{"id":45012,"date":"2019-09-17T21:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=45012"},"modified":"2019-09-17T21:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T01:47:23","slug":"life-after-jet-podcast-interview-with-stephen-horowitz-director-of-legal-english-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/17\/life-after-jet-podcast-interview-with-stephen-horowitz-director-of-legal-english-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Life After JET: Podcast interview with Stephen Horowitz, Director of Legal English Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*******<\/p>\n<p>*******<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevenwaseda\/\">Steven Horowitz<\/a> (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94)<\/strong> is the founder of JETwit, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetaausa.com\/\">JETAA USA Board of Advisors<\/a>, and Director of Legal English Programs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohns.edu\/law\/llm-admissions\">St. John&#8217;s University School of Law<\/a> in Queens, NYC, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.babbel.com\/en\/magazine\/the-languages-of-queens-diversity-capital-of-the-world\/\">the most ethnically diverse urban place on the planet<\/a>.&#8221; He also writes for the <a href=\"https:\/\/stjohnslegalenglish.com\/\">St. John&#8217;s Legal English Blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was recently interviewed for a podcast episode by <a href=\"https:\/\/studylegalenglish.com\/team\/louise-kulbicki\/\"><strong>Louise Kulbicki<\/strong><\/a>, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/studylegalenglish.com\/\"><strong>StudyLegalEnglish.com<\/strong><\/a>, about the legal English work I do at St. John&#8217;s Law School with the LLM students and other non-native English speaking students there. Since my experience on JET teaching English and learning to function well in a cross-cultural environment has been core to my current career, and since JETs often want to know what people do after JET, I thought I&#8217;d share the interview here in case of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the podcast episode titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studylegalenglish.com\/episode81\"><strong>LL.M. Legal Writing Tips with Stephen Horowitz<\/strong><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Topics covered<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Legal English LLM programmes for non-native speakers<\/li>\n<li>Legal English writing challenges and tips<\/li>\n<li>Using IRAC &#8211; Issue, Rule, Application, and Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Understanding categorization<\/li>\n<li>Legal English resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uy8U_q3TmP4\">video version of the podcast:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uy8U_q3TmP4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about what I do, or if you&#8217;re interested in getting into the field of legal English, you can read more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/stjohnslegalenglish.com\/\"><strong>St. John&#8217;s Legal English Blog<\/strong><\/a>. Feel free to contact me as well. (Did I mention I&#8217;m fortunate to work with two other JET alums at St. John&#8217;s Law School?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>******* ******* Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94) is the founder of JETwit, a member of the JETAA USA Board of Advisors, and Director of Legal English Programs at St. John&#8217;s University School of Law in Queens, NYC, &#8220;the most ethnically diverse urban place on the planet.&#8221; He also writes for the St. John&#8217;s Legal English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,7,10,25,825,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-blogs","category-career","category-interviewprofile","category-lifeafterjet","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-bI0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45017,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45012\/revisions\/45017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}