Dean of Law, George Washington University Visited AMU

You will be pleased to read the feed back from Fred Lawrence, Dean
of Law School at GWU, on his trip to Aligarh.

This trip of Dean Lawrence is result of the AAA Washington efforts,
mainly thru the connections of Frank Islam. The effort was initiated
when VC AMU visited Washington. He met members of AAA Washington at
a grand reception arranged by the association in his honor and next
day he visited two universities, John Hopkins and George Washington.
The meetings were arranged by Frank Islam. The President AAA
Washington Dr. Fazal Khan and I joined Frank Islam and Prof P.K.
Abdul Azis to these meetings. Frank has been following very closely
the progress and has acted as intermediately to make it happen.
Hopefully it will bring some good results. I think this news is
worth wide circulation. It shows that each individual organization
can contribute towards the betterment of AMU.

A. Abdullah
Washington DC

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Dear Frank

This has been a remarkable trip to India for me, even by my high
standards. Let me just describe one 24-hour period to give you the
trip in microcosm. It was the day of my visit to Aligarh Muslim
University .

We were picked up at our hotel in Delhi Monday afternoon at 3.00 by
a driver sent by the University. We were accompanied by both the Dean
of the Law School and a graduating senior from the Law School who is
clearly one of their stars and who, I am very pleased to say, has
applied to GW for a Master of Laws degree next year. For the student,
it was a chance for an interview, as it were, with the Dean and
Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law and he used it
well; very impressive.

Dinner Monday night, as you know, was at the home of the Vice
Chancellor. He is a very impressive man as you well know, and he is
going to take AMU in major new directions. He had invited the faculty
of the Law School (27 professors) along with other senior members of
the administration and faculty of the University. Tuesday, we had
meetings with the Dean and his faculty to discuss
the nature of future collaborations, which was very productive. It
turns out that we are the first American law school to make it to
Aligarh. I was then given the opportunity to address and then interact
with an auditorium of roughly 100 students. I may well have been the
first American many (all?) of them had met in person. They were
wonderful – bright, interested, optimistic, focused, and polite to a
degree unimaginable for most American students. Whereas the faculty of
the law school is 100% male, the student body was around 1/3 women and
judging from the clothing, they covered the spectrum – some with heads
covered and some with western dress, and everything in between. I
believe that we now have a new and important source of Master of Laws
students, some of whom will be able to pay our tuition and some of
whom will require scholarships in order to do so. This will require
attention on our part.

Frank thank you so much for making this connection. There is great
deal that GW Law and AMU can accomplish together. I look forward to
getting together when I am back in DC to discuss all of this at much
greater depth. This is a very exciting opportunity.

Warm regards,

Fred

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Frederick M. Lawrence
Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW
Suite E-200
Washington , DC 20052

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Posted by

Shaheer Khan

M.Sc.'81
Foster City, CA

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