Student Profiles
Our outstanding students bring a rich array of experience, legal knowledge and cultures to USC Law. They come from countries all over the world.
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Sven Walser
Switzerland
Sven Walser graduated from the University of Fribourg (lic. iur.) in Switzerland, from which he received an additional degree in European Law. During his studies he was granted an ERASMUS scholarship to study for one year at the University of Southampton (UK), where he deepened his knowledge in European law and IP/IT. In 2004, Sven began his professional career as a law clerk at the District Court of Fribourg, where he worked in the fields of family, contract, debt enforcement, and criminal law. He then moved to Zurich in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and started a traineeship in the litigation/arbitration team of a major international law firm in Zurich. After passing the Zurich Bar exam, Sven worked as an attorney at a smaller international business law firm in Zug, and after the merger with a mid-sized law firm in Zurich, where he practiced mainly corporate and bankruptcy law, and advised and supported private clients and their families in their wealth and estate planning and in some litigation and arbitration matters. During the LL.M. program Sven is focusing on business law, i.e. corporate finance, M&A and securities regulation in order to receive the Business Law Certificate.
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Virginia Santana Correa Oliveira
Brazil
Virginia Santana Correa Oliveira pursued her law degree in 2007 at the University of Salvador in Brazil. During her studies, she interned in the Federal Court of Bahia, and the Citizen’s Rights division within the Federal Prosecution Service in Bahia. After graduation, Ms. Oliveira became a member of the Brazilian Bar and the same year started working as an attorney for the Attorney General’s Office of the Municipality of Camacari in Bahia, where she represented the Municipality in civil litigation in producing legal responses to civil complaints and attended related legal hearings and meetings. In 2009, Ms. Oliveira obtained a certified specialization in civil procedure at the Bahian School of Law. The goal of furthering her law studies by attending an LL.M program in the U.S., the country where affirmative action first developed as a legal issue, has been a strong desire of Ms. Oliveira’s since completing her undergraduate senior thesis on the constitutionality of affirmative action programs in the public universities of Bahia. Her ultimate goal is to become a federal public prosecutor who defends diffused, collective, and homogeneous individual interests.
