Summer Program in Seoul Details

Course Offering

International White Collar Crime

In this course, we will study criminal laws that regulate cross-border or overseas conduct especially those that take the form of business transactions, such as bribery, export controls, arms and drug trafficking, money laundering, securities fraud, and antitrust violations; the principles of jurisdiction that may be used to prescribe, adjudicate and enforce these crimes; enforcement mechanisms of these crimes (including transnational prosecutions); and the logistical and procedural challenges involved in the prosecution of these crimes.

International Business Transactions

Description TBD.

 

Faculty

Professor Youngjae Lee

Professor Youngjae Lee is the Director of the Fordham-Sungkyunkwan Summer Institute in International Law and Associate Dean for Research at Fordham Law School in New York.  His research focuses on criminal law and criminal procedure, and his work is published in numerous journals and is of international renown. 

As a Professor of Law at Fordham and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and UCLA School of Law, he has taught criminal law, international criminal law, criminal procedure, and torts. 

He has also held visiting positions at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and European University Institute in Florence.  He joined the Fordham faculty in fall 2005 from NYU School of Law, where he was an Alexander Fellow.  He is a 1995 graduate of Swarthmore College and a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Additional faculty TBD.

 

Internships

Participating students have the option of applying to be placed in internships with legal employers either for credit or for no credit. Internship lengths can be anywhere between two to four weeks.

Two-credit internship last three weeks and three-credit internships last four weeks. In the past, placements have been made in law firms, multinational corporations, public interest organizations, and judicial research institutes affiliated with the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Korea.

Because of the limited number of internships, those seeking one are encouraged to apply early. Internship applicants may be asked to submit additional information and be interviewed.

 

Academic Policies

The Summer Institute is accredited by the American Bar Association. Fordham’s academic rules and regulations apply for awarding academic credit. Fordham uses an “A-F” grading system.

Acceptance of any credit or grade for any course is subject to determination by the student’s home institution. All classes and internships qualify for academic semester credit hours towards the JD or LLM degree at Fordham. Fordham Law Evening Division students who are planning to transfer to the full-time day division are eligible to participate.

Non-Fordham Law students should consult their law school’s registrar to verify that the Fordham course and internship may be credited toward their degree.

Summer grades are generally available by late-July to early-August; transcript requests are free of charge and should be addressed to the Fordham Law Office of the Registrar.