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Category: First Person Accounts International
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Earlier this year, Javiera Moraga Valverde graduated with an LLM from Cornell Law School and is currently working as a Foreign Associate in the international tax team at Grant Herrmann Schwartz & Klinger. In this FPA, the Chilean lawyer shares her reasons for choosing to study in the US, the trials and tribulations of sitting…
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Eugene Cheigh is currently an SJD candidate at American University Washington College of Law, where her focus is on international environmental law. Eugene pursued an LLM from Georgetown University Law Centre, her second master’s degree in law after one from Sookmyung Women’s University in South Korea.
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As most readers know by now, First Person Accounts (FPA’s) are meant to provide a first-hand account of Indian law graduates who have pursued, or are currently pursuing, a post-graduate course (be it an LLM or otherwise) from different schools across the world. The FPA (International) is meant to broaden this scope somewhat, getting non-Indian…
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The other difficulty was more of a cultural one. I was used to being quiet in class and asking my questions afterwards in Turkiye. However, in the US, students are more involved and they discuss their ideas, ask questions during the class. It was a shock at first, but I got used to it pretty…
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Kavell Joseph graduated with an LLM from the American University Washington College of Law in 2016. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago (where she is admitted as an attorney), Kavell has worked with a number of World Bank Group organisations over the years following her LLM. In this FPA, she discusses her reasons for opting for…