International Law

The Law and Finance Institutional Partnership Program

Dr. David Linnan of the USC School of Law has been running the Law and Finance Institutional Partnership program since 2000. The LFIP is engaged in Southeast Asian countries, particularly in Indonesia, where over the past few years have been experiencing economic, legal, and financial reforms. Primarily an academic enterprise, the LFIP offers video-conference graduate economics and international law courses to students in Indonesia, at the University of Cologne in Germany, and at the University of South Carolina. In addition to its academic characteristics, the LFIP also works at a highly technical level with capital market regulators and self-regulatory organizations such as the Jakarta Stock Exchange. After September 11, the program also works as part of U.S. efforts to reach out into the Islamic world.

Dr. Linnan trained as a comparative lawyer at the University of Chicago and in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law for two years following graduation. He returned from Germany and practiced corporate law in Los Angeles and New York for five years before he joined USC in 1987. Since then he has been teaching international and business law in the Law School.