The University of San Francisco School of Law educates students to be effective lawyers with a social conscience, high ethical standards, and a global perspective. Recognizing that globalization can offer great benefits to the promotion of justice and the protection of human rights, the USF School of Law has developed an innovative mix of international programs and courses focusing on contemporary issues and the law related conflicts of our complex society.

Curriculum
The USF School of Law has developed an extensive selection of elective courses in international and comparative law, which circle the globe from Asia to the European Union and touch on business, criminal, environmental, and human rights law. Courses in international law offered at USF include Comparative Law, International Business Transactions, International Economic Relations, Public International Law, Asian Legal Systems, Chinese Law, European Union Law, Law and Development, International Business Dispute Resolution, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law, International Intellectual Property, and International Trade Law Seminar.

USF offers a certificate in International and Comparative Law to J.D. students in conjunction with the law school's Center for Law and Global Justice. USF School of Law also offers two master of law programs (in international transactions and comparative law and in intellectual property law) for students and practitioners who have received a law degree from a university outside the United States. J.D. graduates are also able to apply for the master's program in intellectual property law.

Our extensive menu of international programs provides exceptional opportunities to study and intern abroad. Traditional summer study abroad programs are offered in cities including Dublin and Prague, and internship and service opportunities are offered in India, Vietnam, Spain, China, Cambodia, and the Dominican Republic.

Faculty
An accomplished faculty of dedicated teachers and noted scholars is the foundation of the USF School of Law's academic program. USF also maintains a unique faculty exchange program, which brings distinguished visiting educators from abroad to teach specialized international law courses. Institutions with which we maintain exchange programs include East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, Trinity College in Dublin, and Charles University in Prague. The program is part of the law school's larger efforts to promote a new model of international legal education, one which fosters an interactive relationship between our students and faculty and the host country.

Constance de la Vega
Professor and Academic Director of International Programs
BA, Scripps College
JD, UC Berkeley
Professor de la Vega has written extensively on international human rights legal issues and has participated at various United Nations human rights meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, and New York. De la Vega has submitted amicus briefs detailing international law standards to U.S. courts to cases involving such issues as affirmative action and juvenile sentencing. She is co-author of International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), and serves on the advisory group for the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University. Previously, de la Vega was an attorney for the East Palo Alto Community Law Project and the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County. She teaches American Legal Systems, International Human Rights Law, and the International Human Rights Clinic.

Reza R. Dibadj
Professor
SB, Harvard University
MBA, Harvard University
JD, Harvard University
During his six years in academia, Professor Dibadj has written more than 15 law review articles, several book reviews, and more than a dozen op-ed pieces, focusing on corporate and securities law, social welfare theory, antitrust law, and regulation and administrative law. He is author of Rescuing Regulation (State University of New York Press, 2006). Additional work has appeared in the Cardozo Law Journal (2005), Ohio State Law Journal (2003), and New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy (2003). Dibadj spent several years with Temple, Barker & Sloane, now known as Mercer, and also as assistant professor at the School of Business Administration, University of Miami. He teaches Administrative Law, Antitrust, Corporations, International Business Transactions, and Securities Regulation.

Dolores A. Donovan
Professor and Director of International Program Development
BA, Stanford University
JD, Stanford University
Professor Donovan has been a law professor at USF since 1975, where she has worked on expanding international legal education opportunities and programs. With Dean Jeffrey Brand, Donovan founded the law school's Center for Law and Global Justice in 1999. While on leave from the law school in 2003-2005, Donovan was the South Asia Regional Equity Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development in New Delhi, India. She previously practiced law in Saigon, Vietnam, as an attorney for the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee, and in Washington, D.C. as a specialist in federal criminal trials. In addition, she was a Fulbright Professor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Donovan teaches Asian Legal Systems, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and International Development Law.

David J. Franklyn
Professor, Director of the LLM program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, and Director of the McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law
BA, Evangel College
JD, University of Michigan
Professor Franklyn is author of numerous articles on trademark issues, and is co-author of McCarthy's Desk Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property (BNA Books, Third Edition, 2005). His work is published in the Intellectual Property Law Bulletin (2007), and the Hastings Law Journal (2004), among others. In 2008, he presented at a U.S. Department of Commerce conference on intellectual property rights enforcement in Beijing, China. Franklyn previously clerked for the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan. He also spent five years in private practice in Chicago, and later taught at Northern Kentucky University, where he received the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. Franklyn teaches Copyright, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Theory, International Intellectual Property, and Trademark Law.

Jack I. Garvey
Professor
BA, Harvard University
JD, Harvard University
Professor Garvey has taught at the law school since 1976, and specializes in international law, trade, and arbitration. His work appears in the Journal of Conflict and Security Law (2007, 2005), published by Oxford University Press, the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (2000), the American Journal of Comparative Law (1999), and numerous other journals. Garvey was a visiting professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the East China Institute of Politics and Law. He served as a special assistant to Sen. George McGovern during his presidential campaign, and was a fellow of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Garvey teaches Contracts, Public International Law, and International Dispute Resolution.