Twenty students are studying abroad this summer as part of the Dean Rusk International Law Center’s Global Governance Summer School with 15 of the participants being part of the School of Law’s J.D. program. The focus of this year’s for-credit program, operated in partnership with the Leuven Centre for Global Governance, is comparative constitutional law. Site visits will include NATO, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and other international governance offices.
This summer, 24 School of Law students are gaining global practice experience with the Global Externships Overseas program through the school’s Dean Rusk International Law Center. They will enhance their legal studies by working in a variety of private and public legal settings with placements based in Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Americas.
Congratulations to first-year law student Divya Kishore who was named a recipient of the 2025 Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association Digumarthi Public Interest Scholarship, which supports law students who have accepted unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations.
Congratulations to recent School of Law graduate Aiden Meister (J.D.’24), who was honored by the Maine Board of Bar Examiners with the February 2025 Laurie A. Gibson Award for Excellence. This recognition is given to the applicant who obtains the highest essay score on the Maine Bar Examination.
Congratulations to third-year student M. Drake Jones on being named an inaugural Academic All-American Trial Advocate by the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators. Jones is one of 20 students nationwide to receive the honor, which recognizes students who have had exemplary success in courtroom advocacy competitions, modeled good leadership and fellowship within the law school community and excelled academically.