A Standing Ovation for Law – Rumu Sarkar – Poland 2016
While attending a seminar at Georgetown University Law Center where I was an adjunct law professor, I happened to sit next to a Chinese law professor studying at Georgetown Law under his Fulbright Scholarship. He was, to my amazement, already familiar with my publication, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW, and promptly invited me to speak at his […]
Transcending Formalism in the Slovak Republic – Paul Joseph Carrier – Slovakia 1996
As a Fulbright Scholar to Slovakia in the mid 90’s, I became acquainted with a kindred organization: the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. While at the the Comenius University Law Faculty’s Institute of International Affairs and Law Approximation, I was further tasked with teaching legal English courses to Ministry of Justice […]
Directions from World: Famous Comparatist on Spending Year in London – Theodore J St Antoine – England 1957
Because I received a Fulbright grant to study law and economics at the London School of Economics, I was released early from my service as a U.S. Army lawyer. I was still very much under the influence of military discipline, however, when I first went to see my faculty advisor at LSE, he was Otto […]
My Father and Senator Fulbright – Thomas Lundmark – Germany 1976, 1991, 1992, and 1993
My father was the one who introduced me to the Fulbright program. Upon being discharged from the US Navy at the close of World War II, he was employed by the federal administration that sold war surplus materiel. At Senator Fulbright’s urging, the funds raised by these sales were put to use for educational foreign […]
Forging Lifelong Friendships – Cynthia A Baldwin – Zimbabwe 1994
My Fulbright was in Zimbabwe in 1994 where I taught Constitutional Law among other subjects at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. I also assisted the court with research as they wrote several landmark human rights cases. The Zimbabwean Supreme Court was only 14 years old. I have attached two photos- the top photo shows […]