Schmid returns to UNAM with 3L

Steve Schmidt
Steve Schmidt

Professor Steve Schmidt has returned to Mexico City to teach “Teaching Oral Trial Skills to Others” at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The three day "working seminar" is designed for UNAM professors who will teach trial advocacy at UNAM and other Mexican law schools. Schmidt is joined by Professor Peter Hoffman from the Elon University School of Law and Kristina Korobov from the Marion County Prosecutor's Office in Indianapolis, IN. Samuel Padilla, a Nebraska Law 3L, is also participating, giving a class on the oral advocacy system practiced in the U.S. The other faculty for the course consists of the Mexican professors who have received training at the Nebraska Law - Gerardo Molina Hierro, Patricia Ortega Cubas, Javier Gamboa Herrera, Moises Cruz Gayosso, Oscar Arriola Islas, Alberto Lopez Flores and Gonzalo Alanis Figueroa. This training program is a result of the UNL-UNAM Rule of Law partnership designed to assist Mexico as they adjust their criminal justice system from a mixed inquisitorial system to an oral adversarial system.