{"id":49,"date":"2016-09-09T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:27:48","slug":"canadian-native-pursues-dual-j-d-degree-at-detroit-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2016\/09\/09\/canadian-native-pursues-dual-j-d-degree-at-detroit-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian native pursues dual J.D. degree at Detroit Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sheila Pursglove &#8211; Detroit\u00a0Legal News, August 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_img-right alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/community.udmercy.edu\/image\/alumni-engagement\/alumni-highlights-or-stories\/Athena-Portokalidis.jpg?resize=150%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"joint law\" width=\"150\" height=\"189\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Athena Portokalidis enjoys studying the law from the perspectives of two differing legal traditions simultaneously in the Canadian &amp; American Dual J.D. Program at Detroit Mercy Law and the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel it gives me a unique approach to tackling legal issues as I\u2019ve learned to approach legal analysis from two different standpoints,\u201d she says. \u201cInternational law is becoming vastly important with ever-growing relations between Canada and the United States, which makes having training in both jurisdictions invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sheila Pursglove &#8211; Detroit\u00a0Legal News, August 30, 2016 Athena Portokalidis enjoys studying the law from the perspectives of two differing legal traditions simultaneously in the Canadian &amp; American Dual J.D. Program at Detroit Mercy Law and the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. \u201cI feel it gives me a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}