In my stints as an intern, I generally keep blogs. The following are essays, questions, musings and tales; an attempt to digest the institutions’ intellectual climate and challenge my own understanding. They vary from research intensive to perhaps-too-whimsical opinions. Food for thought.
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Like a Monk Holding an Umbrella (Beijing, China | 2013)
Explorations of a Canadian law student in Chinese law. Law student at RenMin University. Legal intern at Norton Rose Fulbright.
KEYWORDS: Chinese Legal Culture and History; Development of Chinese Law; Fapios and Taxes; FDI and BITS; Anti-Bribery, Anti-Corruption and Guanxi; Supreme People’s Court and Precedent.
In Brugge (Bruges, Belgium | 2012)
Studies of a freshly minted McGill graduate to the peel of bells. Research intern at the United Nations University for Comparative Regional Integration Studies.
KEYWORDS: ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations); Water Security Regimes; Trade Dynamics in South Asia; Sustainable Transportation; Mekong River Basin Integration.
Un Café, S’Il Vous Plaît (Bruxelles, Belgium | 2010)
Dispatches of an EU stagiaire with a preference for tea. Intern at the Sustainable Development Observatory at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), right across from the European Parliament.
KEYWORDS: Sustainable Development; European Integration; Europe 2020 Plan; Climate Security; Biodiversity Beyond 2010; Green Chemistry Initiatives; EU- Asian Relations.