Law Students from South America Visit for Linkage Program

The academic program of the visiting students — three from Argentina, three from Brazil, and four from Chile — consisted of personal research, observing classes, and meeting individually and as a group with Yale faculty and student leaders. Additionally, Carlos Rosenkrantz ’87 LLM, ’89 JSD, of Argentina’s Supreme Court came to New Haven to pay a personal visit to Professor Fiss and spent an hour discussing his vision of the judge’s role in turbulent times with the students.

The group also experienced student life at Yale, attending a wide assortment of cultural and sport events, from the Yale Philharmonia to a performance at the University Theatre, women’s and men’s basketball and hockey matches, and the Leitner Family Observatory. In addition to most of Yale’s libraries, the Art Gallery, Center for British Art, and Peabody Museum, they toured Branford College and compared the offerings at several dining halls (ultimately deciding to end the program with dinner together at the same college where they had their first meal all together, in Grace Hopper). 

Their experience was made even richer by living with the law students who will visit their countries during Yale’s summer recess. The hosts benefited from the sunshine, energy, guarana, and hierba maté our guests brought from the southern hemisphere. 

The Owen Fiss Latin American Linkage Program is an informal law student exchange between Yale Law School and seven leading law schools in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Each January, law students from our partner schools come to spend three weeks at Yale Law School. During summer recess, groups of Yale law students spend three weeks in Argentina, Brazil, or Chile, where they are hosted by the students who came to Yale in January.