Students at Penn State Law enjoy an exceptionally rich international program of study that is enhanced through opportunities for collaboration and exchange with Penn State's School of International Affairs, the faculty, curriculum, and administration of which are deeply integrated with Penn State Law. This relationship has enriched enormously the intellectual life of the law school and its capacity to deliver to its students ever-expanding opportunities for international interactions and cross-border, interdisciplinary studies. Penn State law students may take electives from the School of International Affairs and learn from a faculty of former diplomats, national leaders, and government analysts, as well as scholars of international economics, agricultural development, and business.

Many Penn State law faculty have exceptional depth in international issues, enabling the law school to offer advanced coursework in comparative and international commercial law, constitutional law, corporate law, and humanitarian law, among other areas.

Penn State's law and international faculty include:

• Tiyanjana Maluwa, who currently serves as a legal expert and advisor for the Africa Union High-Level Panel on Darfur, led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki. Professor Maluwa previously served as legal advisor to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and as the first legal counsel of the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union).
• William E. Butler, the preeminent authority on the law of Russia and other former Soviet republics and the author, co-author, editor, or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems.
• Ambassador Dennis Jett, former U.S. Ambassador to Peru and Mozambique and former special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Ambassador Jett is a scholar of international relations, foreign aid, and American foreign policy.
• Ambassador Richard Butler AC, a recognized expert in nuclear arms control and disarmament. As executive chairman of the UN Special Commission to Disarm Iraq (UNSCOM), Ambassador Butler was the UN's chief arms inspector of Iraq between 1997 and 1999.
• Randall Robinson, an internationally acclaimed author and whose books and scholarly interests focus on U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean and Africa; the use of foreign policy to achieve social goals, and racial equity. Professor Robinson is the founder of TransAfrica and established the Free South Africa Movement.
• Dean Philip J. McConnaughay, who focuses his scholarship on the relationship between contractual choice clauses and prescriptive and adjudicative jurisdiction, and on the role of arbitration in economic development.
• Thomas E. Carbonneau, a scholar of international and domestic arbitration and the author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed books.
• Catherine Rogers, a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics who holds a joint appointment as a professor of law at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
• Takis Tridimas, a distinguished scholar of European Union law, financial services, trade, and comparative constitutional law who holds a joint appointment as the Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law at the University of London's Queen Mary College.
• Flynt Leverett, who served as the senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council and was a charter member of the Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Analytic Service. Professor Flynt is an expert in global energy issues, international political economy, and the Middle East and Persian Gulf.
• Denis F. Simon, a scholar of international and comparative business strategy, technological innovation, and global management of technology, with special reference to China and the Pacific Rim. He was recently appointed a "Hai-Tian" Scholar by the Dalian University of Technology.
• Marco Ventoruzzo, a scholar of business law who holds a joint appointment with Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he is director of the Corporate and Business Law Ph.D. program and vice director of the Paolo Baffi Research Center on Central Banking and Financial Regulation. Since 2001, he has been special legal consultant to the Italian Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange Group).
• John Kelmelis, who served most recently as senior counselor for earth science in the Office of the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, where he provided policy advice to the White House, Department of State, and other high-level government entities on geology, hydrology, biology, geography, and related sciences and technologies in establishing and executing U.S. foreign policy.
• Laurel S. Terry, an expert in international and interjurisdictional regulation of the legal profession. Her recent scholarship focuses on issues related to the application of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade Services to legal services.

Penn State Law has also established student and faculty exchange programs with the University of Cape Town in South Africa, the University of Maastricht Faculty of Law in the Netherlands, and Yeditepe University in Turkey. The law school also offers one of the oldest and most prestigious master of laws programs for foreign-trained lawyers, whose presence at the law school enriches the diversity of the educational experience.