Welcome!

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all returning and incoming students to another exciting year at the Charlotte School of Law. I, Mason John, have been appointed the President of the International Law Society and I am very excited about this opportunity. Periodically throughout the year, I will be updating this blog about the goings on of our society. I hope that my visions of grandeur will be enthusiastically accepted and enthusiastically improved upon. I see my role as a facilitator for all things International Law to find their way into our purview and experience as American law students. So as the year progresses please inform yourself as to the many opportunities that ILS will be promoting and sponsoring. Furthermore, feel free to leave comments with ideas for improvement and potential opportunities or ideas you may have for the society.

Now that we have covered the administrative issues of this blog, I want to express to you how great an opportunity we have before us. As the future lawyers of America, the opportunity to make a difference in the world will one day present itself. However, my question is: why do we need to wait until “one day?” My belief is that right now, we as law students can create a legacy of students who believe in something grand, and go out and accomplish it. Considering the youth of our law school, we are in a very unique position. We are working with a blank canvas and it is up to us to paint a master-piece. I have no doubt that we will accomplish just that.

Winston Churchill once said, " All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." While these words may seem simple and common for most of us, they are very complex for a great portion of the world. For many of us, these words are easily taken for granted. For others across our globe, they are as hard to grasp as the wind. While there are many great lessons that can be found in this quote, I took away that most great things are "simple." A great concert does not need to be an elaborate stage production with pyrotechnics to be a great concert. Sometimes the soul calls for the simple, the unique, the beautiful. And this is precisely where I want our society to begin. We can accomplish great things by doing the basics great. So, I say all of this to primarily to say that we MUST dream big, but let us not forget that to reach these goals we MUST conquer the small stuff first.

So, I ask that you ponder how this quote can apply to our society and I hope that you will bring your ideas and enthusiasm for International law with you to our first meeting of the year in the third floor student lounge on Tuesday, September 1st at 12noon-1. Can't wait to see you all then.

Sincerely,

Mason