University of Georgia School of Law students Caroline Schrum (J.D. ’28) and Tori Weatherley (J.D. ’28) were selected to receive funding for legal externships in Japan this summer through the university’s Office of Global Engagement’s Asia-Georgia Internship Connection Scholarship.

Both students’ scholarships will support their Global Externship Overseas (GEO), administered by Georgia Law’s Dean Rusk International Law Center. Schrum and Weatherly will both participate in GEOs in Tokyo, Japan, where they will extern with Kuribayashi Sogo Law Office under the guidance of Georgia Law alumnus Tsutomu Kuribayashi (LL.M. ’97), Managing Director.

In addition to their externships, both students will engage in supervised research projects. Both Schrum and Weatherley will work with Christopher M. Bruner, Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. Schrum will examine the semiconductor trade relationship between the United States and Japan, specifically focusing on anti-dumping measures, trade controls, WTO compliance, and the role of the national security exception in international trade law. Weatherley’s project will examine how the decline of lifetime employment and seniority-based pay in Japan is reshaping relationships between employers, employees, and enterprise unions, and whether these changes are shifting Japanese labor law toward a more individualized and management-oriented system similar to that of the United States. 

The Asia-Georgia Internship Connection Scholarship funds student pursuing credit-bearing internships in southeast Asia for a duration of at least four weeks. Preference is given to students traveling to Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Posts about past recipients of this scholarship at Georgia Law can be found here.