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LETTER FROM THE DEAN Prospective students often ask us whether a KU Law degree amounts to a one-way ticket to practicing law in Kansas. It’s true that a majority of our graduates take jobs in Kansas and the Kansas City metro area. In fact, we devoted the entire Fall 2013 issue of this magazine to the many ways KU Law serves the Sunflower State. We’re proud of that tradition. It’s also true, however, that KU Law graduates live and work in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 18 foreign countries. We hone in on the international arena in this issue, featuring alumni and students whose work has global reach. They are lawyers who protect the world from weapons of mass destruction, financial analysts who grease the wheels of international commerce at Fortune 500 companies, and scholars who focus a comparative lens on terror detentions in the postSept. 11 era. They are young Kansans with an interest in economic development in Africa and Russia, and international students eager to assist their home countries with trade agreements and WTO negotiations. Jayhawk lawyers are everywhere, and their KU Law education helped them get there. It’s worth noting that KU Law’s international presence is not a 21st-century novelty. To be sure, rapid globalization and burgeoning overseas job opportunities have certainly accelerated our activities in this area, but those activities simply signal a continuation of a nearly 150-year-old KU Law tradition. Case in point: The list of required courses in the 1884-85 edition of the “Annual Catalogue of the Department of Law” includes International Law, and law faculty have consistently produced international and comparative law scholarship since that time. Of course we can’t know for sure what Dean Jimmy Green had in mind requiring the subject at a Kansas law school in the 19th century. My colleague Raj Bhala, associate dean for international and comparative law, speculates that Green may have recognized the state’s agricultural role in the post-Civil War era of free trade. Similarly, we recognize opportunities for KU lawyers to become leaders in emerging world markets. Consulting firm A. T. Kearney Inc. predicts the Top 20 “Cities of the Future” will include Jakarta, Manila, Addis Ababa, Mumbai and Istanbul. Students who aspire to use their law degrees in these locations — or in U.S.-based dealings with entities there — will find the tools to do so at KU. Outstanding faculty members execute our robust International and Comparative Law Program, which includes a wide range of courses, moot court and study abroad options, certificates, and internship and exchange opportunities with university partners around the world. So our answer to those prospective students wondering where they can go with a KU Law degree is simple: Anywhere you want.
Stephen W. Mazza Dean and Professor of Law