TheCenterforInternationalLegalStudies,incooperationwithlawfacultiesinEastern EuropeandtheformerrepublicsoftheSovietUnion,annuallyoffersshort-term teaching appointments to as many as 100 senior lawyers from Common Law countries.A“seniorlawyer”hasaccumulatedatleast15yearsofsignificantpracticeexperiencein theareainwhichheorsheproposestolecture.Thetermofteachingmaybefromtwo tosixweeksandthelengthofappointmentanddatesofteachingaresubjectto negotiationbetweentheappointeeandthehostuniversity.Thesubjectareasarenot limited,butthereisspecialinterestincorporateandbusinesslaw,intellectualproperty, litigation, arbitration, and criminal procedure.
All teaching appointments are made through CILS Benefactors, a 501(c)3 corporation registered as a Colorado charity. Thus, reasonable expenses associated with the assignment are tax deductible.
Since2005,nearly900teachingassignmentshavebeencompletedbytheprogram’svisitingprofessorsinBelarus, Bulgaria,Croatia,CzechRepublic,Estonia,Hungary,Kazakhstan,Kosovo,Latvia,Lithuania,Mongolia,Poland,Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, and Ukraine, as well as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Your opportunity. . . to teach, to impact the lives of young people in distant countries, to share the values of your own legal system and, most importantly, to learn.
Visiting Professorships for Senior LawyersCenter for International Legal Studies
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