2018 OXFORD PROGRAM

WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

COOLEY LAW SCHOOL ’S

5TH ANNUAL STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM

JULY 2 – AUGUST 3, 2018

(Revised 4-12-18)

Western Michigan University Cooley Law School is pleased to announce its

5th annual American Bar Association (ABA)-approved foreign study program

in Oxford, England, during the summer of 2018. Law students will

study and live in Oxford for five weeks beginning July 2 and ending August 3.

The six-credit program will be housed at Hertford College, a University of Oxford

college. Four international and comparative law courses will be taught

by law professors and practitioners.

THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM MINI automobiles are manufactured in the area. The Western Michigan University Cooley Law School Foreign Study Program in Oxford has Students may opt to live and will attend been approved by the American Bar classes hosted at the beautiful and centrally Association’s Accreditation Committee of the located campus of Hertford College. The Section of Legal Education and Admissions to program director’s office will be on campus the Bar. The program was-inspected in July, too. Please note that the University of Oxford 2014, receiving approval through 2019. and Hertford College are not awarding credit Classes do not have prerequisites. Each course for this program. is conducted in English by law professors and practitioners and meet the requirements of the Hertford College is located on Catte Street ABA. across from Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera. It also is known for the Hertford Bridge. To see and learn more about the DATES OF PROGRAM college, go to http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/ .

Residence hall check-in begins July 1, 2018. There will be an orientation for all registrants that evening followed by a walking tour of the college. A Welcome Tea will be conducted during the first week. Classes begin Monday, July 2, and will be held during the day Monday through Friday with a few exceptions on Saturday. All courses will be conducted in classrooms on the very attractive campus of Hertford College in Oxford. The program ends on August 3. The schedule will permit The Hertford bridge students to visit many of the outstanding attractions in Oxford, such as Carfax Tower, HO HOULD TTEND Oxford Castle, Oxford Botanical Garden, High W S A Street, the Rivers Cherwell and Isis (the Thames), and Ashmolean Museum. U.S. law students with an interest in comparative and international law will benefit from this program. A limited number of LOCATION students participating in LL.B. programs in

other countries may also participate upon Oxford is about 50 miles west of London in approval. Finally, anyone interested in a Oxfordshire, a central southern county in summer study abroad program in one of the Great Britain. It is the oldest university town world’s great university towns, without a in the United Kingdom, home of the language barrier, should consider participating University of Oxford. Oxford is called the city in the Oxford Program. Approval must be of dreaming spires because of the churches and granted by the Associate Dean. university buildings. There are beautiful gardens; walking and cycling paths; and, a centralized historic city centre to explore. 2

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2.25 GPA. Students from law schools other than WMU-Cooley must ask their school to UNITED KINGDOM send a letter of current good standing and an

official transcript to Western Michigan The United States and the United Kingdom University Cooley Law School verifying the have their own laws regarding entry and exit above criteria. A limited number of requirements. It is strongly recommended that international students who are currently you refer to the United States Department of enrolled in good standing in an LL.B. program State website (e.g., in another country and are fluent in English https://travel.state.gov/content/travel.html ) may also apply. We may have participants and the UK Visas and Immigration website from our exchange program with the (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisatio University of Münster and affiliation with ns/uk-visas-and-immigration ) for information Western Michigan University. Others to determine what documents are required for interested are encouraged to contact the entry into and exit from these countries. A program. Inquiries should be directed to valid passport is required for U.S. citizens. [email protected] prior to submission Any student who is not a U.S. citizen should of an application. Approval must be granted refer to the UK Visa and Immigration website by the Associate Dean. for further entry information.

Last year, 6 J.D. students participated. Past participants were from Germany, Lebanon and Switzerland.

2018 will be the fifth year of WMU-Cooley’s Oxford Program. A maximum of 25 students can participate in the program.

All applicants must submit a completed application and a nonrefundable deposit of $250, which will be credited to tuition and fees, to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. Please contact us should you wish to pay the deposit online. Guest students may

The spiral staircase at Hertford arrange with us to charge the deposit to a credit card. PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY AND The application deadline is March 15, 2018 for APPLICATION PROCEDURE WMU-Cooley students and April 1, 2018 for

guest students. WMU-Cooley will consider applications from law students who are currently enrolled in Download an application at: good standing in an ABA-accredited or state- http://www.cooley.edu/foreignstudy/england. approved law school and have completed at html . least one year of study. WMU-Cooley students Applicants must also provide an official must have completed 27 credits and have a transcript and certification from their law 3 school that they are currently in good PROGRAM standing. The Oxford Program is five weeks. Students Space is limited due to classroom size. Prior to will enroll in six credit hours. Three timely April 1 students will be accepted on a first- two-credit law courses will be offered. Final come, first-accepted basis. Students applying exams will be conducted at the end of the after April 1 will be considered and notified in program. Exams are not given early or in a timely manner if space is available. advance. Students will be promptly notified Send your application materials and deposit if classes are cancelled due to insufficient to: enrollment.

Western Michigan University The 2018 schedule has been designed to enable Cooley Law School students to participate in WMU-Cooley’s International Programs Office Toronto Program and then travel to Oxford to 2018 Oxford Program participate in that program. Many students 300 S. Capitol Avenue will take advantage of this arrangement in Lansing, MI 48933 order to earn as many as twelve credits during the summer. Travel arrangements and accommodations should not be arranged before WMU-Cooley LEGAL AND EXTRACURRICULAR officially notifies applicants of acceptance into the program. EVENTS

DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY Visits to legal institutions in Oxford and London will be scheduled. Although no

academic credit will be awarded for these Deposits are fully credited to tuition and fees. visits, they will provide an important The $250 deposit becomes nonrefundable on enrichment to the educational experience, and April 1, 2017 in the case of withdrawal from students will be expected to accompany the the program regardless of cause. The $200 professors and their classmates on these program activities fee and the $100 excursions. In 2017, students traveled to administrative fee paid to WMU-Cooley are London to visit Middle Temple and had a tour nonrefundable in the case of withdrawal from of a local court. In a more social vein, they the Oxford study abroad program regardless attended a welcome tea and a closing gala of cause once approved to participate. For dinner. Similar events will take place in 2018. other than complete withdrawals, tuition refunds for the Oxford study abroad program are made according to the Summer Study HOUSING Abroad 2018 Student Guide . Students may not reduce the total number of credit hours for There are two housing options in Oxford. which they are registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT Students may live at Hertford College or find on Monday, June 18, 2018. Tuition is their own off campus housing. Students living nonrefundable after that deadline. Students in on campus housing will have a single room are responsible for housing costs including with a sink, telephone, internet access, desk those WMU-Cooley incurs on their behalf. and wardrobe. Bathrooms and facilities will be shared. 4

In 2018, a single room at Hertford College for Tuition 34 nights with breakfast, lunch Monday ñ WMU-Cooley students pay tuition at the through Friday, internet and the 20% VAT will school’s established rate. Honors Scholars cost £3,321.60. Students who stay at Hertford apply their scholarships to the cost of the College housing are responsible for and, by program. their participation in the program, agree to pay ñ Guest students pay $650 per semester for all housing charges, including those hour. incurred by WMU-Cooley in advance on their Housing at Hertford College behalf in reliance on their application and (34 nights with breakfast, lunch M-F, deposit. internet and 20% VAT included [£3,321.60] ...... $4,642.49 WMU-Cooley will provide additional Administrative fee ...... 100 information and detailed reservation Program activities fee ...... 200 instructions for the Hertford College housing. Student Bar Association ...... 20 (WMU-Cooley students only) Financial Aid loan fee ...... 100 (WMU-Cooley students only)

Other estimated expenses for the five-week program:

Travel to and from Oxford ...... 1,300 Food ...... 1,350 Local transportation ...... 250 Supplies/books (est. $100 per course) ...... 350 Laundry ...... 150 Miscellaneous ...... 918 The Hertford College quad Supplemental health/accident insurance...... 80

TUITION , HOUSING COSTS AND FEES WMU-Cooley will issue a schedule/statement to each registrant. Payment in full is due on All tuition, housing costs and fees are made May 1, 2018, unless other arrangements have payable to the Western Michigan University been approved by WMU-Cooley. Cooley Law School in U.S. funds. The estimate of expenses for the five-week program (all in PROGRAM ACTIVITIES FEE U.S. dollars) which is being used by the WMU- Cooley Financial Aid Office is as follows. Each student pays a program activities fee that Keep in mind that prices will change with helps cover the cost of group excursions as currency fluctuations (some figures were well as social events and receptions. calculated based on currency exchange rates in January 2018).

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The State Department has new consular safety and security messaging. Carefully review this important information. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter national-travel/before-you-go/about-our-new- products.html The State Department issues a Travel Advisory for every country on the country’s own page. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter national-travel/International-Travel-Country- Information-Pages.html See a complete list of Hertford gardens Travel Advisories at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave MEDICAL AND TRAVEL INSURANCE ladvisories/traveladvisories.html . The State

Department’s travel.state.gov site provides Students are required to have medical important information for U.S. citizens insurance with minimum requirements that considering and traveling internationally. include emergency evacuation and repatriation coverage. It is highly The U.S. State Department’s country specific recommended that students obtain travel information for the United Kingdom is at insurance too. Some travel insurance policies https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter may protect students from the loss of expenses national-travel/International-Travel-Country- such as air travel and housing in the event of Information-Pages/UnitedKingdom.html . withdrawal from the program. The financial aid budget includes the cost of medical Other countries have similar services. The web insurance. page for Canada’s service for its citizens is

http://travel.gc.ca/ . Participants must provide STATE DEPARTMENT TRAVEL proof of registration with their home country’s ADVISORIES , COUNTRY service. INFORMATION , STEP REGISTRATION , All registrants will be promptly notified if, AND ITHDRAWAL W prior to the start of the program, the U.S. State Department issues a Travel Warning or Alert Students who are U.S. citizens must provide covering the dates and locations of the proof of online registration with the United program. Registrants will have the States Department of State’s Smart Traveler opportunity to withdraw and obtain a full Enrollment Program (STEP) for your travel refund of all monies paid within 20 days after during the program: withdrawal. Please note that the State https://step.state.gov/step/ Students must Department has a new travel advisories and subscribe to receive up-to-date safety and alert system using levels and risk indicators. security information, and country information, for the countries in which they will be All students will be promptly notified if, studying. during the program, the U.S. State Department issues a Travel Warning or Alert covering the dates and locations of the program. Students 6 will have the opportunity to withdraw and program, and an opportunity will be provided will be refunded fees paid, except for room for that student to withdraw and obtain a full and board payments utilized prior to the date refund of all monies advanced. Refunds will of withdrawal. Refunds will be made within be made within 20 days after withdrawal. 20 days after withdrawal. Please note that the Once the program begins, a student who State Department has a new travel advisories withdraws due to any changes to course and alert system using levels and risk offerings or other significant aspects of the indicators. program will be refunded monies paid except for room and board payments utilized prior to TRANSPORTATION the date of withdrawal.

Students are responsible for their own PROGRAM CANCELLATION AND transportation to and from Oxford. Direct TERMINATION POLICY coach transportation to Oxford is available at Heathrow Airport and Gatwick Airport. This program will be held subject only to Additional transportation options are available minor adjustments due to emergencies, or from London. After you arrive, getting around subject to force majeure. In the unlikely event Oxford is easy and fun. of a cancellation, students will be notified promptly and all money advanced by students FINANCIAL AID shall be refunded within 20 days of cancellation. Best efforts will be made to Students should contact their home school’s arrange for each enrolled student to attend a Financial Aid Office to determine their similar program, if desired, in the event of eligibility for financial aid and the deadlines cancellation after a deposit is paid. Should the needed to assure disbursement of funds in a program be terminated after it begins, students timely manner. WMU-Cooley students who will be notified promptly and will be refunded are interested in the 2018 Oxford Program fees paid except for room and board payments should contact the WMU-Cooley Financial Aid utilized prior to the date of termination. Office immediately to determine their WMU-Cooley’s Oxford study abroad program eligibility for financial aid or how this program has never been cancelled. affects their current financial aid eligibility. A copy of the 2018 financial aid budget for this INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES program will also be available to all guest students. Any persons with special requirements should discuss them with the International Programs CHANGES TO COURSE OFFERINGS OR Office before registering. OTHER SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM COURSE SELECTION , CREDIT REQUIREMENT AND DROP /A DD Any changes to course offerings or other significant aspects of the program will be Students must register for six semester hours communicated promptly to every student who of credit . Students may not reduce the total has paid a deposit or registered for the number of credit hours for which they are

7 registered as of 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, or exceeds ABA requirements, most ABA June 18, 2018. Students will be invoiced for schools will accept credit and grant the credit total as of that date. Tuition is appropriate residence. If your school will not, nonrefundable after this deadline. Students please contact WMU-Cooley Registrar Danielle are subject to the preceding conditions and the Hall at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2222, or e-mail him Summer Study Abroad 2018 Student Guide at [email protected]. Denial of credit or should they request to drop a course. residence frequently results from misunderstanding that can be resolved by GRADES direct conversation by WMU-Cooley and your dean or administrator. It is unlikely that Evaluation of students in each course will be participation in a single summer program may through a final examination. Students from be used to accelerate graduation. Students other law schools will be registering for these interested in acceleration should consult the courses as guest students, and credit for these appropriate administrator in their home classes will be presented on an official Western schools to review this issue in light of ABA Michigan University Cooley Law School Standards. transcript. It is the responsibility of guest students to contact their law school to assure LIBRARY RESOURCES that credit will transfer into their programs. Guest students should also consult with their Hertford College has library facilities available schools to determine the manner in which during the program. grades will be recorded on their schools’ transcripts. ACADEMIC PREPAREDNESS POLICY

At WMU-Cooley, most course grades are Each student at the WMU-Cooley bears based on written final examinations, responsibility to prepare and understand the administered and graded under a system that material assigned and to recite in class when assures student anonymity. called upon. If circumstances arise which prevent the student from being prepared, it is Professors adhere to established grade the responsibility of the student to notify the definitions. Within that framework, each professor before class. Each professor may professor may score the examinations establish a specific preparedness policy for differently and create a separate grading scale each course. for each course. Grades at WMU-Cooley are known for being hard-earned and truly STUDENT ATTENDANCE POLICY indicative of a student’s grasp of the subject matter. WMU-Cooley does not practice grade Attendance is the norm for every class session. inflation. There are no pre-excused absences in any class.

Students should strive for full attendance but ACADEMIC CREDIT AND RESIDENCE keep their own records of any absences and the reasons for each absence. Students with Acceptance of credit and residence required excessive absences can be dismissed from the for graduation is at the discretion of each class and may not be permitted to take applicant’s law school. As each course meets 8 examinations, receive credit for courses, or COURSE DESCRIPTIONS refunds. European Union Law CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION 1 credit / Professor Doris Long

The University of Oxford and Hertford College Examines the laws and legal institutions of the are not awarding credit for this program. European Union, studying the role of the Students who successfully complete a WMU- European Commission, European Parliament Cooley foreign study program receive a and European Court of Justice. Emphasizes certificate suitable for framing and may note the law regarding the free movement of on their curriculum vitae "Certificate, peoples, goods, services, and capital. Also (applicable year e.g., 2018) Oxford Study examines human rights protections. Abroad Program, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School." It would be a International Human Rights misrepresentation to assert that you were a 2 credits / Professor Matthew Burton student of the University of Oxford and Hertford College. Covers the many aspects of international human rights law, including relevant basic TRAVEL INFORMATION international law concepts, the impact of international human rights law on the USA, Currency Converter web page: cultural relativism (differing views of human rights), international enforcement mechanisms, www.oanda.com/convert/classic appropriate responses to human rights United Kingdom Travel: violations, freedom of expression, limits to human rights, indigenous rights, economic https://www.visitbritain.com/us/en social and cultural rights, women’s rights, and the right to democracy. State Department / Consular / Travel Information: International Law 2 credits / Professor Francis Grimal https://step.state.gov/step/ Examines public international law, covering https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave sources of international law, international ladvisories/traveladvisories.html agreements, international organizations, recognition of states, international claims and https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/trave use of force. ladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide- caution.html Modern International Contracts 1 credit / Professor Doris Long https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/inter national-travel/International-Travel-Country- Explores several of the significant legal Information-Pages/UnitedKingdom.html complexities of modern international business https://step.state.gov/step/ through the study of transnational contractual relationships and their inherent political, 9 economic and business risks. Focuses on the FACULTY theories behind best practices for the modern international contract as demonstrated by case Matthew Burton , graduated with his LL.B. studies and practical examples. Law (Hons) from the University of Leicester, an LL.M. from Sidney Sussex College, DIRECTOR University of Cambridge, and is in the final stages of his PhD at the University of Marla Mitchell-Cichon , B.S. (Youngstown Birmingham. He has been a postgraduate State University), J.D. (University of Akron teaching assistant at the Birmingham Law School of Law). Professor Mitchell-Cichon has School, University of Birmingham teaching extensive practice experience in criminal and criminal law and currently is a teaching poverty law. After serving as a public associate at Bristol Law School, University of defender, Professor Mitchell-Cichon began her Bristol, teaching Contract Law, Criminal Law, clinical teaching career in 1986, teaching in Constitutional Rights and Law and State. His clinics at the University of Akron School of PhD examines the concept of political rights Law, Case Western Reserve University Law review and the participation of parliamentary School, and the University of Dayton School of committees in human rights reasoning. In Law. She joined WMU Cooley Law School in addition to his doctoral thesis, he has an active 1995 teaching professional responsibility and interest in all areas of constitutional and in various clinics, and coordinating administrative law, human rights, public externships. Professor Mitchell-Cichon is the international law, criminal law, jurisprudence, Director of the Cooley Innocence Project. She and political theory, and has published and received the Justice for All Award from the presented in those areas. Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM) in 2006, and in 2016, the Ingham Dr. Francis Grimal , Senior Lecturer in Public County Bar Association’s Leo A. Farhat International Law , graduated with his Outstanding Lawyer Award and the Michigan LL.B. (Hons) from the University of State Bar Champion of Justice Award. The Nottingham, and to LL.M. and Ph.D. from the Cooley Innocence Project received the University of Reading. Dr. Grimal joined the Outstanding Community Contribution award University of Buckingham's School of Law in from the WMU-Cooley Student Bar 2008 and is Senior Lecturer in Public Association in 2014. Her litigation experience International Law. Previously he taught at the includes cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals undergraduate and post-graduate level at the for the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, University of Reading. He completed his the Michigan Supreme Court and trial and doctorate in international law at the University appellate courts in both Ohio and Michigan. of Reading in 2009. He is a member of the She also works on legislative reform to Committee of the International Law improve the criminal justice system. Professor Association's British Branch on Nuclear Mitchell-Cichon’s publications are in the areas Weapons, Non-proliferation and of criminal law, elder law, ethics, and clinical Contemporary International Law. His research teaching. Sh e served as the Australia/New interests include the use of force, nuclear non- Zealand Down Under on-site director in the proliferation, self-defense, collective security, 2007-2009 programs, and the 2017 Oxford humanitarian intervention, and international program. humanitarian law. Dr. Grimal has published in

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North American and European international Jiao Tung University, Shanghai, PRC. Before law journals. Dr. Grimal is the Book Review joining the faculty of John Marshall, Long was Editor as part of the editorial board for an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law the JUFIL – Journal on the Use of Force in firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, International Law , a new peer reviewed journal and Howrey and Simon where she specialized covering all aspects of the law governing the in the areas of intellectual property, unfair use of force ( jus ad bellum ), as distinct from competition, entertainment, computer, other related areas of international law. He antitrust and commercial law. She is fluent in has taught International Law in the Oxford English, French and Spanish. Program since 2014. PARKING Doris Estelle Long , is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Center for Intellectual Parking is extremely difficult in Oxford. Property, Information and Privacy Law at The Information about parking at Hertford College John Marshall Law School (Chicago). She is a will be provided as it becomes available. graduate of Cornell Law School (cum laude) Commercial parking is also available in the and holds a Certificate in Applied area. Cybersecurity, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Executive FURTHER INFORMATION Education Certificate in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, from the Kennedy Upon approval of your application, you will School of Government, Harvard University. receive a detailed student handbook for the Professor Long Continues to teach courses in Oxford Program. Anytime you have intellectual property, free speech, technology questions, we encourage you to contact us. and cybersecurity. She also teaches courses on international aspects of intellectual property International Programs Director or law, including trade and sustainable Associate Dean development, and EU comparative law, 2018 Oxford Program abroad, most recently in Australia and the International Programs Office Czech Republic. Long is the author of Western Michigan University numerous books and articles including Cooley Law School textbooks on international intellectual property 300 S. Capitol Avenue law and contracts, and a monthly column on Lansing, MI 48933 international intellectual property law (Global Phone: (517) 371-5140 IP) for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. She Fax: (517) 334-5722 E-mail: [email protected] has lectured at conferences throughout the

United States and in over 38 countries on six continents, and has taught courses in ten countries, including as a Fulbright Professor at

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OXFORD PROGRAM STUDENT CHECKLIST

INFORMATION TO WMU-COOLEY

ALL APPLICANTS :

□ Completed application form

□ Completed professionalism form

□ Completed housing form

□ Completed Student Guide acknowledgement form

□ $250 nonrefundable deposit (check or money order made payable to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School or contact us for online payment option; guest students may arrange to charge the deposit to a credit card)

□ Proof of valid passport

□ Proof of medical insurance

□ Proof of online registration with United States Department of State for your travel during the program: https://step.state.gov/step/

APPLICANTS FROM SCHOOLS OTHER THAN WMU-COOLEY :

□ Official law school transcript from home law school

□ Letter of good standing from home law school

□ Completed tuition/fee payment options form

□ Recent photograph

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