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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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.
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Sathien Rungthongkhamkul
Thailand
Sathien Rungthongkhamkul earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from Thammasat University and the Thai Barrister-at-Law license from the Institute of Legal Education of the Thai Bar Association. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul worked as an associate lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Bangkok for nearly five years. During that period, he was assigned to provide the firm's clients with general legal advice, draft various types of commercial contracts and handle corporate structure and a number of merger and acquisition deals in Thailand. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul mainly specialized in insurance law and mergers and acquisitions. In 2006, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a judge in the Thai Court. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul currently serves in the Ranong Provincial Court, where he is responsible for adjudicating civil and criminal cases. He intends to focus his studies on U.S. criminal justice and some on corporate and business law as well.
