Every year, Fulbright Belgium welcomes US LL.M programs to Belgium and connects them with aspiring applicants. On Friday, October 4, Georgetown and Vanderbilt Law Schools went to the University of Antwerp to speak on this topic with Fulbright and 40 students from ELSA Antwerp.
Dory Mayer from Georgetown Law has been recruiting in Belgium for over 25 years; at this session she emphasized to students the importance of being bi-cultural, bi-lingual, and bi-legal, the latter meaning to have a familiarity with
common and civil law traditions. Cynthia Coleman from Vanderbilt Law School, who has been recruiting in Belgium for 3 years since Vanderbilt’s LLM program began in 2006 – elaborated more on the factors to consider when applying to LLM programs, including:
- Location
- Academic specialties
- Opportunities to integrate with JD students and prepare for the New York and California bar exams

- Tuesday, October 22 at 5:30 PM – Saint Louis University Law at Universiteit Gent
- Tuesday, November 12 from 1:00 PM-3:45 PM at Université Catholique de Louvain and from 6:00 PM-9:00 PM at Liedekerke Law Firm with American University, Boston University, Duquesne University, Emory University, Hofstra University, Northwestern University, Tulane University, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, University of Oklahoma, University of Pennsylvania, University of California – Berkeley, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of San Diego, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University law schools