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Posted by Bohdan A. Oryshkevich on June 27, 2004 at 21:00:37:
In Reply to: Re: Schools funding for LLM posted by Serhiy on June 26, 2004 at 20:10:12:
All worthwhile programs are competitive and hard to get into. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
For a student from Ukraine paying $36,000 for a year’s tuition oneself at an American law school is likely to be out of the ballpark. That does not include living or travel expenses. Nor does it include application expenses and testing expenses. Ukrainians generally are not eligible for loans from western banks.
Kyiv law firms are peppered with Ukrainians who have won the Muskie Fellowship to leading American law schools including Yale. It is true that not every Muskie Fellow goes to Yale but other leading American law schools participate in the Muskie Fellowship. Those include Columbia and other leading schools. If the student is not happy with the law school selected for him/her, he/she does not need to accept the admission and scholarship.
Returning to Ukraine to practice international or even local law is hardly a death sentence. A person who wants to emigrate can find out other means and can pay his/her own way. Students in the West who borrow money spend years paying back such loans. That amounts to an insidious servitude.
The Muskie Fellowship nurtures a network of alumni in the home country. Mikhel Shaakashvili, the President of Georgia, is a Muskie alumnus. That speaks for itself.
Bohdan Oryshkevich
info@ukrainianscholarships.org
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