IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and Sejong University create a graduate program for Korean lawyers

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and Sejong University recently signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a graduate study program for Korean lawyers. The agreement was signed June 14 in Chicago by Dean Yul Lee of the Graduate School of Business at Sejong University and Chicago-Kent Dean Harold J. Krent. The signing was witnessed by Sejong University Professor Bryan E. Hopkins and Edward C. Harris, assistant dean and associate professor for international LL.M. programs at Chicago-Kent.

Under the terms of the agreement with Sejong University, practicing Korean lawyers will take a two-semester law program, taught in English by Chicago-Kent faculty in Seoul. Upon successful completion of the program, the lawyers will be eligible to come to the United States to pursue a master of laws (LL.M.) degree in international and comparative law from Chicago-Kent by completing an additional year of course work.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, a private, Ph.D.-granting institution with programs in engineering, psychology, architecture, business, design and law. Chicago-Kent also offers special LL.M programs and overseas training programs in Prishtina, Kosovo; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Gdansk and Wroclaw, Poland; Bangkok, Thailand; Kharkiv, Ukraine; and Buenos Aires, Argentina.