
The academic community of the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London (www.qmul.ac.uk), wishes to express its sincerest sympathy to the people of New Orleans. Natural phenomena are impossible to control but we do hope that life will go back to normal before long. We want to assist to the extent possible.
We can offer a placement to 20-25 law students from New Orleans (Loyola and Tulane) to attend the ABA accredited Semester in London programme.
We will need to have your expression of interest via email by 16 September 2005.
A few basic data
• Our fall terms runs from 3 October to 16 December 2005
• Our orientation programme starts on Monday 26 September
• You may take up to five courses out of a list of approximately 50 courses
• We will assist you to find accommodation and will provide a social programme for you while in London, including a tour of legal London, and an excursion outside London as well as a Thanksgiving lunch
• The fee for the semester is £3500
• Most of our courses take a comparative approach and are therefore suitable to both common and civil law streams; there is a strong focus on commercial and international subjects; you will have free choice of courses
• Preference will be given to 3L
• Registration timelines will be waived, and students word will be accepted as to their good standing until the universities reopen
• You are not required to register through the University of Texas
You may find more information under www.ccls.edu and http://www.ccls.edu/documents/texas_2005.doc
If you have any questions feel free to contact our international programmes administrator Mrs Sandra Baird, at s.a.baird@qmul.ac.uk or at +44 20 7882 5733, or Ms Angie Raymond, our Louisiana relief coordinator (and Loyola alumna) and law lecturer at our Centre for Commercial Law Studies, at a.raymond@qmul.ac.uk.