Fulbright Scholar Program: Field of Law

The announcement below is courtesy of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combined teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the 2016-2017 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators, as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. 

This year, the Fulbright Scholar Program is offering over 80 awards in the field of Law. Exciting opportunities are available in many countries, including but not limited to: 

• Bulgaria: Law
• Burma: All Disciplines (Law among preferred disciplines)
• East Asia and the Pacific: Cross-Strait Studies
• Ghana: Law
• Jamaica: All Disciplines (Law among preferred disciplines)
• Jordan: Public Policy and International Relations
• Nepal: All Disciplines (Law among preferred disciplines)
• Norway: International Courts and Tribunals
• Sweden: Fulbright-Lund University Chair in Public International Law 

For further awards in the field of Law, please visit our new Opportunities in Law webpage. There you will find award highlights and examples of successful projects in the discipline. 

For eligibility factors, detailed application guidelines and review criteria, please follow this link. You may also wish to register for one of our webinars or join our online community, My Fulbright, a resource center for applicants interested in the program.  

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and the current competition will close on August 3, 2015.
We are happy to answer any questions you may have regarding any of the opportunities listed above or the Fulbright Scholar Program in general. 

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. For more information, visit eca.state.gov/fulbright.

Global Anti-Corruption Officer and Vice-President of Wal-Mart to join Rule of Law Class

We are pleased to share that tomorrows Rule of Law Class will be joined by special guest Tom Gean, Global Anti-Corruption Officer and Vice-President of WalMart. This is an honor and a wonderful opportunity for us. Mr. Gean began his legal career as an associate at Alston & Bird LLP. He then became the Prosecuting Attorney for Sebastian County and, later, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. He joined Walmart in 2004 as its Chief Legal Compliance Officer (U.S.) and Vice-President. He became Walmart's Global Anti-Corruption Officer and Vice-President in 2012.

Mr. Gean received his law degree from Vanderbilt University. He earned his Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he was captain of the U of A swimming team.

As we've previously reported, University of Arkansas School of Law Associate Professor Christopher Kelley has taught a Rule of Law course for the J.D. and LL.M. students at Arkansas for a number of years. While in the past, the course has always included live video-conferenced discussions with attorneys from other countries, this year the student body in the course is also transnational. Students from the well-regarded Taras Shevchenko Faculty of Law in Kyiv, Ukraine are participating in the class by live video conference.

Professor Christopher Kelley teaches at Belarusian State University

In March, Professor Christopher R. Kelley returned to Minsk to teach a course in Negotiation Skills to  undergraduate students majoring in Business Administration and English at the School of Business and Management of Technology of Belarusian State University. Professor Kelley was the first American law professor to teach at the Belarusian State University Law Faculty in Minsk, Belarus. As noted in the article posted on the BSU webpage, Professor Kelley's extensive professional business, legal and teaching experience, obtained in the US, as well as in Lithuania, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and other countries allowed Professor Kelly to accumulate and compare his impressions and experiences and develop a practical course on negotiating. More information on Professor Kelley's visit may be found on the BSU webpage.