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Chile Summer Program 2012
Session One - May 20 – June 15, 2012
Session Two - June 25 - July 20, 2012
The Chile Summer Program places students in the heart of Latin America’s quest for justice and the struggle over globalization. Whether it is human rights litigation, legal reforms, or economic development, Chile has long been a leader in Latin America. After emerging from the Pinochet dictatorship, the country consolidated its democracy with a new judicial system. In Santiago, a city of more than six million people, students will experience the reform process first-hand with leaders from the legal sector, including human rights advocates, senior police officials, and Supreme Court judges. Workshops and site visits will introduce students to new trends in social justice and the role that expanding free trade has played in Latin America. Courses in international and comparative law, taught by U.S. law professors and leading Chilean scholars and practitioners, will provide frameworks for understanding the globalization of law and legal practice – in the laboratory that Santiago and its environs provide. Excellent ski resorts, thermal baths, wineries, coastal getaways, and top-end hiking are within a ninety-minute drive from Santiago.
Since 1997, California Western School of Law has been the U.S. site for Proyecto ACCESO, a leading rule of law skills training and public education program for Latin America (www.proyectoacceso.com). Proyecto ACCESO has trained thousands of legal professionals in over fifteen countries around the region, placed students in internships in private law firms, law enforcement agencies and public institutions throughout Latin America, and produced legal and public education programs for the Bolivian, Chilean, Costa Rican, German, Peruvian, Paraguayan, and U.S. governments, among others.
The Chile Summer Program is divided into two sessions. Session One features three courses that explore the challenges that come with globalization and Session Two is comprised of two short intensive courses and an option of a mini-internship – the Practical Component field placement. The faculty from the four members of the Consortium for Innovative Legal Education (www.cile.edu) are involved as instructors, supplemented by local law professors, international development experts, practicing lawyers and sitting judges who provide occasional lectures. There will also be several trips as well as extra-curricular activities that take advantage of Chile’s natural beauty and proximity to winter sport activities. Non-program, optional trips to countries in the region may also be organized.
Program Director: Professor James Cooper
 The Chile Summer Program is directed by Professor James Cooper, Assistant Dean for Mission Development and Director of International Legal Studies at California Western School of Law, where he teaches International Trade Law, Comparative Law and the Law of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Professor Cooper is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a Visiting Professor at UCSD’s Earl Warren College. A Barrister and Solicitor, Professor Cooper has worked at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, consulted for ministries of justice around Latin America, the United States, and German governments, and taught in law schools in Canada, Chile, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
His work has been commissioned by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the leading political foundations in Germany. He writes for newspapers in Bolivia, Chile, and the United States and has appeared on radio and television in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America.
Professor Cooper has produced and directed reality TV show pilots in Mexico and Chile featuring U.S. law students and public education campaigns for governments around Latin America. Professor Cooper has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, and The San Diego Daily Transcript and appears regularly on TV, radio and in print media about Latin America.
 Associate Dean and Professor Raj Bhala, University of Kansas Law School
Raj Bhala has lived and worked in nearly 50 countries. He holds a university chair, the Rice Distinguished Professorship, at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he serves as Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law.
He teaches courses in Islamic Law, International Trade Law, and Advanced International Trade Law. Professor Bhala is the author of 5 books and over 3 dozen articles in International Trade Law, plus 5 books and 15 articles in International Banking Law.
Roughly 100 law schools around the globe have used his textbook on International Trade Law, published by LexisNexis. The University of Kansas has granted him the Kemper Award for teaching excellence, and the Woodyard Award as International Educator of the Year. Professor Bhala was an Attorney on Wall Street with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. At the New York Fed, he twice won the President’s Award for Excellence for his work on wire transfers as a United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and on Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Professor Bhala is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, England’s Royal Society for Asian Affairs, American Law Institute, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He is a Foreign Legal Consultant to Heenan Blaikie, a pre-eminent Canadian law firm. He also consults with a number of international organizations, foreign governments, and multinational corporations.
He enjoys running, and has completed many marathons, including Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, Los Angeles, and Richmond.
 Professor Justin Brooks, California Western School of Law
Professor Justin Brooks is the Director of the California Innocence Project, the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy, and California Western's LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Specializing in Federal Criminal Law.
Prior to coming to California, Professor Brooks practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington D.C., Michigan, and Illinois. Over the course of his career he has served as counsel on several high profile criminal cases and has been successful in exonerating wrongfully convicted clients.
He has been recognized several times by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. In 2010, California Lawyer magazine awarded him the “Lawyer of the Year” award.
 Professor Kenneth Williams,
South Texas College of Law
Kenneth Williams is a professor at South Texas College of Law, where he teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, capital punishment, international human rights and international criminal law.
He has taught previously in summer abroad programs in Argentina and Vancouver, Canada. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor Williams is also a national expert on Capital Punishment. He is the author of a soon to be published book on the death penalty and the Supreme Court and has also authored numerous law review articles.
Professor Williams has represented eight death row inmates during their federal habeas corpus proceedings. Professor Williams has been successful before both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in obtaining relief for inmates who were sentenced to death in violation of their constitutional rights.
Courses
Session One starts on Sunday, May 20, 2012, with the last examination on Friday, June 15, 2012, and includes three lecture courses (a one-unit course and two two-unit courses).
There is a one-week break from Monday, June 18 to Friday, June 22, 2012 with weekends on either side providing 10 days free for travel.
Session Two starts on Monday June 25, 2012, with the last examination or internship day on July 20, 2012 and consists of two new courses or a Practicum Component field placement.
Students must enroll in all three courses in Session One (for a total of five credit units). In Session Two, students can enroll in up to two courses, with a possibility of earning a maximum of two credit units.
The Chile Summer Program will feature the following courses:
Introduction to Latin American Legal Culture (1 unit)
Professor James Cooper, California Western School of Law
Chile has long been the darling of modernization theorists and development economists who subscribe to the Washington Consensus – a blend of economic policies that favor free markets, privatized state services, and low tariff barriers. The Chileans are early adapters of many technologies and often integrate U.S. and European (namely British, French, German, and Spanish) influences, including legal culture. Santiago, Chile is truly a laboratory for many reforms – economic ones like privatization of pensions to legal ones like oral trials and a strongly independent judicial system. This course will examine how Chile has received legal transplants, adopted its own legal processes, and transformed itself into the stable, modern, and increasingly equitable state in a region of less successful neighbors.
The Chile Summer Program takes advantage of the longstanding relationships enjoyed by California Western School of Law for over a dozen years. As part of the Introduction to Chilean Legal Culture course, we will learn from U.S. Embassy personnel, members of the National Police, Attorney-General’s Office, Public Defenders’ Office, members of the judiciary, and the Ministry of Justice. Trips to a former human rights torture center, a justice center (at which new oral trials are taking place), a police academy, and other sites may also be part of the course.
I nternational Trade Law and Social Justice (2 units)
Associate Dean and Professor Raj Bhala, University of Kansas Law School
This course examines the intersections between International Trade Law and Social Justice Theory. The intersections occur in the context of many of the most controversial subjects in Trade Law.
Those subjects include agricultural subsidies, free trade agreements (FTAs), labor, environmental rights, human rights, and special and differential treatment. The term “Social Justice” sometimes is used imprecisely, without careful definition.
Accordingly, the course will review different major paradigms of “Social Justice.” Those paradigms include Utilitarian Theory, which underpins free trade arguments, Marxist-Leninist Theory, which critiques those arguments, and Catholic Christian Social Justice Theory, which draws on a long, deep tradition of faith and reason.
The course will examine the Trade Law subjects by applying these different Social Justice paradigms to them. In so doing, the course will cover the important technical and policy details of the Trade Law subjects. The course also will draw links between the (1) international trade law treatment of poor countries with sizeable Muslim communities, on the one hand, and (2) national security interests of all countries in reducing vulnerability among Muslim communities to extremist ideologies falsely promulgated in the name of “Islam.”
That is, the course will discuss the link from trade liberalization to poverty alleviation, and the follow-on link from poverty alleviation to counter-terrorism.
 International Human Rights and Latin America (2 units)
Professor Kenneth Williams, South Texas College of Law
This course will examine the development of human rights law from both a policy perspective and the possibilities it offers for application in domestic and international tribunals. Students should complete the course with an understanding of the international mechanisms available for the protection of human rights, the sources of international law which may be applied in U.S. and foreign courts, and the policy issues which affect the development of international human rights law. In addition, the human rights abuses of the Pinochet regime and Argentina’s “dirty war” will serve as cases studies, both for the human rights abuses which occurred and the attempts to rectify those abuses. Finally, the course will study in depth Mexico’s litigation against the United States, brought on behalf of its nationals who had been sentenced to death in violation of their rights.
For Session Two, you must choose a total of two credit units. That means you can enroll in: (a) the two intensive one-unit courses, (b) one of these courses and a Practicum Component field placement (internship) worth one unit; or (c) a two unit Practicum Component field placement (internship).
With Session One, you will have experienced a fun, educational but intense month with your classmates.
Then comes Sesson Two with the option of taking one or two one-unit courses and a one or two unit Practicum Component. Students in Session Two can only choose two credit units.
 Practical Training Experience: The Practicum Component of the Chile Summer Program (1 unit or 2 units)
Professor Justin Brooks, California Western School of Law
Free trade has not been a total success in Latin America. In fact, many of the prescriptions for economic development promoted by the United States, the World Trade Organization and regional trade blocs have not resulted in tangible results for the majority of Latin Americans.
This survey course introduces students to the major issues of free trade in the Americas – from human issues like social dumping to health and public safety concerns over cross border pharmaceutical sales.
We provide a detailed examination of border security, corporate practices and other governance issues. We examine competing jurisdictions, new forms of sovereignty, and the rise of the surveillance society.
We dissect the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act and explore the alternative regimes being offered by MERCOSUR, the Southern Cone Customs Union and the Venezuelan-led ALBA, the Bolivarian Accord for the People of Our America.
 Comparative Criminal Procedure (1 unit)
Professor Justin Brooks, California Western School of Law
This course gives an overview of criminal procedure topics associated with wrongful convictions around the world.
Students will learn about "innocence litigation" and the law associated with this litigation.
Topics including prosecutor misconduct, false identifications, the right to counsel, scientific evidence, and false confessions will be covered.
There will be a special focus on the Chilean judicial reforms and the causes of wrongful convictions in Latin America.
Spanish for Lawyers (1 unit)
Professor Yvette Lopez, California Western School of Law
Designed for students who anticipate working with Spanish-speaking clients in their legal careers, this course will provide students with the ability to interview and counsel Spanish-speaking clients; draft letters to Spanish-speaking clients; represent Spanish-speaking clients in court; identify essential legal terminology and acquire cultural competence and intra-cultural communications skills.
A basic speaking and reading knowledge of the Spanish language is required. Many reading materials will be in Spanish. As such, students should have a good command of the language.
Facilities
 ACCOMODATION
The Heidelberg Center for Latin America, headquartered in Santiago, Chile, will secure living arrangements for students.
There will be multi-bedroom flats – two and possibly three bedroom apartments – with kitchen, one or two bathrooms, living room, cable television, and Chilean high speed Internet access. Students can move into their accommodations on May 19, 2012.
Students in the Chile Summer Program Session One must leave their accommodations by June 16, 2012. Students in the Chile Summer Program Session Two must leave their accommodations by July 21, 2012.
The Accommodation Fee will be refundable up to thirty days prior to the start of the Chile Summer Program and will be nonrefundable thereafter. The $500 security deposit may be forfeited if the accommodations are not left in the same condition as received and if a student overuses the utilities (heat, water, electricity) beyond normal usage.
 Because a student will be sharing the accommodations with at least one other student, any damage or overuse of utilities will be allocated equally to each occupant.
HEIDELBERG CENTER FOR LATINAMERICA
The Heidelberg Center for Latin America is the University of Heidelberg’s Center of Excellence funded by the German Government. It is housed in a beautiful French-styled mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in Santiago.
Classes will meet Monday to Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily with a short break in between classes (during which you will be provided snacks and coffee), leaving the afternoons open for cultural events, sightseeing, reading, library visits, or research.
There may be classes scheduled on Saturdays or Sundays, depending on programmatic needs.
CHILE CLIMATE
The Chile Summer Program is held during the autumn season for South America.
 In May, the average high temperature is 64 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low temperature is 41 degrees Fahrenheit with an average precipitation of 2.3 inches.
In June, the average high temperature is 58 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low temperature is 38 degrees Fahrenheit with an average precipitation of 3.10 inches.
Bring a sweater and your snowboard.
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