My home state compared to The Gambia, West Africa.
I leave for The Gambia for six weeks to work with the Legal Aid Clinic of the Faculty of Law, University of The Gambia (UTG). The clinic was just founded in 2012. The Gambia is also new. It gained its independence from Britain in 1965. It just had an election in December 2016, which finally resulted in a peaceful transfer of power in 2017.
This is an opportunity to help a relatively new program in a new institution (UTG was founded in 1999) establish reliable funding and institutionalize its practices to become an effective teaching tool that helps to provide access to justice for its citizens. I hope to work with school officials to help build the clinic’s capacity and the law school’s quality of education.
For more information on my Fulbright and that of my long time friend and colleague Joanne Katz’s Fulbright to Vietnam, go to
https://www.missouriwestern.edu/news/2017/04/19/two-legal-studies-professors-selected-for-fulbright-programs/
For more information on this map or to compare where you live with The Gambia or other countries go to Ifitweremyhome.com at