Flex-LLM in U.S. Law: Accelerated D.C. Bar Prep
An affordable US LLM in the Heart of Korea
The Flex-LLM program at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School provides foreign-trained lawyers with a targeted fast track strategy to qualify to practice U.S. law in Washington, D.C. It also serves Korean lawyers or corporate executives who wish to increase their professional competencies and become more knowledgeable about US law, but do not wish to sit for the bar. Our law program is ranked No. 31 out of 196 in Best Law Schools (U.S. News & World Report 2025) and No. 39 in the world (Times Higher Education).
The curriculum covers the structure of the U.S. government and legal system and includes substantive areas of law that meet the subject credit requirements and high standards of learning for the Washington, D.C. Bar examination. Full-time study from January or August will prepare you to sit for the Bar exam in the following year in February.
The program's features include
- A convenient classroom location along with remote-learning options that make the program accessible to working professionals
- Inclusion of the BARBRI bar preparation program in the cost of tuition. BARBRI is the leading provider of bar preparation courses
- A curriculum that allows students to earn the LLM degree in just 1 year of full-time study
- Access to Scalia law school resources, including library and advising services, as well as learning support and advising in Korea
- Affordable tuition. The 28-credit program's full cost for tuition and fees is $43,876(as of Fall 2025). Your cost may be lower, as scholarships for the degree program are available, as are corporate discounts.
Program Schedule
There are two start points for this program, in January and August. Students who start the program in January and August complete it in one year can take the February DC Bar exam.
| Course Title | Credits | Session | Location | Mode | Dates |
| Contracts | 2 | Fall Session 1 | Korea or Online | Hybrid | Aug 25 - Oct 19 |
| Criminal Law | 2 | Fall Session 1 | Online | Asynchronous | Aug 25 - Oct 19 |
| Intro. to US Law | 1 | Fall Session 1 | Online | Asynchronous | Aug 25 - Oct 19 |
| Constitutional Law | 3 | Fall Session 2 | Korea or Online | Hybrid | Oct 22 - Dec 17 |
| Professional Responsibility | 2 | Fall Session 2 | Online | Asynchronous | Oct 22 - Dec 17 |
Fall 2025 Korea-based Faculty Bios
In addition to faculty based at Mason's Scalia Law School who will teach the online courses in this hybrid curriculum, two distinguished US lawyers with years of experience will be teaching the Korea-based, in-person courses during Fall 2025. Both have years of practicing law in the US along with a notably global outlook.
Omario Kanji is a cross-border attorney who began his legal career in securities law, assisting Chinese companies’ initial public offerings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has since assisted entrepreneur and SME-clients in their corporate growth, intellectual property management, and global business strategies. Omario resided in Italy for three years and in Beijing and Hong Kong for eight years and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, and Kutchi (a dialect of Gujarati, from the Indian subcontinent), and is conversational in Korean.
Omario earned a BA in Psychology and Italian from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in International Relations and China Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor. He also received an LLM in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Omario is licensed to practice law in the states of California and New York and the District of Columbia.
In the past, Omario served as Adjunct Associate Professor and Assistant Academic Director of Global Immersions at Temple University’s Fox School of Business in Philadelphia, assisting MBA candidates in understanding the international business environment. Omario has led two-week business study excursions to Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Munich, San Juan P.R., Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Tokyo, and Wuhan. Omario’s MBA students elected him Professor of the Year in 2013 and 2014. Omario has also served as adjunct professor in the Temple University–Tsinghua Rule LL.M. Program in Beijing, China, teaching corporate compliance, torts, and intellectual property law.
Omario currently serves as Senior Fellow at the National Security Institute (NSI) at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. Along with NSI Founder and Executive Director Jamil N. Jaffer and NSI Deputy Executive Director Jessica L. Jones, Omario launched NSI's summer study program, where Scalia Law students traveled abroad to study the Separation of Powers and National Security & Interbranch Conflicts with Professor Jaffer and SCOTUS Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Omario also serves as legal and strategy counsel to a family real estate office, managing real estate portfolios in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Toronto and Porto.
Omario shows both clients and students how theoretical concepts of international law and international business practices collide with practical realities such as culture, history, and developmental economics. Omario delights in demonstrating the immense challenges and rewards of conducting business abroad, whether in Europe, South America, Asia or Africa.