Newton, MA--Students from BC Law's London Program gathered at the University of London's Postgraduate Law Centre last week to attend a lecture delivered by BC Law Professor Kent Greenfield. The lecture on corporate law, entitled "The Company Board as Regulatory Body," was delivered to a packed house, according to this year's Director of the London Program, Professor Judy McMorrow.

"Our 10 London Program participants joined the filled room to hear Kent's excellent lecture," McMorrow said. "Kent's talk was a natural continuation of the theme developed at last fall's Filling Power Vacuums conference at Boston College."

BC Law's London Program will celebrate its 25th anniversay next year. A pioneer in international experiential learning, the Program is given each Spring Semester at King's College London. The on-site director teaches a course and a seminar, while the Advanced European Law and King's College courses are taught by members of the King's College Law School faculty.

The Program has two major components, one classroom based, and the other experiential. The classroom component consists of four courses. The centerpiece of the London Program is its internship component. This represents an effort to replicate, in a foreign setting, some of the features of the law school's highly successful Semester in Practice program. Students in London have worked with a number of non-profit human rights and environmental organizations, including, Interights, Liberty, Justice, Article 19 as well the Financial Services Authority, and several major London law firms.

The London Program seeks to supplement the educational process at Boston College Law School by exposing students firsthand to a different legal culture. The Program is designed to provide students with a critical insight into comparative legal institutions, and prepare them for international law practice, with special emphasis on international regulatory process, whether in environmental or securities regulation, human rights law, antitrust, intellectual property or other arenas.