News and Developments in International Law and Legal Education Published as an information resource for the ASIL membership, the ASIL Academic Bulletin reports on program developments at ASIL 2008 Academic Partner institutions. January 2008
Georgetown University Law Center ASIL Links Home Academic Partnership Program Academic Bulletin Archive Career Development Resouces Georgetown University Law Center offers one of the largest transnational and international legal education programs in the world. Located in the nation's capital and with a campus of major new buildings that include an international and comparative law library, Georgetown Law is one of the leading global law schools. The array of courses dealing with transnational, international, and comparative law is extraordinarily comprehensive, numbering more than 150. This curriculum is generated and sustained by a full-time faculty of 110, including more than 30 currently focused on transnational and international curriculum subjects. They are joined by more than 90 distinguished Washington, D.C., practitioners from inside and outside the government. Several foreign law professors also visit each year, some as part of faculty exchanges. From among the faculty, Georgetown wants especially to congratulate Professor John H. Jackson. ASIL is awarding him the Hudson Medal for his contributions to "scholarship and achievement in international law." In spring 2006, the faculty added to the curriculum, "Week One: Law in a Global Context." Week One introduces all first-year J.D. students at the start of their second semester to a transnational legal problem that builds upon the American law they have studied and adds elements of foreign law, a foreign court or international dispute resolution system, and role playing. About 300 foreign students from more than 70 countries are a part of the student body. Each year, Georgetown offers Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) programs for about 190 students who received their legal training outside of the United States. www.law.georgetown.edu/graduate/ The transnational and international academic programs also include: A Semester Abroad program that placed nearly 40 Georgetown J.D. students at nine world-class, foreign law schools this academic year, with further growth planned for next year; More than 100 international internships during the summer; A Summer Program in London; Global Law Scholars chosen from the J.D. students; Joint degree programs; Visiting Scholars and Visiting Researchers; Institutes and specialized programs, such as the Human Rights Institute, Institute of . International Economic Law, Center for Transnational Business and the Law, Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas, Asian Law and Policy Studies, Center on National Security Law, and the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Clinics addressing international human rights and political refugees; Several law journals, including the Georgetown Journal of International Law For further information on Georgetown Law's programs, you are encouraged to visit: www.law.georgetown.edu/oitp/