Professor Ken Port
William Mitchell Professor Ken Port has been selected to join Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s trade delegation to Asia in September.
Port will join 59 other Minnesotans from various businesses and government organizations on the trip, which will include stops in Shanghai and Tokyo from Sept. 8-19. His goal is to recruit students to Mitchell and its new LL.M. Program, which introduces foreign law graduates to the legal system of the United States.
“I’m excited that Gov. Pawlenty would include William Mitchell on this itinerary and give us an opportunity to make the case for Mitchell to students and lawyers in China and Japan,” said Port, who is the director of Mitchell’s Intellectual Property Institute. “We look forward to increasing our success in educating Japanese and Chinese students in American law.”
According to the state trade office, China imports more than $1 billion of Minnesota products every year, making it the second biggest trade market after Canada.