The health, safety, and welfare of our students is our number one priority. Due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19, aka the novel coronavirus, the LSU Law in Lyon Study Abroad Program has been cancelled for the 2020 Summer. While we know many of you are disappointed by this cancellation, unfortunately this outbreak is an extraordinary circumstance beyond our control.
For those students who had completed registration prior to the cancellation, you will soon receive direct communications from the Program Directors and Administration discussing with you in greater detail issues the complications that this global health issue causes, and what cancellation of the program might pose to you (e.g., unrecoverable expenses, the need to schedule courses here at home to replace those you had planned to take in Lyon).
From the Broadcast Announcement sent on behalf of Interim Dean Lockridge, sent March 6, 2020:
Dear Law Center Community:
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The Law Center—along with the rest of the University—is monitoring the news on the virus outbreak, and we at the Law Center are engaged in planning processes for how to keep our educational program on track and still in compliance with our accreditation standards, as best we can, regardless of interruptions that may or may not come our way. I want you to know we take the health and safety of our students, staff, and faculty very seriously; that will continue to be of paramount importance as we move forward.
Unfortunately, our Lyon program is part of the study-abroad cancellation that was just announced by LSU. We will be unable to offer that program this year—it will be the first time in over 30 years that we will not have a summer program in France.
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