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UMKC School of Law has a long established relationship with China and Chinese Law Schools , and has been inviting Chinese students to study law in Kansas City for morethan a decade. Now we have established our Chinese/American Studies Program, a larger and more formal program, including commitment of full time faculty resources to this educational activity. We have 30 students from schools in China this year, and hope to have as many as 15 or more additional students next year.

 

As before, our primary purpose in bringing Chinese students here to America is to broaden the perspective of our American students and faculty, and to bring about better preparation for the future worldwide marketplace, in which American and Chinese lawyers must cooperate. We are not interested in making a lot of money from Chinese student tuition.

 

Therefore, UMKC Law School offers a Generous Scholarship Program for LLM students. We will offer as many as twenty partial scholarships, to reduce the already low cost of our high quality LLM program. Even without the scholarship, the cost of a UMKC LLM degree is about half the cost of the same degree at many U.S. schools. With over $ 100,000 in scholarships to award, we can reduce the cost even more. Over 90 percent of the LLM graduates from UMKC who have taken the New York Bar have passed.

 

UMKC LLM graduates now serve as partners in major Chinese law firms and associates in international law firms in Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou and Hong Kong . Several others are practicing law in New York and Chicago in the U.S.

 

The statement set forth at http://www1.law.umkc.edu/academic/china/llm/overview.htm

will give you complete information about the LL.M. program at UMKC School of Law. At that website, you can watch an interview (in Chinese) with many of our current LLM candidates concerning their experiences studying in America and their experience at UMKC. You also will find email contacts for every one of our current students. You are free to contact any of them. Note that there are a wide variety of home schools and backgrounds, but still, all of them seem happy with their choice of UMKC.

 

An interview is required to qualify for admission and scholarship.

 

Professor Patrick Randolph, director of the Chinese programs at UMKC School of Law, and director of the Peking University Center for Real Estate Law, will conduct interviews for the programs. Interested candidates may arrange for an interview by contacting Ms. Nancy Kunkel, Administrative Assistant, at kunkeln@umkc.edu or by phone at 816 235 1647. It is helpful, but not necessary, to have completed your application before the interview.

 

In some schools, the Law School Administration in fact will coordinate the scheduling of interviews when Professor Randolph comes there to speak. When you contact Ms. Kunkel, she will let you know Professor Randolph’s travel schedule in China . He will be there during November, December and March.

 

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                                                                              2008年11月21日