The Payson Center for International Development & Technology Transfer became a part of Tulane Law School in 2008. Through the Payson Center, law students may pursue joint degrees in law and international development, and a variety of summer internship opportunities throughout the world have been made available to Tulane law students. In 2008, students worked in Europe and Africa.

Our international and comparative law faculty continues to be among the strongest in the world with the recent arrival of Professor Joerg Fedtke from University College London. Professor Fedtke is well known for his expertise on questions of constitutionalism throughout the world. His current research projects include the use of comparative methodology in international commercial practice; human rights protection in Germany, the United Kingdom, and on the European level; constitutionalism in post-conflict societies; data protection and access to information; and questions of law reform. He has published extensively on constitutional law, tort law, and comparative methodology. Professor Fedtke joins Professor James Gordley, who joined Tulane's faculty in 2007 from Berkeley Law. Professor Gordley's most recent publication addresses the protection of privacy in Europe and the US. He is an expert on private law in both common law and civil law systems. Professor Gunther Handl continues his work in the area of international environmental law, as well as other aspects of public law.

Professor Tania Tetlow spoke at an International Workshop on public interest and legal education sponsored by John Hopkins' School of International Studies in Nanjing China on December 9, 2008. In November, Professor Tetlow participated in an Oxford Union-style debate about the "End of American Ascendency" opposite a Deputy U.S. Secretary of State. This was part of a British-American Project conference in Los Angeles. In June, Professor Tetlow spoke about the "Nature of American Citizenship," at a conference on British-American Identity in Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK.