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A Law Student's Educational Sojourn in Africa

A Law Student's Educational Sojourn in Africa

2001 LEAT Volunteer Peter Kim; Chris Wold, Clinical Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School; Vincent Shauri, LEAT

In the spring of 2001 Peter Kim, a thrid-year law student at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA, spent a five month externship with LEAT in Dar es Salaam. Upon returning to the U.S. Peter wrote fondly about his Tanzanian experience and his high regard for the public interest advocates he worked with.

"Disembarking from the air-conditioned plane, I stepped into the outdoor sauna of Tanzania, immediately drenched in my own sweat. In contrast to the Portland environment I just left, I found myself slightly overdressed for my new equatorial climate. I quickly learned, however, that my externship with the Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT) would be a study in cultural and legal contrasts - my unforgettable learning, working and living experience had just begun." -- Peter Kim

Read Peter's entire essay on the Lewis & Clark web site .