In the upcoming spring semester, six University of Georgia School of Law students will gain international hands-on learning experience through the Global Externships Overseas (GEO) initiative, administered by the Dean Rusk International Law Center in partnership with the DC Semester in Practice: Micah Booker (J.D. ’27), Aaron Dasher (J.D. ’26), Avery Herman (J.D. ’27), Edmund Kim (J.D. ’27), Sarah Najjar (J.D. ’27), and William Stowers (J.D. ’27). Through their GEOs, students will work abroad in practice areas including international arbitration, M&A, energy and infrastructure, international trade, and cultural heritage law.

Five students will work in private law settings: Booker with extern with LNT & Partners in Hanoi, Vietnam; Herman will extern with Araoz y Rueda in Madrid, Spain, under the supervision of Ainhoa Veiga (LL.M. ’97); Kim and Najjar will extern with KPMG Legal in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, under the supervision of Binh Tran (J.D. ’11); and Stowers will extern with Bodenheimer in Berlin, Germany, under the supervision of Dr. Christof Siefarth (LL.M. ’86).

Dasher has a public interest placement and will extern remotely with the Antiquities Coalition under the supervision of Tess Davis (J.D. ’09).

Stowers has been selected as the recipient of a grant from the Halle Foundation to support his externship in Germany. Based in Atlanta, The Halle Foundation seeks to promote understanding, knowledge and friendship between the people of Germany and the United States. Stowers is the fourth Georgia Law student to receive this grant to support a semester-long GEO in Germany, following Jack Buckelew (J.D. ’25), Pace Cassell (J.D. ’26), and Eleanor Cox (J.D. ’26).

Najjar has been selected as a recipient of the Office of Global Engagement Asia-Georgia Internship Connection Scholarship. This 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 and here.

Since spring 2021, fourteen Georgia Law students have participated in semester-long GEOs, an extension of the Center’s existing GEO initiative that is offered jointly between the Center and the law school’s Clinical and Experiential Program. Professor Jessica L. Heywood, Clinical Associate Professor and Washington, D.C., Semester in Practice Director, teaches and directs students externing abroad in partnership with Taher Benany, Associate Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, who oversees the GEO initiative. Like Georgia Law’s summer GEOs, semester-long GEOs are legal placements around the world that offer all law students the opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience in an international setting. They are typically supervised in their work by Georgia Law alumni. Students return to Athens with new colleagues and mentors, legal practice skills that set them apart from their peers, and a deeper appreciation of the global legal profession.

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The Center is currently accepting applications for fall 2026 semester-long GEOs; all 1L and 2L students are eligible to apply. Applications are due February 15. For more information and to access the application, please email Taher Benany: taher.benany@uga.edu