National Jurist - January 2008 - (Page 56) Asia Matt Carroll 2L, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Ind. Hong Kong, Russia Carroll initially wanted to study international human rights, but after getting a bitter taste of the reality of international law, he decided that his energy would be better spent studying the relationship University of New Mexico School of Law, Southwestern University School of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law & the Universidad de Guanajuato Facultad de Derecho, Guanajuato, Mexico in cooperation with the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute CLASSES IN INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW June 1–29, 2008 • Overview of Mexican Business Law • NAFTA & Trade in the Americas • Comparative Constitutional Law • International Business Transactions • Political, Economic & Social Issues Impact on Mexican Law EXTERNSHIP June 30–July 12, 2008 • Mexican Legal Systems & Social Development For Application & Information Brochure: Summer Law Institute, Latin American and Iberian Institute, MSC02 1690, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 TEL (505) 277-6843 • FAX (505) 277-5989 E-mail: rcote@unm.edu • Web Site: mexicanlawclasses.unm.edu between international economic law and global poverty. “I realized that my education could not be complete sitting in a classroom in Bloomington, so I took advantage of Indiana University’s partner institutions to focus my education and broaden my life experience,” he said. In Moscow, he studied how international trade and direct foreign investment can help develop poor economies during the summer of 2006. At the University of Hong Kong, his studies focused on the tensions between national development policy and international economic law during the spring 2007 semester. “I chose to study in untraditional locations because I wanted my legal education to be complemented with an onthe-ground perspective of how globalization has touched developing economies and people on other sides of the planet,” Carroll said. While in Hong Kong he explored the South China Sea, where both pirates and Japanese kamikazes once ruled, and spent China Ming Festival, the day Chinese spend at the cemetery honoring dead family members, with a new friend on his family’s burial ground in the jungle on a remote island. But not all of his experiences were so immediately rewarding. Carroll got hustled in Shanghai and mobbed by beggars and prostitutes in the Philippines. While these experiences were not exactly on his travel itinerary, they forced him to reflect on the state of affairs in the places he visited and the role poverty plays in urban society. These encounters served as invaluable affirmations that something must be done to fight poverty in the poor world. “I want for it to be my life’s work,” Carroll said. “My legal education in Bloomington, Moscow and Hong Kong has literally taken me around the globe and helped me figure out how to pursue my dreams of a more egalitarian world.” January 2008 56 THE NATIONAL JURIST http://chinaprogram.tjsl.edu http://chinaprogram.tjsl.edu http://mexicanlawclasses.unm.edu http://mexicanlawclasses.unm.edu
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