Law Schools Retool LL.M. Programs for the Pandemic World

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Professor Clare Huntington was quoted in LLM Guide and explained how the pandemic has shifted how LL.M. programs are and will be offered and the curriculum.

The pandemic is changing the legal profession quickly, forcing law schools to adapt the content of their LL.M. courses.

One area of change has been travel, with new migration restrictions around the world. And amid a crackdown on immigration in the US, Georgetown Law’s Madhavi Sunder, associate dean for international and graduate programs, highlights the anxiety that overseas students face amid the uncertainties of the pandemic.

At Fordham Law School in New York, professors are bringing Covid-related questions into the classroom, from the data privacy concerns raised by contract tracing, to the visitation challenges for parents whose children are in foster care.

But Clare Huntington, a professor of law, says it remains to be seen just how much coronavirus will change the legal profession. “Most legal practices and courts are operating remotely, but it is too soon to tell how the practice of law may or may not change in the long-term.”

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