Pacific McGeorge LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice

Since 1982, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law has offered a program leading to an LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice.  Several hundred lawyers from all over the world have participated in this program, with many of them going on to become leading international practitioners within their own countries.  A unique feature of this program is the possibility of completing an internship with a law firm located in a country other than where the LL.M. student first studied law.  Many graduates of the program have also gone on to take either the New York or the California Bar exams.  The Pacific McGeorge Alumni Association has an international section, and every two years 50 or more of the program's graduates gather for a meeting in a major world city.  For more information on the LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice, please visit http://www.mcgeorge.edu/ or contact Eric McElwain, Assistant Director for Graduate and International Programs at emcelwain@pacific.edu. 

http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Academic_Programs/LLM_and_JSD_Programs.htm 

 

Pacific McGeorge Graduate at Permanent Court of Arbitration

Yanying Li, a 2009 graduate from China of the Pacific McGeorge LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice program, has been hired for a position at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.  At the same time, Yanying is working on a PhD from the University of Leiden.  Soon after graduating from Pacific McGeorge, Yanying took and passed the New York Bar exam in summer 2009.

 

After taking the Bar exam, Yanying (“Lizzie”) moved to The Hague and enrolled in the University of Leiden's International Business Law LL.M. degree.  While there she chaired the student caucus and was active in working with Leiden faculty and administrators to improve their programs. 

 

Yanying comments that while there were distinct advantages in learning both the U.S. and E.U. systems, she found her program at Pacific McGeorge more rigorous than her studies at Leiden.  She adds that exposure to both the U.S. and European systems has been very useful, and she particularly praises her preparation in how to research U.S. law.