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Law S.chool News

Alan Y. Abrahamson

Summer Abroad Programs Rebound

La"". school summer sessions abroad, some of which were canceled or scaled down in 1986 because of the threats of terrorism or nuclear radiation, are filling up fast this year, officials say. Last year, officials at law schools at Tem- ple University, Tulane University and the University of Minnesota called off programs at several locations, citing fears of terrorist acts against Americans. Some California law schools' programs were cut back as well. About 40 students were enrolled at the McGeorge School of Law's 1986 London pro- gral_II when the United States bombed Libya April 15, s_a1d Ro~rt F. Taylor, assistant dean for rnternabonal studies . Only 27 showed, he said. A full house o~ WI h~d enrolled by April 'l:l, 1~, for the tlniveF61~· 9f San Diego's Rus- s1a/Pola~d program, said Herbert I. La- zerow, director of the school's overseas summer institute. The next day the Cherno- byl disaster was disclosed. Only 16 students and two faculty members eventually went, Lazerow said. Santa Clara University's 1985 program in Oxford attracted 44 students said George J Alexander, director of the ~chool's foreig~ summer schedule. The 1986 Oxford program drew 20, he said. This year, Tulane is offering all its four programs, Temple all its five and Minnesota both of its two, officials at the schools said last week. McGeorge's 1987 London lineup already has 40 students enrolled, Taylor said. "It's gangbusters," he said. ~cGeorge also will sponsor programs in Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Vienna/Budapest Taylor said. ' The San Diego computer, Lazerow said, showed 208 enrollments for the school's vari- ous progra1!18 as of March 1, 1987. Most years, he said, the school has received 115 to 130 enrollments by March 1. Besides Russia/Poland, San Diego will send students to programs at Dublin Lon- don, Oxford, Paris, and Mexico City. ' Santa Clara already has 32 Oxford appli- cants1 Alexander said. Enrollments are aheao of 1986 for its Hong Kong and Singa- pore/Bangkok programs and "encourag- ing" for its Tokyo and Strasbourg/Geneva programs, Alexander said. At the University of San Francisco, direc-

tor Jeff Brand predicted its 1987 program at Dublin would enroll over 30 students. The 1986 program saw 23, he said. "My hunch is that a lot of people who would have gone last year but for the threat of terrorism are going this year," Lazereiw said. What has surprised the various directors the most about the 1987 enrollments is thaf !hey are occurring ~espite the drop, dramat- ic m some countries, m the value 0£ the dollar. v " "My prediction was that this was not golng to be a good year," Lazerow said. "I find it a little difficult to attribute." In all, 31 ARA-approved law schools will run 51 programs this summer m22 countries said Kathleen S. Grove, assistant to th~ ABA's consultant on legal education. Those numbers are up, too, from 1986, when 28 schools ran 41 programs in 20 countries. In~reased coml_l8tition prodded San Diego, for instance, which Lazerow said was the fourth American law school ever to offer summer study abroad, to change its bro- chure from a plain pamphlet to a four-c !or 26-page guide. ' "If the competition goes to four colors you're not sure whether that influences peo'. pie," Lazerow said. "But you have to com- pete to keep yourself attractive." In part because of the rising number of foreign summer programs, the ABA's Ac- creditation Committee, after a three-year study, recently adopted evaluation criteria for program approval. Among them is a re- quirem':nt that a "significant portion" of an academic program be "substantially relat- ed" to the "socio-legal environment" of the host country or have an "international or comparative focus." The ABA plans to enforce the criteria with an inspection every five years, according to an ABA memorandum. ••• IN ANOTHER travel-related item a Whit- tier College law professor plans t~ lead a leg!il study tour for attorneys of the Soviet Uruon. Professor Michael J. Bazyler will lead the two-week tour, set to leave New York June 10 and include.visits to !'-{osc?w and Leningrad. Its emp~as1s, he said, will be on meetings with Soviet lawyers and visits to Soviet legal institutions. Bazyler, who was born in the Soviet Union came tothe United States in 1964. Among th~ ~ourses ~e teaches at Whittier are several in mternational and comparative Jaw. Although the tour is aimed at attorneys fal_Ilily and_ friends . are welcome, Bazyler said. More 1nformation, he said, is availabl1t from the tour organizer, Professional Semi- nar Consultants, Inc., at (516) 536-7292. • • • DORSEY D. ELLIS Jr. has been named law school dean at Washington University at St. Louis, the school has announced. Ellis, 48, is currently a professor oflaw and v\ce-president ~f finance for university ser- vices at the University of Iowa. A graduate of the University of Chicago law school, Ellis is on the editorial board of the U.S. Supreme Court Economic Review Board. He also serves as a consultant to the Iowa attorney general's office and to the Federal Trade Commission's consumer pro- tection bureau. ~!~is will take over as dean on Aug. 1 from Philip_Shelton, who has been acting dean for the prior two years, a school official said.

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A lot of help is offered...at a price, but it's a gamble for undocumented By Nancy Cleeland Staff Writer L uis Rodriguez came to San Diego County from a small village in central Mexico Yet the law is pitted with excep- tions and qualifications. Some reg- ulations won't be finally approved until late March, only about a month before the Immigration and Naturalization Service begins ac-

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• San Diego political consultant Matt Potter said he will soon mar- ket bilingual audiocassette tapes for employers, narrated by Los Angeles attorney Josie Gonzales. Gonzales, who has been making presentations to employer groups and unions the past few months, said she plans to have a videocas- sette and book on the market with- • in 60 days. • INS investigators said counter- feiters are already compiling packages of faked documents to establish residency, such as rent receipts and utility bills. San Diego

one family member qualifies and another does not? So much is uncertain, the only sure bet now seems to be this: In the swirl of confusion and appre- hension, there are big profits to be made. • Los Angeles businessman Russ Greene has already sold more than 4,000 copies of a 60-minute video- cassette tape entitled "Your Right to Immigration," in which a Span- ish-speaking attorney explains the new law. Wholesale, the tape is $40. Greene said he is planning an updated bilingual version soon.

investigator Arnold Flores said he expects that activity to increase after filing begins. "Right now, most of the fraudulent documents being produced are for the em- ployer sanctions, to show employ- ers when th~y apply for a job," he said. Faked "green cards" are most popular, and can sell for $50 to $1,000, "depending on the quality and the location and how gullible the person is," he said. • Some San Diego immigration attorneys started advertising their See AMNESTY on Page D-7 ,.

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seven years ago. He has lived a modest - and undocumented - life since then, earning enough money from a series of dishwash- ing jobs to eventually send for his wife and two sons. Rodriguez and his family would seem to be ideal candidates for "amnesty" under the new immi- gration law, because they have lived here continuously since 1982.

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cepting applications on May 5. Rodriguez is confused, as are thousands of other potential appli- cants and employers of undocu- mented workers who will also be affected by the new law. Will occasional trips to Mexico, use of a false Social Security num- ber, or a gap in residency docu- ments disqualify them? What if

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