The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law is dedicated to global legal education. Drawing on a multilingual student body and an exceptional faculty of world-leading expertise, the Quinney College's Global Initiative supports an exciting array of contributions to issues of conflict and security, climate change, justice reform, democracy and religion, new frontiers of family law, mediation, technology commercialization, globalizing philanthropy, and many other topics.
The Global Initiative's programs include:
- A collaborative model for cross-training programs on the rule of law;
- A student-supported research think tank called Global Justice through Research, which has conducted research for the U.N., the UNDP in Asia, the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Government of Rwanda, the World Trade Center (Utah), and many others;
- An international summer externship program, including placements at the war crimes tribunals at the Hague, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and several clinics and semester-long externships in international humanitarian law, international environmental law, and the rule of law;
- A book series, Law Across Borders (Aspen Publishers), designed to globalize basic U.S. and foreign law courses (with first volumes to appear in 2009);
- Intense simulation methods for teaching leadership and decision-making, e.g., a seven-hour counterterrorism simulation on Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism;
- An internationally experienced student body, in which two-thirds speak at least one foreign language fluently, and each class of 125 students reflects a mastery of 25-30 languages as a group; and
- World-class faculty with expertise in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, including:
- Hiram Chodosh (global justice reform, focus on Asia and Middle East)
- Erika George (women's rights, education, and health care, focus on Africa)
- Amos Guiora (former Lieutenant-Colonel IDF, counterterrorism expert)
- James Holbrook (global mediation)
- Ralph Mabey (former federal bankruptcy judge, international insolvency)
- Chibli Mallat (Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, Jean Monnet Chair)
- Wayne McCormack (counterterrorism and security)
- Amb. Pierre Prosper (former Ambassador at Large for War Crimes)
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