After spending 13 years in Connecticut as a child, France-native Andréa Atlani had always dreamed of one day returning to the United States. After studying law for the past four years at the Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III in Lyon, France, her dream came true this summer when she arrived in Baton Rouge to earn her LLM at LSU Law as part of a new dual degree program.
“I am so grateful to be able to finish my second year of my Master’s here at the LSU Law Center thanks to this new partnership. It’s a wonderful opportunity,” Atlani said. “Furthermore, I am very thankful for the partial scholarship and for the additional Louis Curet Comparative Law Scholarship the LSU Law Center granted me. Without this generous funding, studying at LSU Law this school year would not have been possible.”
Launched this year, the new dual degree program with Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III enhances the existing relationship with the host campus of LSU Law’s long-standing summer program in France. Two students from the French university’s Master’s in Comparative Law program will be selected to study at LSU Law each academic year, providing them the opportunity to simultaneously complete their two-year master’s degree and the coursework required for the LSU Law LL.M. in Comparative Law.
Through her participation in the Trial Advocacy Program as a witness and a forthcoming Field Placement opportunity in the spring, Atlani is excited to become better familiar with the American legal and court systems. She’s hoping her year abroad and studies at LSU Law will help her gain some clarity on where she would like to launch her career after graduation next spring.
“My career aspirations are to work in a big Anglo-French or Anglo-Canadian law firm in the Anti-Trust field. I am deciding on the possibility of passing the New York Bar and becoming a lawyer,” she said. “I’m unsure whether I would like to practice in France or the United States. With everything that the LSU Law Center has to offer, I am trying to seize all the opportunities in order for me to answer these two crucial professional questions.”
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