LSJ Study Abroad

The Law, Societies, and Justice program encourages its students to explore the law within a myriad of social contexts. Our committment to internships provides diverse experiential learning opportunties close to home. For those interested in law within a non-US context, however, LSJ provides excellent Study Abroad programs. These opportunities give students the chance to learn about the law in an often unfamiliar social context. Led by LSJ and/or Law School faculty members, our Study Abroad programs offer a small-group learning situation where undergraduates interact directly with accomplihsed UW faculty, bringing together the best of both worlds: the resources of a research institution, and the intimacy of small classes.

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LSJ Rome

Read more about this exciting study abroad opportunity offered for 4 weeks during the early Fall 2009 (August 26 - September 24) at the University of Washington’s Center in Rome, Italy.

Further information about the program can be found here.

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Guatemala Exploration Seminar

"The Shifting Terrain of Human Rights in Contemporary Guatemala."

• Angelina Godoy, UW Jackson School of International Studies and LSJ Program

Between 1960 and 1996, an estimated 200,000 Guatemalans lost their lives, the majority of them Mayan peasants massacred by agents of their own government; in 1999, a UN-sponsored truth commission concluded that the country had witnessed a genocide. Today, human rights concerns remain paramount: while survivors struggle for justice in the country’s beleaguered court system and before international institutions, a fragile civil society still reeling from the ravages of war is now grappling with new challenges posed by globalization, neoliberal development, and new foreign policy dictates (such as the US’ wars on drugs and terrorism). This interdisciplinary seminar explores how scholars, aid workers, policymakers and human rights advocates seek to address the legacies of genocide while adapting to confront new challenges. In addition to regular instruction in the classroom by both Prof. Godoy and Guatemalan experts, students will visit human rights-relevant sites in the rural highlands, speak with survivors of the scorched earth campaign, and learn from those working on their behalf.

For more information: http://faculty.washington.edu/agodoy/Guatemala%20study%20abroad.html

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CHID International Programs and the UW International Programs and Exchanges

These two program offices are non-LSJ resourses for study abroad that may be of great interest to our LSJ students. CHID is connected to the Comparative History of Ideas department, and IPE is the broader, university-wide resource for study abroad opportunities. You can access the offices via the following links:

CHID International programs

UW International Programs and Exchanges

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