Uyghur
Oqughuchilargha Qanun Kesipde Oqush Pursiti
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to pass along
information about a legal education opportunity in Beijing
for qualified ethnic minority students in China. Temple
University is currently
recruiting
candidates for its Graduate Masters of Law program to be held starting
this
July at Tsinghua
University. (More
information is
available at http://www.law.temple.edu/servlet/RetrievePage?site=TempleLaw&page=Graduate_Masters_Law_Beijing).
John Smagula, Director of Asian Programs at Temple’s
Law School, would like to recruit
qualified
Uighur students and has asked for help in identifying eligible
candidates.
Interested applicants should already have at least an undergraduate
degree in
law or Chinese bar membership with three years of legal experience.
Applicants
need not take the LSAT, but candidates who have not taken TOEFL should
be
available to take an English exam held in Beijing
on May 17. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please ask
her or him
to contact John directly at 1.215.204.8953 or john.smagula@temple.edu
Temple has been a leader in promoting legal
education
programs in China—a
relatively new field for formal professional study given former lax
regulations
for bar entry—and John has been active in the Chinese legal community
for many
years. Please let interested applicants know that they should not at
all
hesitate to contact him, and they can use either Mandarin or English.
John has
been a mentor to many law students and is eager to encourage broader
participation in Temple’s
program.
According to statistics from
2007, just seventeen percent of Xinjiang’s lawyers were members of
ethnic
minority groups. I do not have data on the language capabilities of
this group,
but a shortage of legal personnel proficient in ethnic minority
languages has
been a longstanding problem.
I am sending this message to
a limited group of people who focus on Xinjiang. While I encourage you
to pass
along this information to qualified applicants or their professors,
please do
not forward this message to list serves or other recipients. Thank you.
Best regards,
Kara
Kara Miriam Abramson
Advocacy Director
Congressional-Executive
Commission on China
242 Ford House Office
Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: 202-226-3768
Fax: 202-226-3804
www.cecc.gov
Bu
uchurni teminliguchi:
Dr. Ayxem Eli
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle/Saale (Germany)
P.O. Box 11
03 51,
06017 Halle/Saale (Germany)
phone: +49 (0) 345-2927 206
fax: +49 (0) 345-2927 202
e-mail: eli@eth.mpg.de
internet: http://www.eth.mpg.de
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