Does anyone have any recommendations on which US legal sytem intro courses are the best? I come from a civil law country so I think I should take one, but I'm unsure of which...

I am confused - isn't there only the one offered by your LLM school? I didn't realize there was a choice.

There seems to be an Summer English course at Harvard, but no summer US law intro course... I'm not sure the week at orientation's intro will be enough for me. I know other past Harvard LLMs have done summer intros at Georgetown and other places...

My understanding is that the people who do them at Georgetown are Fulbright Scholars who get the course as part of their scholarship. I could be wrong though. My impression was that it was just a big party and time for people to get to know each rather than being any real academic endeavour. It is one month long.

I should say that at Columbia at least the course is three weeks long and is included as part of the LLM (i.e. it is not a summer course).

Hi - I am going to do the course at Leiden/Columbia
We had a useful discussion about summer school here
http://www.llm-guide.com/board/25476 - one of the guys also included a link to articles that discussed the many schools that provided such courses. Good luck!

Hi,
there is a 6-week American English for students of law course at Yale.
It's very interesting and according to a person who did both better than the Columbia program
i will send you a facebook message with more details.
but here is the website: http://www.yale.edu/eli/summer/law.html

Thanks Sting! I had not heard of this program!

thanks!

Heh, and then you get to put Yale on your CV, right? I might even take it and I am from a common law country and already have my LLM (joke).

You guys have too much time or what? :p

I have only 6 weeks of vacation, spending 4 of it to improve my English language skills and visiting some court buildings...I think I'm not gonna do it.

Has anyone taken the US Orientation course offered at ILO? Their housing options seem a bit over the top... I know I'd want to take legal english and the orientation, but don't know how useful the writing workshop is...