SLS’s Rwanda Legal Development Project Students Meet With Key Officials in Rwandan Government
In December 2014, members of SLS’s Rwanda Legal Development Project
During its trip, RLDP developed a new institutional relationship with the Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry (MINICOM). RLDP and MINICOM discussed challenges MINICOM encounters while modernizing laws and harmonizing them with Rwanda’s obligations as a member of the East African Community. In response to these challenges, MINICOM co-designed projects with RLDP members John Daley ’16, Nari Ely ’16, Ted Karch ’16, Kimberly Larkin ’16, and Laura Vittet-Adamson, who are now conducting primary and comparative research on Rwanda’s industrial and internal trade laws and competition regulations. They will submit their findings this spring.
Finally, RLDP members met with various legal professionals interested in collaborating with RLDP through research and clerkships. This summer, Artemis Seaford ’17 and Matt Gasperetti ’17 will clerk for Hon. Chief Justice Rugege of the Rwandan Supreme Court in Kigali. Bill Koch ’17 will clerk for Hon. Justice Ugirashebuja at the East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania. RLDP will continue to support policy research partnerships between SLS students and these and other stakeholders in coming years.