From July 15 to August 9, ELI again conducted the American Law and Legal English Institute (ALLEI), an intensive four-week introduction to U. S. law and the U. S. legal system. Fourteen judges, lawyers and law students from Spain, Austria, Columbia, Chile, Mexico, Tanzania, Morocco, Taiwan and China took classes and seminars in such topics as contracts and commercial law, constitutional law, product liability and international law. The classes were taught by attorney Chris Wolfe of the ELI staff, as well as by several other attorneys and judges in Delaware. The legal scholars visited several courts, law firms and government agencies in Delaware, Washington, D.C. and New York City. In Washington, the group had VIP tours of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Capitol. After completing their studies in ALLEI, six of the fourteen scholars returned to their legal duties at home, and the other eight went on to study at several different U. S. law schools.
In the fall of 1995, ELI hosted judges of Ukraine's two highest supreme courts in a federal grant program awarded to the Institute by the United States Information Agency. The grant provided training in American corporate and commercial law. In April 1996, Chris Wolfe, academic coordinator for the program, finished the work of the grant by returning to Kiev, Ukraine, to spend two weeks teaching as a visiting scholar at the Ukrainian Center for Legal Studies, the first and only graduate level law school in Ukraine. During that time, he taught classes in American law and the American court system to students of the law school and also to students at the Ukrainian School of International Relations and Diplomacy.
The federal grant also made a tremendous contribution to Ukraine's first Western-style law library. While in Kiev, Chris delivered $10,000 worth of law books to the library. The library's director stated that this contribution was the largest and most useful collection ever donated to the library.
As a result of the success of the first grant, ELI was awarded a second USIA grant to continue legal training in 1996. In November, ELI hosted ten lawyers, judges and law enforcement officers for a four-week program in Criminal Justice Administration. The participants, all from Ternopil, Ukraine, had classes and seminars in American Criminal Law, Court Procedure and Criminal Justice. They also spent ten days in practical "hands-on" internships with the Delaware State Police, the FBI, the Delaware prosecutor's office and Delaware courts and even went to prison! Fortunately, it was only a tour and they were released in less than a day. The participants have now returned to Ukraine and will pass on the knowledge they received by sharing with their colleagues and putting their experience to practical use.