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Center of American Law in Ukraine together with
Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
present School of American Law in Ukraine (SAL Ukraine)

80% waiver in tuition fee for
LL.M. at Chicago-Kent College of Law
granted for SAL Ukraine graduates

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*In response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine and the resulting significant financial distress faced by Ukrainian legal professionals seeking to further their legal education, Chicago-Kent College of Law, together with the Center of American Law in Ukraine, is offering a special and substantial (80%) reduction to tuition for Chicago-Kent's LL.M. program for students who successfully complete the SAL Ukraine program. This special offer applies to any Ukrainian legal professionals who are qualified to take part in and who successfully complete the SAL program during the upcoming 2022-2023 year, and also to those SAL Ukraine program graduates who successfully completed the SAL program within the previous three years.

  • School of American Law (SAL Program) is an overseas program of Chicago-Kent College of Law. SAL exists in different European and Asian countries. Professors of Chicago-Kent College of Law were initiators of establishing such overseas programs for emerging markets. School of American Law Program is a wholly-owned Chicago-Kent College of Law subsidiary. The program is based on Chicago-Kent's experience offering American Law studies in Europe since 1998. The School of American Law is the first and only program of its kind in Eastern Europe to provide an LL.M. in just 5 or 9 months.
  • Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology law school, is the second oldest and one of the most prestigious law schools in Illinois. It is ranked among the Top 100 Best Law Schools in the U.S. in 2022 by U.S. News & World Report. Its intellectual property law program is ranked as the best (#1) program in the U.S., and its trial advocacy program is ranked as the fourth-best program in the U.S.

Benefits:

  • Flexibility in the choice of courses
  • 100% guarantee of admission to Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, USA for 3 years after successful completion of Pre-LL.M
  • No need to pass the admission campaign at the Chicago-Kent College of Law in the USA;
  • No need to take the TOEFL
  • Pre-LL.M graduates have significant benefits and discounts if they choose to continue their studies at LL.M. programs at the Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, USA
  • We help with obtaining an American student visa

Opportunities after receiving an LL.M in the USA:

  • work in international companies that require quality international legal education
  • obtain the right to take the bar exam in the USA
  • start legal practice in the USA
BECOME A STUDENT

Chicago-Kent By the Numbers

Chicago-Kent's faculty is ranked

#3

in Chicago and #40 in the U.S.

– Sisk et al., Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third (2021)

#1

program in the U.S. for Intellectual Property Law

– Law Street Media (June 2017)

#4

program in the U.S. for TRIAL ADVOCACY

LEGAL WRITING

– U.S. News & World Report (2022 rankings)

AMONG THE

TOP 20

"law schools with innovative curricula, programs and approaches to PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE."

– "Most Innovative Law Schools," National Jurist (Fall 2017)

8

The number of Chicago-Kent alumni named among the

"40 Under Forty" most talented young attorneys

practicing in Illinois in 2021.

FUTURE-FOCUSED

TOP 2

in Legal Services Innovation and Technology

(Law School Innovation Index, MSU Center for Legal Services Innovation (2017)

LECTURERS AND COURSES

OUR EXPERIENCE

210

graduates

 70+

students enrolled in the USA
95%

enrollment in the LL.M.

 60+

graduates are practicing lawyers in the U.S.
24

years of successful work in Eastern Europe

 60+

students passed the bar exam
0

refusals to obtain a student visa

 0

cases of violation of US immigration law

OUR EXPERIENCE

210

graduates

70+

students enrolled in the USA

95%

enrollment in the LL.M.

60+

graduates are practicing lawyers in the U.S.

24

years of successful work in Eastern Europe

60+

students passed the bar exam

0

refusals to obtain a student visa

0

cases of violation of US immigration law

Our Partner Programs In Europe

  • Poland
  • Lithuania
  • Latvia
  • Belarus
  • Ukraine
  • Georgia
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Greece
  • Turkey
  • Estonia
  • Slovakia
  • Czech Republic
  • Bulgaria
  • Romania

DETAILS:

  • Studying takes place on Saturday and Sunday (once or twice a month and lasts 4-8 hours a day, depending on the course)
  • All courses will be taught by practicing lawyers and professors at Chicago-Kent College of Law online or in one of the Eastern European countries
  • Two or three weeks before the lectures, all students will receive course materials from the lecturers (excerpts from books, articles, court decisions, problem plots, etc.), which they have to process before each of the courses
  • All courses are about the American legal system and international business law
  • Lectures are held in the American style (Socratic method) with the active involvement of students
  • After classes, students receive assignments they must complete within 2-3 weeks and send them to the professor for review
Details of 2022-2023 academic year

WHO CAN APPLY?

  • law students (3rd or 4th year of study), bachelors and masters of law, practicing lawyers regardless of age
  • with knowledge of English at the Intermediate level and above

DURATION:

  • Pre-LL.M. online or in one of the countries of Eastern Europe - 10 weekends (1 or 2 times a month) from September to May 2022 - 2023
  • LL.M in Chicago, USA - 6 months or 1 year

OUR STUDENTS

Tuition Fee

  • Pre-LL.M. – $3 000
  • LL.M у Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago, USA) - $5000 (5 month program) or $8625 (9 month program) for SAL Ukraine graduates.

*Pre-LL.M tuition fees can be divided into two parts.

** The total cost of study at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago, USA) is $43 860, but for SAL Ukraine (Pre-LL.M) graduates - the tuition fee is five times lower - $8625.
The decision of Chicago-Kent College of Law about tuition fees for SAL Ukraine graduates: https://bit.ly/3Nq5vns

Admission Process

All candidates must submit:
  • CV (in English)
  • Cover Letter (one page)
  • Copy of passport or ID
  • A copy of the diploma or an excerpt from the university

Documents should be sent in PDF format (copies of passport and diploma may also be sent in JPEG) to sal.in.ukraine@gmail.com

Admission to the program is decided by the Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology. All candidates will receive a decision on enrollment within two weeks from the date of documents submission.

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ABOUT US

The Center of American Law in Ukraine is a non-governmental organization whose main goal is to encourage Ukrainian legal practitioners to meet the challenges of effective professional integration into the globalized legal marketplace and provide them with educational opportunities. Since 2011 the Center of American Law in Ukraine has been the official partner and representative of Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, USA) in Ukraine. Together with Chicago-Kent College of Law, The Center of American Law in Ukraine creates opportunities for legal professionals to obtain an LL.M degree in the United States of America.

One of the main projects of the Center for American Law in Ukraine is the School of American Law (SAL Ukraine). From 2011 to 2021, more than 210 students graduated from SAL in Ukraine. About 80 enrolled in the LL.M program at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (IIT). Among the graduates are founders, partners, senior lawyers from the TOP-50 law firms in Ukraine, heads of legal departments of international companies, and judges who work in law and international consulting firms, as well as in the public sector in the United States, Europe, and Ukraine.

TEAM

Taras Polianskyi

Director
of the Center of American Law in Ukraine

tpolians@kentlaw.iit.edu
+1 (224) 431 5937
+380960175933
(Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram)

Marta Datsyuk

Head of Communications
of the Center of American Law in Ukraine

+38 063 679 85 42

Richard Warner

Worldwide Director of the School of American Law (SAL)
Faculty Director of Chicago-Kent's Center for Law and Computers

rwarner@kentlaw.iit.edu
+1 (312) 906-5340

Charter of the Center of American Law

OUR CONTACTS

sal.in.ukraine@gmail.com +380961260058