The University of Miami School of Law supports networking opportunities for students. Five Miami Law students attended the prestigious ASIL conference, whose midyear meeting was hosted last year at the University of Miami. The students, all enrolled in Miami Law's top-ranked LL.M. programs, participated, networked, and represented the School of Law.
"It was a great experience and opportunity to attend the meeting," said Ali Al Ameen, a joint international arbitration LL.M./J.D. student from France and Lebanon. "The speakers were among the most reputable individuals in the legal industry, and it was a great opportunity to participate and share unique perspectives on various issues. I appreciated the chance to gather with leaders from the top of the legal industry. Sharing knowledge and connecting with them was an awesome experience."
Students represented three of the School of Law's graduate law programs: international arbitration, international law, and U.S. and transnational law for foreign-trained lawyers, and included students from Miami Law's intensive legal English and J.D. joint degree study options. The group was very international, with students from Colombia, France, Lebanon, Ukraine, and the United States.
"The opportunity to attend the American Society of International Law's 2023 annual meeting has been one of the most interesting and rewarding experiences of my law school career," said Hannah Lamberg, a joint international law postgraduate and J.D. student from the U.S. "I found that being enrolled as a Joint J.D./LL.M. in international law student helped to better understand the legal issues discussed at the conference.
"While attending panels on sexual and gender-based violence and comparative religious law, I asked questions to several speakers regarding the presentations. I also enjoyed meeting lawyers, international law practitioners, researchers, and other law students at the conference. This experience has solidified my interest in international law," she said.
University of Miami is a longstanding academic partner with ASIL, which gives students access to robust career development resources and programs and complimentary registration at many ASIL events such as the one in D.C.
ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950, whose mission is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations based on law and justice. The society's nearly 4,000 members from more than 100 nations include attorneys, academics, corporate counsel, judges, representatives of governments and non-governmental organizations, international civil servants, students, and others interested in international law.
Also attending the conference were Anastasiia Sydorenko, an international arbitration LL.M. student from Ukraine; Paula Fields, an intensive legal English and international LL.M. student from Colombia; and Yuliya Kwong, an intensive legal English and U.S. and Transnational Law LL.M. student from Ukraine.
Sydorenko is the recipient of one of Miami Law's two full scholarship opportunities to graduates of a Ukrainian law school. Additionally, the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partnered with a gift to create the Orrick Graduate Law Student Support Fund at Miami Law to provide financial assistance for fees and living expenses to Miami Law graduate students pursuing an LL.M. degree who are experiencing financial and other personal hardship due to events in Ukraine.
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