The Center offers travel grants for current J.D. students at the Law School who wish to do field research in East Asia or Southeast Asia as part of a larger research project leading to writing a scholarly paper. Through the Center's travel grants, students have done work in the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, Japan, Malaysia, and Micronesia, researching a wide variety of topics including environmental law, securities regulation, human rights, international trade, business law, and intellectual property. The Law School has made a thorough commitment to clinical experience as a part of legal education. Clinical placements are not required for students who prefer more traditional methods of instruction, but such placements are generally available to most upper-class students who want them. Clinical programs are growing and changing.
All clinical programs involve continuous and substantial direct law school supervision.
The purpose of all placements is to provide a method of instruction in the realities of law, not to benefit employing agencies. Thus, each student receives individual supervision and review by clinical staff, and the several programs are augmented by seminars and classroom discussion of the experience collectively being gained in the field. In this way the Law School is achieving integration of all clinical programs into the regular curriculum. Law students working with an attorney-supervisor appear at hearings, draft documents, and organize coalitions. The clinic provides a unique educational opportunity to practice health law, poverty law, and telecommunications law while assisting client groups.