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Law Students Thai One On

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Some law students barely leave the library, let alone the country. But a group of students at the University of Buffalo Law School left that frigid city yesterday for the steamier climes of Thailand, where they will study the Southeast Asian nation's unique legal culture. Twelve students are traveling with professor David M. Engel and his wife, Jaruwan Engel, according to UB Reporter, a publication for the university's faculty and staff. Early in his career, Engel was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and he has since become an expert on its legal culture. His wife is a professional translator and author. The two recently co-authored a book about Thai legal culture, Tort, Custom, and Karma, due out next month from Stanford University Press. The trip takes the students to Chiang Mai, a region in the foothills of the Himalayas some 400 miles north of Bangkok. There, they will engage in structured conversations with village chiefs, Buddhist monks, Thai law professors, students, attorneys and representatives of non-governmental organizations. The trip is arranged in cooperation with Chiang Mai University Law School. After the same trip in 2008 (pictured), two of the students wrote about their meeting with the abbot of a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).