Robel, Hoffmann Travel to Finalize Korea and China Partnerships
In China,
In November, Dean Lauren Robel, JD'83, traveled to China and Korea, and Acting Executive Associate
Dean Joseph Hoffmann to Korea, to finalize new partnership agreements with top-ranked law schools in those two countries.
In China, Dean Robel, together with new IU President Michael McRobbie and IU Vice President for International Affairs Patrick O'Meara, signed an agreement with the School of Law at Zhejiang University, one of China's top three institutions of higher learning. The Zhejiang agreement will foster exchanges of students and visiting scholars, and will also promote joint research activities and possible cooperative degree programs.
In Korea, Robel and Hoffmann executed agreements with four law schools ranked among the top 10 in that country: Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, Ewha Woman's University, and Chung-Ang University. Over the past several years, Korea has emerged as the country with the largest number of Indiana Law LLM and SJD students and alumni. In 2009, legal education in Korea will change from an undergraduate to a graduate-school model, and these new agreements will ensure a continued high level of cooperation and exchange between Indiana Law and four of the leading law schools in Korea.