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Rine also found his Cambodian experience personally gratifying. Pictured above: Rine participates in an engagement ceremony.
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Nicholas Rine, professor in the University of Michigan Law School's
clinical law program, spent a busy three months in Cambodia helping
to develop law curriculum.
He worked with a Cambodian colleague, Ly U Meng, who had been
at Michigan the prior year, to teach a new legal ethics course
to 200 fourth-year law students at the Faculty of Law (the Cambodian
government-sponsored college that grants law degrees). Both were
pleased that their new course was added permanently to the curriculum.
He also taught classes in democracy, alternative dispute resolution
and mediation for the Community Legal Education Center in Phnom
Penh, and offered intensive training in mediation for a non-governmental
organization (NGO) called Cambodia Women's Crisis Center.
In addition, Rine consulted with the Cambodian Bar Association
to help develop a teaching and testing program to enable licensing
of law graduates.
In his "spare time," he says, he acted as a supervisor/mentor
for about a dozen U.S. law students, including some from U-M,
who were working for non-governmental organizations (NGO) over
the summer.
His most interesting activity, though, he notes, was "acting
as an informal adviser for several human rights-oriented NGOs,
mainly around some judicial reform activities. I found that especially
gratifying."
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