English Language Institute
2002Newsletter
From the director's desk . .
  ELI joins CHEP  
  Scholarships for Peace  
  Scholarship designated for Central American students  
  Conditional Admissions Program provides linguistic and legal bridge  
  Congratulations to CAP graduates  
  Federal grant partnership with U.S. and Ecuador law schools continues  
  ELI trains Ukrainian legal and business professionals  
  American Law and Legal Institute  
  Special programs  
  PreMBA program  
  New class: Broadway Musicals  
  Sewin' at Shoin  
  Corporate tutoring  
  Evening program steams ahead  
  Profiles  
  Classroom notes  
  A typical day in the tutoring center  
  ELI founder to retire  
  Professional activities  
  Graduation 2002: as good as it gets  
  Two countries, maybe more, under one roof  
  New faces in the Christina School District ESL program  
  Evaluation of the Christina School District bilingual program  
  Personnel notes  
  In memoriam  
  Greetings to our alumni  
  Alumni news  

American Law and Legal English Institute

The American Law and Legal English Institute (ALLEI) was offered twice in 2002, in January and July. Lawyers, judges and law students from several countries took classes in topics such as American court structure and procedure, contract and commercial law, constitutional law, corporate law, products liability and international law. Attorney Christopher Wolfe, ELI's legal studies coordinator, taught the classes. Additional seminars and professional visits were facilitated by several other attorneys and judges in Delaware. While studying here, the scholars visited state and federal courts, law firms and government agencies in Delaware, Washington, D.C. and New York City. In Washington, the groups took VIP tours of the U.S. Supreme Court and visited the U.S. Capitol and Senate chambers.

ALLEI Summer ALLEI participants pose next to the statue of John Marshall, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, during a visit to Washington, D.C.

The ALLEI program also included intensive training in trial advocacy, in which participants learned and practiced the American trial techniques of questioning witnesses, handling physical evidence and making legal arguments in a mock trial setting.

After completing their studies at ELI, several of the scholars went on to continue their legal studies at American law schools, while the others returned home to their law practices. As one of this year's participants, Flavia Lima, wrote from Duke University Law School, "I would like to thank you once more for the wonderful ALLEI course. It has been very helpful to me in my L.L.M. studies here at Duke."

The ELI's law program will be offered again in January and July of 2003.