American University Washington College of Law

American University Washington College of Law continuously responds to today’s global challenges. Our students, faculty, and special programs engage the world through scholarship, conferences, and outreach, making the law school an exciting institution whose international aspects add a unique dimension to its legal academic enterprise.

Summer Law Programs Abroad
The law school’s Summer Law Programs Abroad offer students exciting opportunities to broaden their learning and networking experiences through travel in foreign countries. The law school's programs feature courses that focus on leading specializations including international business and trade, international criminal law, human rights, and environmental law.

Chile: May 31 - June 26
Now in its 21st year, the Summer Program in Chile offers opportunities to learn from dozens of leading faculty, practitioners, government officials, and policy makers. Held in Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina, courses focus on trade and investment in Latin America and comparative legal perspectives on social problems.

Europe - London/Paris/Brussels/Geneva: June 1 - June 30
The Summer Program in Europe introduces law students and attorneys to evolving legal concepts and structures in Europe and in the international arena. Now in its 16th year, the program focuses on the nature and dynamics of European legal institutions and the development of a body of European laws.

The Hague: May 31 - June 26
The Summer Program in The Hague offers an opportunity to study critical issues of international criminal law and international legal approaches to terrorism while living in the heart of the international justice community. The program includes site visits to the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Israel: May 30 - June 27
New in 2010, the Summer Program in Israel brings participants to Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem while studying curriculum focused on topics of trade and investment as well as human and civil rights. Courses are taught by leading experts from universities and non-governmental organizations in Israel. The program includes site visits to key legal institutions and renowned sites such as the Dead Sea and Masada.

Turkey: May 31 - June 26
The Summer Law Program in Turkey provides an international view of rule-of-law issues relevant to Turkey, Central Asia, and the Middle East, as well as the legal challenges involved in accession to the European Union. The program also includes field trips to Ankara, where students meet World Bank staff, and to Ephesus.

Specialized Summer Programs in Washington, DC
Practitioners and students from around the globe learn from experts in the field and get intensive training that will give them a competitive edge. These programs qualify for academic or CLE credit.

Human Rights: May 31 – June 18
The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law offers training and courses in human rights for scholars, practitioners and students interested in the international human rights system and laws. Choose from 18 courses, 10 in English and 8 in Spanish.

Environmental Law: June 1 – June 18
This Environmental Law Session provides law students, practitioners, and other environmental professionals and scholars with an opportunity for environmental law training over a three-week period. Courses are taught by leading practitioners from government, business, and non-governmental organizations.

International Commercial Arbitration: June 1 – June 18
Taught by leading practitioners and arbitrators from throughout the world, the International Commercial Arbitration Program focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of international arbitration, and provides insights on the practice of international arbitration and the handling of arbitration cases.

International Intellectual Property and Development: June 1 – July 1
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)’s summer sessions offer a concentrated program of courses designed for U.S. and foreign law students, practitioners, government officials, and scholars interested in the advanced study of international intellectual property law.

Legal English: June 28 – July 15
The Summer Legal English Institute introduces foreign practitioners and incoming LL.M. students to Legal English concepts, speaking, and writing. Through daily lectures, written assignments, in-class exercises, contract negotiations, and a moot court exercise over a three-week period, students whose native language is not English will practice a wide array of Legal English skills.

Clinical Program
Thirty-five years ago, American University Washington College of Law was one of the first law schools to develop modern clinical legal education. Today, the law school’s Clinical Program is recognized for its leadership in scholarship, development of clinical methodology, contributions to increasing access to justice for underserved clients, and breadth of offerings. Approximately 230 students participate in a clinic experience each academic year – making the Clinical Program one of the largest in the United States.

The Clinical Program serves a diverse group of individual and institutional clients through ten clinics:

• General Practice Clinic
• Community and Economic Development Clinic
• Criminal Justice Clinic
• D.C. Law Students in Court
• Disability Rights Clinic
• Domestic Violence Clinic
• Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic
• International Human Rights Clinic
• Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic
• Women and the Law Clinic

New Clinic for 2010-2011: Immigrant Justice Clinic
A new offering from the Clinical Program for the 2010-2011 academic year, the Immigrant Justice Clinic will provide representation on a broad range of cases involving immigrant communities in the D.C. area. These include cases of exploited low-wage immigrant workers (e.g., domestic workers, restaurant workers, and day laborers), including trafficked individuals, asylum and non-asylum immigration cases, and language rights cases. Student attorneys will work with individual clients and client groups, and gain exposure to immigrant organizing efforts and immigrants’ rights policymaking in the D.C. area.

International Externship Program
The law school’s International Externship Program offers students a unique opportunity to earn academic credit while performing fieldwork in legal, governmental, and non-governmental organizations, and courts in countries around the world. Participants are linked to faculty supervisors and classmates via long distance learning technologies for on-going discussion and reflection on their work experiences. More than 30 countries in South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia are offering opportunities for American University Washington College of Law students this summer.

The Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University seeks to teach and inspire research about new forms of transnational public-private governance that do not fit neatly into the old paradigms of public international law. To advance this vision, the Center sponsors courses, colloquia, conferences, collaborative research initiatives, and advocacy projects that emphasize not just the traditional materials of international law, but the complex webs of transnational and international law in practice, with an emphasis on qualitative empirical work and policy implementation on the ground.

Study Abroad:

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law has established exchange programs with the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella School of Law (Buenos Aires, Argentina), the University of Victoria School of Law (British Columbia, Canada), the National University of Singapore (NUS), Universite Rene Descartes, Paris V University and Bocconi University School of Law (Milan, Italy). In addition to the cultural and educational benefits of an exchange program the financial benefit is that Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law students participating in the program pay the tuition and fees for ASU not for the exchange institution.

Washington, D.C., Legal Externship Program:

Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, in partnership with The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars offers a special program for second- and third-year law students attending ABA-accredited law schools. Offered only during the spring and fall semesters, this program helps students acquire deep and practical expertise in their areas of professional interest, get an insider's view of legal and policy developments in the nation's capital, and develop experience and connections that will be valued by employers in the Washington, D.C., area and elsewhere. The program will help students identify and apply for externships in government or non-profit organizations where they will work approximately 4 1/2 days per week. Monday afternoons are dedicated to special programming. Students will enroll in courses taught by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law faculty in Washington, D.C. Courses will focus on subjects such as federal legislative and regulatory advocacy. Students may also attend The Washington Center's President's Lecture Series and Public Policy Dialogues on Capitol Hill. Credit for the externship and coursework is awarded through the Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, a well regarded ABA-accredited law school. Here are some example externship sites:

• U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser
• U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
• U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Tribal Justice
• White House Council on Environmental Quality, General Counsel's Office
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, General Counsel's Office
• U.S. House of Representatives & Senate
• U.S. Department of Defense General Counsel's Office
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services General Counsel's Office
• American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
• U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia
• U.S. Federal Trade Commission
• Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender
• American Civil Liberties Union
• International Municipal Lawyers Association
• Earthjustice
• Interpol, Office of the General Counsel
• Embassy of Canada

Summer Fellowships in Transnational Law:

The Center for Law & Global Affairs offers summer fellowships for students who seek externships that focus on transnational law issues. With the assistance of our Career Services office, students have the opportunity to work at an externship site of their choice.

Program to Study and Combat Human Trafficking:

The Program to Study and Combat Human Trafficking focuses on how international and local legal regimes can best be coordinated to address the web of legal issues surrounding human trafficking. In this program, students are placed in internships and engaged in research and advocacy that focus on human trafficking.

Clinical Programs:

At the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, you will have plenty of opportunities to get the hands-on experience that you want through our clinical programs, externships, and pro bono projects. Today, the Clinical Program consists of ten clinics including the the Civil Justice Clinic, the Criminal Practice Clinic, the Public Defender Clinic, the Lodestar Mediation Clinic, the Indian Legal Clinic, the Immigration Law and Policy Clinic, the Technology Ventures Services Group, the Post-Conviction Clinic, the Lisa Foundation Patent Law Clinic and the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Clinic.

Pro Bono Program:

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law takes very seriously our role in forging the values of our students and in developing their sense of responsibility for public service. It is our goal that throughout our students' professional careers they will recognize an ethical obligation to perform public interest work and we realize the importance of their law school experience in instilling that obligation.

LLM Program:

The Master of Laws (LL.M.) program allows one year of post-JD study tailored to the scholarly and practice interests of participating students. Concentrations are being developed in a variety of areas in which the law school holds particular strength. The LL.M. in US Law and Global Legal Practice is designed for foreign lawyers who wish to learn about the US legal system. Two other, more specialized LL.M. programs are offered by the College of Law. The groundbreaking Master of Laws in Biotechnology and Genomics is the first degree of its kind in the nation. It provides students with indepth study of the scientific and policy aspects of genomics. Through classroom instruction and guided independent study, students explore the laws that enable and constrain the development, control, and application of biotechnology and genomics, including areas such as public health law, agricultural law and policy, and intellectual property. Because of the strength of our Indian Legal Program, the LL.M. in Tribal Policy, Law, and Government was also established. It allows lawyers interested in teaching or practice related to Native American issues to further their career goals through a one-year practicum track or a two-year thesis track.

To learn more about these exciting programs please visit www.law.asu.edu.

Boston University School of Law

International Law at BU Law

In today’s global economy, hardly any area of law is exempt from international considerations. BU Law is committed to providing its students with a comprehensive understanding of the complex legal, political, economic and business dimensions of an interconnected world – so they can effectively represent their clients, here and abroad. The school’s robust international portfolio includes:

International Dual Degree Programs

BU Law offers a range of internationally-focused dual degree programs, enabling students to earn a J.D./MA or a J.D./LL.M. degree on an accelerated basis:

• J.D./LL.M. in European Law with Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
• J.D./LL.M. in Asian Legal Studies with the National University of Singapore
• J.D./M.A. in Law and International Relations
• J.D./LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law

International Clinical & Externship Programs

BU Law students can gain hands-on, practical experience addressing international issues:

• Asylum & Human Rights Clinic:  Students represent clients in asylum or humanitarian/refugee related cases and complete a significant research project.
• Africa i-Parliaments Clinic:  Students produce high quality research reports, draft bill language, and report on recently passed African statutes and governmental reform.  This clinic is designed to support the African Parliamentary Knowledge Network in building the capacity of African parliaments to draft and enact more effective legislation.
• Semester-in-Practice Program:  Through the Human Rights Externship, students may spend a semester working full-time for credit in Geneva at a Non-Governmental Organization committed to the protection of human rights.

Study Abroad Programs

Through any of the school’s 13 semester-long study abroad programs, students can immerse themselves at a leading foreign law school, and learn first-hand about the laws and legal traditions of countries throughout the world:

• University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Tsinghua Law School (Beijing, China)
• University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
• University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College (Oxford, England)
• Université Jean Moulin (Lyon, France)
• Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) (Paris, France)
• Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany)
• Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
• University of Florence (Florence, Italy)
• University of Leiden  (Leiden, The Netherlands)
• National University of Singapore (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
• Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) (Madrid, Spain)
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)

Summer International Internship Program

The Summer International Internship Program (SIIP) connects J.D. students with summer internship opportunities outside the U.S. through partnerships with overseas law firms, companies, and inter- and non-governmental organizations. Students receive real-world experience in international practice settings, gain exposure to cross-border legal work related to a specific country or region of interest, learn about other legal systems and cultures and make connections with experienced international practitioners.

Boston University International Law Journal

The Boston University International Law Journal was established in 1980 to provide a forum for student interests and scholarship in the field of international law. The biannual journal strives to publish groundbreaking and even controversial professional articles and student-written notes analyzing the most current issues of public and private international law, foreign and comparative law and trade law. Recent articles have examined:  the need for online alternative dispute resolution in international e-commerce, the right to privacy in the United Kingdom and economic sanctions as a use of force under international law.  In addition to its publications, the Boston University International Law Journal also sponsors symposia, most recently "Developments in International Disability Sports Law."  

BU Law International Law Society

The International Law Society (ILS), a student-run organization, promotes awareness of global events and a greater understanding of diverse legal cultures and their role in the world today. ILS sponsors a variety of events throughout the year to bring students, faculty, law professionals and other interested people together to learn more about this important area of law. In the past, speakers have included faculty members, government experts and visiting scholars with particular areas of expertise. Events range from language tables, sponsored film series, hosted seminars, luncheons and round table discussions on issues of international concern. Such social activities and speakers encourage cultural exchange and vibrant academic discussion about this exciting field of law.

Our International Community

BU Law’s global persona is palpable and impossible to escape:  the school’s J.D. students often take classes with internationally-trained LL.M. students, who bring their foreign and cross-border work experience to the classroom. And this all takes place at one of America’s most international and diverse universities, Boston University, which welcomes over 5000 international students and scholars to campus year.

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Introduction: The “Case Global” program at Case Western Reserve University School of Law is composed of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute (est. 1976), Frederick K. Cox International Law Center (endowed in 1991), LL.M. in U.S. and Global Legal Studies (est. 1991), Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office (est. 2002), Institute for Global Security Law and Policy (est. 2004), Summer Institute for Global Justice in the Netherlands (est. 2005), and Cyberspace Law and Policy Office (est. 2008).  For a video description of our international law program see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXaVVo7kGiA

Worth Watching: On February 6 and 7, and March 21, 2010, C-SPAN Book TV broadcast the author discussion of Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser(Cambridge University Press, 2010), by  Cox Center Director Michael Scharf and Paul Williams. View the broadcast:  http://www.booktv.org/Program/11239/Shaping+Foreign+Policy+in+Times+of+
Crisis+The+Role+of+International+Law+and+the+State+Department+Legal+Adviser.aspx

Save the Date: September 10-11, 2010 – “Lawfare!” A Symposium and Experts Meeting:   You are invited to join us for the first major academic symposia dedicated to exploring the concept of “Lawfare.” Traditionally “Lawfare” was defined as “a strategy of using—or misusing—law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve an operational objective.”  But lately, commentators and governments have applied the concept to International Criminal Tribunals, the defense counsel’s tactics challenging the detention of al Qaeda suspects in Guantanamo Bay, and, as indicated in the quote above, to the controversial Goldstone Commission Report.  This symposium and experts meeting, featuring two-dozen leading academics, practitioners, and former government officials from all sides of the political spectrum, will examine the usefulness and appropriate application of the “Lawfare” concept.  View the Webcast of this event live, or anytime at: http://law.case.edu/lectures. 

International Moot Court Teams Garner Awards: The Case Western Reserve University School of Law team won the Chicago Super Regional of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition this year, as well as the Best Brief and Best Final Round Speaker awards at the competition.   This is the fourth year in a row that the team has won the Best Brief Award, and the third time in four years that it advanced to the Jessup International Rounds, including winning the World Championship in 2008.  In addition, the team made it to the Final Round and won the Best Advocate award at this year’s Niagara International Moot Court Competition, after having won the Niagara competition in 2009.

Clinical: Supported by an annual grant from the Open Society Institute, the 30 students enrolled in our War Crimes Research Lab have provided memos this year to the Office of the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal, Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the new Special Tribunal for Lebanon.  Students enrolled in our Global Financial Integrity Lab work on issues assigned by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, while those in our Homeland Security Lab work on issues assigned by the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard.  We also offer an Immigration Law Practicum, in which students work on real asylum and refugees cases.  Unique to our law school is the semester-long International Tribunal Externship Program, in which 12 students per year get a full-semester of academic credit for working in the fall or spring at the ECCC (Cambodia), ICTR (Rwanda), ICTY (Yugoslavia), SCSL (Sierra Leone), STL (Lebanon), or International Criminal Court. 

Internships/Externships:  With the support of its nearly $4 million special endowment, the Cox Center provides $50,000 per year in grants to support 25 summer and post-graduate internships abroad with international organizations, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Recently, the Planethood Foundation gave us a generous grant, allowing us to support 10 more international tribunal internship placements this year.

Study Abroad: In partnership with Washington University School of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law runs the six-week “Summer Institute for Global Justice” at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.  This year’s “Distinguished Visiting Jurist” is David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, who will be teaching Atrocity Law and Policy. Other courses include: International Perspectives on the Death Penalty, Contemporary Developments in International Human Rights Law, The Law of Archeological Relics, International Criminal Law and Procedure, and Comparative Law of Expressive Freedom in the EU and US.

International Law Journals:  Now in its forty-second year, the student-edited Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (JIL) publishes articles generated from the several major international conferences and experts meetings held each year at the School of Law, as well as student notes, and lectures on a wide range of international issues. Recent symposium issues have included “The Role of Justice in Building Peace,” “Rebuilding Nation Building,” “Torture and the War on Terror,” “Lessons from the Saddam Trial,” “Religion and Terrorism,” “To Prevent and Punish: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Negotiation of the Genocide Convention,” “Security Detention,” “Combating Terrorist Financing,” “The ICC and the Crime of Aggression,” and our fall 2009 issue: “After Guantanamo.”  We also publish the Canada-United States Law Journal (est. 1974).

About the Center

The Center for International Law and Justice (CILJ) at Florida A&M College of Law (FAMU COL) seeks to develop scholarly, educational, and practice-orientated activities for students and faculty. CILJ endeavors to be the nation’s leading center of excellence in research, training and advocacy in the international and comparative law of developing nations. 

News Flash

• The CILJ has organized international law internships for fifteen law students this summer at ten institutions in  the U.S., Tanzania, Ghana, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherlands, and Italy.

• FAMU COL is also pleased to announce that seven students will be studying abroad at the following institutions:

1. University of Florida College of Law, Costa Rica
2. University of Fordham School of Law, Seoul, Korea
3. Tulane University College of Law, Siena, Italy
4. Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Shimla, India
5. University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Barcelona, Spain
6. Willamette University College of Law, Shanghai, China

International Student Opportunities

The CILJ offers an array of opportunities for students interested in international law and foreign affairs including:

International Law Track

Students interested in the study and practice of international law and foreign affairs are encouraged to apply to be on the “International Law Track”.  Students that self-select to be on the International Law Track will receive information and data on international law-related events, lectures, symposia, conferences, research opportunities, study abroad programs and international law internships and fellowships.

International Human Rights Law Fellowship

Each year the CILJ awards one international human rights law fellowship to a first year law student.  The fellowship consists of a three-year full tuition scholarship and research assistantship with CILJ.  The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage students from minority groups, particularly those with international interests, to specialize in international law and increase the number of scholars/practitioners with expertise in the developing world.  The fellowship aims to evolve the student’s intellectual prowess and pragmatic sensibilities about important international law and policy issues through one-on-one mentoring with the Associate Dean for International Programs and through formal instruction.

International Law Internship Program

The International Law Internship is non-paid practical work experience that enables a student intern to gain advanced legal knowledge and skills within an organization, industry, or functional area that reflects the student’s academic and professional interests.  It is intended to provide law students with firsthand experience in government, international organizations, public and private interest law firms, nonprofit organizations and other areas of interest relevant to legal education.  The International Law Internship involves full-time work for 8 to 12 weeks (totaling a minimum of 45 hours of work for each credit earned).  Students may earn up to six hours of international law internship credit, but they cannot simultaneously earn credit and be paid.  Students must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.6/4.0 to participate in the International Law Internship Program.

Study Abroad Program

Students are highly encouraged to participate in American Bar Association approved study abroad programs.  In order to facilitate such experiences, the College of Law established two international law study abroad courses to provide students with internal academic credit for participating in foreign study abroad programs.  In order to be eligible to participate in any study abroad program, students must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5/4.0 prior to requesting permission to study abroad and may earn a maximum of six study abroad credits towards law school graduation. 

CILJ is establishing programs in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America in order to enhance and diversify the international law training of FAMU COL students and those enrolled in partner universities.  These programs will introduce students to the intricacies of foreign legal systems and expand their understanding of societies and cultures outside of their own. 

Courses

We currently offer twenty-three international law courses that address topics on Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

For further information please visit our website at: www.famu.edu/law
Florida A&M University College of Law
Center for International Law & Justice
201 Beggs Ave., Suite 325
Orlando, FL 32801
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Fx: (407) 254-4006

George Washington University Law School

Gruber Foundation International Law Fellow

GW Law is pleased to award Emily S. Newton the 2010 Gruber Foundation International Law Fellowship. The fellowship was established by the Peter & Patricia Gruber Foundation and supports a graduate of GW Law to participate in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) University Traineeship Programme. Ms. Newton follows Luke Wilson, J.D. ’09, the first Gruber Fellow, as well Daniel Fromm, J.D. ’08, who clerked at the ICJ from 2008–2009.

Special Programs Abroad

Our programs abroad are with distinguished educational institutions with which we have developed substantial and meaningful relationships. In particular, for 16 years, GW Law and the University of Oxford have jointly sponsored a summer program in International Human Rights Law. Our programs in Germany arise out of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, of which GW Law is a founding member along with the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, the University of Augsburg, and the Technische Universität München. 

GW–Oxford Program in International Human Rights Law
Under the leadership of Professor Ralph Steinhardt, the GW-Oxford Program in International Human Rights Law prepares students to contribute to the improvement of human rights conditions in their homelands and around the world. During the program’s four-week session, an internationally recognized faculty offers courses on the philosophy, history, doctrine, and practice of international human rights law. The program emphasizes advocacy and dissemination skills, as well as formal knowledge of human rights law, the means of its enforcement, and its status in a contentious world.
                                                                                                 
Munich Intellectual Property Law Summer Program
As a complement to its leading intellectual property program in Washington, D.C., GW Law offers a four-week intellectual property law program in Munich, Germany, a vibrant city less than an hour from the Alps, known as Europe’s “Intellectual Property Capital.” The program offers eight one-credit courses of which students can choose up to four, as well as special lectures and visits to local IP institutions such as the European Patent Office.

Augsburg Summer Program in European and International Economic Law
GW Law offers its students the opportunity to participate in the University of Augsburg’s six-week summer program in European and international economic law, which is offered for attorneys and law students from Germany and students from select U.S. and South African law schools. Courses in English cover the basic framework of transnational economic law, with an emphasis on the relevance of European Union law to the global economy.

North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE)
NACLE was formed in 1999 to promote increased understanding within North American countries of neighboring legal systems by providing opportunities for cross-border research, curriculum development, and student exchange. GW Law is a founding member of NACLE, and students may study at one of GW’s Canadian or Mexican partner schools through the partnership for one semester of their second or third year.

New Programs with University of Groningen and Universita’ Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”
Beginning in the academic year 2010-11, GW Law is launching two new exchange programs with prestigious European universities, the University of Groningen, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands, and  Universita’ Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” in Milan, Italy.

For more information, contact the Graduate Programs Office, International Students Division at (202) 994-7242 or e-mail: igpo@law.gwu.edu.

Clinical Education

International Human Rights Clinic
GW Law’s International Human Rights Clinic is dedicated primarily to litigating human rights cases before U.S. and international tribunals. The Clinic’s docket has included human rights cases either in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Statute and other federal statutes, or before international tribunals, such as those in the Inter-American Human Rights System. Some of its recent work has involved spearheading the effort to have former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori extradited from Chile to Peru and providing legal support for the criminal case in the courts of Peru that resulted in the conviction of Fujimori.  

Immigration Clinic
Since 1979, students of the Immigration Clinic have provided legal representation to aliens in the D.C. metropolitan area, applying their skills to defend the rights of aliens in obtaining affirmative benefits and to interpose defensive strategies to prevent removal. Clients include asylum applicants and individuals in deportation and removal proceedings for a variety of reasons. In representing clients under the supervision of the clinic director, students perform all aspects of case preparation including interviewing clients, writing pleadings, appearing in Immigration Court, and managing post-relief issues. GW Law students have won cases involving issues including female genital mutilation, sexual orientation, torture, HIV-status, and also have obtained freedom from detention for aliens.

Internships

GW Law students earn academic credit for work in many international public interest, government, judicial, and nonprofit organizations. Students have recently served as interns at organizations and agencies including the U.S. Department of State, Office of Private International Law and Office of the Legal Adviser; USAID; International Trade Commission; Overseas Private Investment Corporation; World Organization for Human Rights, USA; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; International Chamber of Commerce; International Court of Arbitration; Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Department of Justice; National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce; Tahirih Justice Center; and Asian American Justice Center.

Publications

The George Washington International Law Review
The George Washington International Law Review, founded in 1966, is edited and managed by students. In four annual issues, the International Law Review presents articles and essays on public and private international financial development, comparative law, and public international law. 

International Law in Domestic Courts
International Law in Domestic Courts, founded in 2007 by Oxford University Press, is an online service that reproduces and provides commentary on judicial decisions involving international law issues from around the world. Rapporteurs identify and propose the cases, then write scholarly commentaries (akin to case notes) on the cases accepted for inclusion in the database.  GW is the exclusive rapporteur for the United States, joining more than 70 rapporteurs from other countries.

GEORGETOWN LAW offers one of the largest transnational legal education programs in the world.  In addition to the array of courses dealing with transnational, international, and comparative law, Georgetown offers a wide variety of opportunities to study or work abroad. 

Center for Transnational Legal Studies: In Fall 2008, Georgetown inaugurated the new London-based Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS).  Georgetown students study alongside classmates drawn from over a dozen select partner schools, located in almost as many countries around the globe. A truly transnational faculty, drawn from many of the same schools, offers a curriculum specifically designed for those students intent on transnational careers. With this diversity of perspectives, and no “host” school or jurisdiction, students have a unique, semester-long opportunity to study transnational legal topics in a truly transnational setting.

Semester Study Abroad:  As an alternative to the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, J.D. students at Georgetown may choose to study abroad for a semester at one of a number of outstanding foreign law schools including:  Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Melbourne Law School in Australia; Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing, China; Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany; Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel; National Law School in Bangalore, India; the University of Leiden in The Netherlands; National University of Singapore Law School; and ESADE Law School in Barcelona, Spain.

Summer Program in London:  Georgetown also offers an exciting opportunity to study law in London during the summer.  This 4 ½ week program offers courses taught by distinguished instructors from the United States and abroad.  The program includes a speaker series and organized visits to legal landmarks such as the Royal Courts of Justice, the Central Criminal Court, the British Parliament and the Inns of Court.

International Internship Program:  Another opportunity available to many J.D. students, especially during the summer after their first year of studies, is the International Internship Program.  Opportunities with international organizations, non-governmental bodies, law firms, and businesses are available in over 35 countries.  In recent years, more than 100 students have been placed in a variety of private and public sector internships around the world.

Georgetown offers a vast array of additional transnational opportunities.  For more information, please see visit the Office of Transnational Programs website at www.law.georgetown.edu/otp.

“Interaction with classmates from Germany, Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Malawi, and Angola was a significant part of my learning experience at the University of Cape Town. I found that people who live thousands of miles away share the same concerns—poverty, climate change, and HIV/AIDS. Our planet is but a small community; no matter one’s race, creed, or nationality, we are all inextricably tied together.”
—Penn State Law student Michelle Boldon ’10, on her exchange experience

Penn State Law students have access to international experiences, institutions, and perspectives every day. Whether they videoconference with Australian classmates, study side by side with LL.M. students from around the globe, pursue joint degrees with the School of International Affairs, or serve as research assistants for top international faculty, Penn State Law students are connected to the experiences that matter.

This year at Penn State Law

• The Hon. Samuel A. Alito Jr., associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is the Distinguished Guest Jurist in the Capitals of Europe Summer Program. Justice Alito is teaching a course titled “Current Issues in Constitutional Interpretation.” 
  
  
• Penn State’s Summer Program in Arbitration with the McGill Law Faculty was named a recognized course provider by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Geared toward U.S. and Canadian law students and taught in Montreal, the program features classes in consumer, investment, ICC, and ICSID arbitration.
  
  
• The Penn State School of International Affairs joined the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. Penn State Law students may take international affairs electives; pursue joint or concurrent law and international affairs degrees; or create their own joint degree program from the Penn State graduate curriculum.
  
  
• Students may participate in the semester-long International Justice Externship Program in the Hague with Professor Dermot Groome, lead prosecutor in the case against Jovica Stanisic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
  
  
• Penn State Law students participated in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria and the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

To learn more about education abroad at Penn State Law, including exchange programs with the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht Faculty of Law, and the Yeditepe University Faculty of Law, visit www.law.psu.edu.

Santa Clara University School of Law

Introduction

By its nature, law is a global field. The international law program at Santa Clara Law School includes a broad offering of courses and the support of our Center for Global Law & Policy, which hosts international scholars and speakers throughout the year. Santa Clara Law offers countless opportunities for faculty and students to examine, experience, and contribute to international law, establishing a platform for scholarly exchange. We accomplish an important goal of facilitating academic and experiential learning through extensive overseas academic and externship opportunities. 

Faculty and Curriculum

Santa Clara Law's distinguished faculty includes nationally and internationally recognized scholars of international law. Renowned for their accessibility and commitment to the development and growth of their students, the Santa Clara Law international law faculty members engage in research and scholarship on issues ranging from transnational crime, foreign relations and policy, and humanitarian law, to international business, trade and intellectual property laws.
 
We offer a comprehensive curriculum at Santa Clara and in our overseas programs on a range of current and relevant topics in international law.
 
Study Abroad Opportunities

Recognizing that it is critical for students to observe the social, economic, cultural and political forces that impact law in societies different from our own, Santa Clara Law has nurtured numerous opportunities for students to study abroad. Our study abroad programs are unique in that we retain foreign faculty to teach in their areas of expertise.  Students may choose either to study overseas for the summer, or for an entire semester.

Santa Clara Law offers more summer study abroad programs in more locations than any other law school in the country. Our thirteen programs span Asia, Europe, Australia and Central America. Our summer abroad programs are unique in that they are designed as true academic and field-work immersion experiences.  Taught by local faculty who are experts in their fields, our courses track subjects of interest within the region, while being integrated into an overall curriculum that prepares a student for practice in a global economy.

Santa Clara students may also choose to spend a semester studying law at some of the finest universities in Europe and Asia. Enhancing the experience of our law students on the Santa Clara campus, Santa Clara Law routinely hosts a large number of foreign students for one or two semesters of study.

Experiential Learning Opportunities

Students learn about the functioning of lawyers in an international legal environment through practical experience in international courts or tribunals (international judicial externships), or law offices, government entities, NGOs, and commercial entities (international non-judicial externships) outside of the United States.  Students may either complete an externship overseas during the summer, or for the duration of an entire semester. 

Most of our summer abroad programs are followed by an optional externship opportunity in one of twenty different countries across the globe.  Students complete summer externships at organizations such as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Amnesty International.  We also place summer externs in a wide variety of law firms in Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore and other commercially gateways around the world. 

Students are encouraged to gain experience overseas in semester-long judicial externships at the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, International Court of Justice, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Students are also encouraged to learn about the functioning of lawyers in an international legal environment through practical experience in foreign law offices, at foreign government entities, NGOs, and foreign business entities outside of the United States.

In addition, law students participate in what many describe as the most intense experience of their law school career - an immersion trip to El Salvador to study human rights.

International Humanitarian Law Workshop

Presented in conjunction with the International Committee for the Red Cross, Santa Clara offers an annual workshop on International Humanitarian Law. This workshop is a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises that guide U.S. law students from around the country through an intensive workshop on international humanitarian law. The workshop is led by legal professionals from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Department of Justice, the JAG Corps, and members of the Santa Clara faculty.

Introduction

In keeping with the rapid growth of global interdependence and the changing nature of legal practice, the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law has undergone tremendous expansion in recent years. The program is founded on the premise that law is a living body of rules and norms that both reflects and shapes the behavior of people, governments, and organizations worldwide. At Stanford, we believe world-class legal scholarship and real-world developments must go hand in hand.

Our international law program blends the benefits of an accessible, dedicated intellectual community with the formidable resources of Stanford University, including interdisciplinary programs and research centers focused on a wide range of international issues. In addition to addressing the foundations of the international legal order, our comprehensive curriculum explores dramatic recent changes in the transnational business environment, the evolving global lawmaking and international judicial process, and questions of global justice. Our faculty members have produced cutting-edge research in a broad array of fields, including international trade, transnational crime, refugees, international criminal tribunals, human rights, comparative law, the rule of law, presidential powers in the struggle against terrorism, and the use of force. They bring in-depth experience to their groundbreaking, policy-shaping research and are deeply committed to mentoring students. And dozens of Stanford Law events every year bring together faculty, students, graduate fellows, lawyers, policymakers, leaders of NGOs, transnational corporations, and many others to explore key issues in international legal practice.

Because we believe that international legal education does not stop at the border's edge, the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law offers our students an impressive mix of interdisciplinary, internship, and overseas study opportunities.

Interdisciplinary programs

Stanford Law School is deeply committed to interdisciplinary study. The law school’s recent transition to the quarter calendar has deepened the law school’s integration into the vast array of international programs and courses available throughout Stanford University. A number of law school faculty either offer courses open to both law students and students from other schools and departments or team-teach interdisciplinary courses with colleagues from outside the law school. We offer connections to a wide variety of academic centers and programs both within the law school and in the broader university that cross disciplinary lines and bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/scicn

Rule of Law Program
www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/rolp

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
http://pesd.stanford.edu

Program on Global Justice
http://globaljustice.stanford.edu

Program on Human Rights
http://cddrl.stanford.edu/research/program_on_human_rights

Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
http://cddrl.stanford.edu

Center for International Security and Cooperation
http://cisac.stanford.edu

Woods Institute for the Environment
http://woods.stanford.edu

In addition, Stanford encourages joint degrees, including a broad array of JD/PhD programs and a number of JD/MA degree programs in such fields as International Policy Studies, Public Policy, or area studies specialties like African Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, or Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Externship and Internship Programs

During the academic year Stanford students may participate in quarter-long externships at U.S. Government foreign affairs agencies in Washington, D.C., and in international and non-governmental organizations abroad for academic credit under the direction of law school faculty members. In recent years, Stanford students have participated in full-time externships at such organizations as the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the American Embassy in The Hague, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Defense.

Students have also participated in summer internships with dozens of governmental, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental organizations around the world, such as the World Trade Organization, the Asian Development Bank, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the World Bank, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Department of Justice/Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training, the U.S. Department of Justice/Office of International Affairs, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Court of International Trade, Transparency International, The Asia Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia, the International Crisis Group, the Supreme Court of Israel, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in India, Human Rights Watch, the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit in South Africa, the Legal Services Center, Ghana, and CARE.

Study Abroad

Today, virtually all Stanford Law School graduates will engage with foreign legal systems and will work with lawyers and clients from other countries in their practices and post-graduate work. That is why learning about foreign legal systems is an increasingly important aspect of legal education at Stanford. Stanford Law’s Foreign Legal Study Program enables Stanford Law students to gain familiarity with foreign legal systems by studying at law schools abroad with which Stanford Law has established foreign study arrangements. Students also may petition to study at a foreign law school of their own choosing.

Clinical

Stanford Law offers clinical and other applied international educational opportunities.  Through a partnership with the University of Cape Town law school, our students travel to South Africa for a quarter to participate in an international human rights and development clinical program.  The program includes a one-week intensive course at SLS prior to departure, followed by an in-country portion of the program, which lasts the duration of a quarter.  Students this year worked directly on a range of human rights and refugee issues.

Other opportunities for international work and study include Stanford Law School’s Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP), under which students supervised by Stanford Law faculty are developing and implementing innovative legal curricula on the laws of Afghanistan to help train Afghanistan’s future lawyers and leaders. The goal is to produce lawyers equipped to rebuild the country’s institutions after two decades of conflict and to promote public understanding of formal law in a country where the rule of law remains weak.

Stetson University College of Law

International Cooperation: Protecting Florida Wetlands

On Feb. 18, Stetson University College of Law became the first law school in the world to sign a memorandum of cooperation with the Ramsar Secretariat, assisting the international group that works to protect wetlands.

Stetson Law Dean Darby Dickerson signed a historic agreement with Ramsar Secretary General Anada Tiega on Stetson Law’s Gulfport campus at 1401 61st St. S.

Later in the day, Stetson Law professor Royal Gardner and law students attended a celebration with a Ramsar delegation at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, Fla. Two recent Stetson Law graduates worked with the National Audubon Society on the application for the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary to be designated as a Wetland of International Importance, which was awarded in October 2009 by Ramsar. Wilderness artist Clyde Butcher and a National Audubon Society representative attended the invitation-only celebration in Naples.

"We are very proud that our students played an important role in the Ramsar designation of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, one of Florida’s great natural resources," said Gardner, who directs Stetson’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy. "Stetson's agreement with the Ramsar Secretariat ensures that we can continue to collaborate on projects to protect wetlands throughout the world."

Stetson has actively participated in Ramsar activities and was the first law school to become a member of the U.S. National Ramsar Committee, an organization that supports wetland conservation efforts. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands has named more than 1,800 wetlands of international importance worldwide, including 29 sites in the U.S. Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is the largest remaining stand of virgin bald cypress in North America.

Visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/tmpl/news/article.aspx?id=9152 to access photos.

Sydney Law School

Sydney Law School is an acknowledged leader in international law teaching and research.  The Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) is a major centre of research, teaching and practice in international law in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The Centre engages in research across diverse fields of international and global law spanning public international law, private international law and transnational and comparative law. It promotes public debate on international legal issues, advises governments and non-government organisations, and in recent years has worked in development programs in Nepal, Iraq and the Philippines.

Exchange Links

The University of Sydney has one of the largest Study abroad and Student exchange programs in Australia. Each year more than one thousand students come to or go from the University through one of our established international networks. With the country's broadest range of study options, and an extensive list of international partners, the University of Sydney provides excellent opportunities for both incoming and outgoing students to internationalise their studies.

The Sydney Law School offers an extensive range of student exchange programs with universities throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The Law School offers a faculty-specific exchange, university-wide exchange or study abroad program. Faculty-specific exchange programs are available to students of Sydney Law School. Sydney Law School has exclusive exchange agreements with sixteen Law Schools in Europe, North America and Asia. University-wide exchange programs offer an additional range of Law Schools and the program is administered by the University’s International Office.

Faculty-Specific Exchange Partner Universities:

University-wide Exchange Partner Universities:

Social Justice Program

The Sydney Law School Social Justice Program provides an important opportunity for students to gain practical legal experience and provide vital services to disadvantaged members of our community. It helps expose students to real-world cases, enable them to apply knowledge gained in the classroom, and develop practical skills such as researching, case-writing, and client interviewing. Opportunities are created by partnering with community legal centres and other organisations offering legal advice and representation to special interest groups. Students experience first-hand the impact of a pro-bono service on the wider community.

A number of established community legal organisations are partnered with Sydney Law School. These include:

Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS)

RACS is involved in a variety of legal work on behalf of refugees, including applications for protection visas, hearings at the Refugee Review Tribunal and Department of Immigration and Citizenship.

Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH)

PILCH was established in NSW to identify areas of public interest where legal assistance may be provided by private lawyers; to match eligible clients with private lawyers prepared to act on a pro bono or other basis and to facilitate co-operation between private and public interest lawyers on public interest issues. PILCH has a diverse membership and support base including private law firms, barristers, the Bar Association, the Law Society, community legal centres, and government lawyers.

Sydney Law School has run Australia’s first externship program, the External Placement Program (EPP), since 1996. A highly successful clinical offering, it has been the blueprint for the numerous Australian externship programs that have followed. In this unit of study students gain the opportunity to work for up to one day per week during the semester in a 'public interest' placement site. In addition, students attend fortnightly seminars which are designed to promote discussion and reflection on a range of issues that may arise during the course of the placement as well as seminar presentations on matters relevant to public interest externships. The unit has a public interest focus which is reflected in the selection of placement sites.

Internship Opportunities

The Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) offers two internship positions to Sydney Law School students in each semester of the academic year. Interns must be available to work one day per week for the duration of one semester. Interns are involved in the full range of the Centre’s activities, including international law research, drafting legal opinions, policy submissions to parliamentary committees and law reform bodies, hosting public seminars, and the production of the Australian International Law Journal. There are also some administrative duties. Interns report to the Centre Director and will work closely with the Director and other Associates of the Centre.

Each year the Australian International Law Journal recruits Sydney Law School student volunteers to serve as Student Editors on the Journal. The Journal is an annual, peer-reviewed journal which publishes in all areas of public and private international law. It is a joint publication of the International Law Association (Australian Branch) and SCIL. Subscribers include major international and Australian universities, international organisations, governments and international law practitioners. Student editors are involved in all aspects of production, including soliciting articles, sending out articles for peer review, editing, style-guiding, cite-checking and proofreading. There are also opportunities to write and publish case notes on important recent international law decisions.

The Sydney Law School implements a Careers and Employment website to keep students up to date with the latest information in relation to internship opportunities. The Law School also participates in the Summer Clerkship Scheme and Graduate Employment Program, one of the largest paid internship initiatives for law students in Australia.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Offers Several Opportunities for International Study

Imagine spending your summer on the French Riviera or exploring the most beautiful city in China while earning academic credit at the same time!  Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego has assembled several attractive study abroad programs for law students that span the globe, from Canada to France to Eastern Europe to China. 

Summer Study in Hangzhou, China

In cooperation with one of the most prestigious universities in China, the Zhejiang University Guanghua College of Law, Thomas Jefferson hosts an annual three-week Summer Study Abroad Program in Hangzhou, China.  In 2009, 62 students in all participated, including 39 American students and 23 Asian students.

Zhejiang University Guanghua College of Law is centrally located in Hangzhou, which Italian traveler Marco Polo described as "the most beautiful and luxurious city in the world."  Hangzhou is full of history, art and tourist attractions, such as the famous West Lake, and offers an ideal environment for learning international and comparative law. 

The China Program is designed to encourage students to experience international law in an international setting, to exchange ideas with students from a different land, and to explore cultural differences that influence international business and legal transactions.  Students who participate in the three-week, four-credit China program can return early enough to attend summer classes at Thomas Jefferson or participate in the law school’s Nice Summer Study Program.

In 2010, the China Program’s distinguished guest lecturers are Richard J. Goldstone, the former South African Constitutional Court Justice and prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals of the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and Justice Jiang Huiling of the Beijing Supreme Court.
The courses offered during the 2010 China Program are:

• International Business Transactions
• Comparative Biotechnology Law
• International Legal Aspects of Doing Business in China
• WTO and China
• Chinese Legal System and its Reforms

Most courses are taught by Thomas Jefferson School of Law professors with relevant professional experience in these subject areas.  Three Chinese professors will team-teach the course on the Chinese Legal System this summer.

Summer Study in Nice, France

For those students who prefer a more traditional European educational experience, Thomas Jefferson School of Law offers a four-week Study Abroad Program in Nice, France, in cooperation with La Faculte de Droit de l'Universite de Nice.  Sixty-six students attended the Nice program in 2009, 55 of them from American law schools.

The Nice Law School is centrally located in the heart of the French Riviera and is a truly international atmosphere in which American students can study international law together with students from Europe and other parts of the world.  Nice is a city both beautiful and rich in European culture and history. 

Supreme Court justices from the U.S. and other countries are frequent members of the Nice faculty.  In addition to taking two courses for four units, students get to spend a day in French court, attend special lectures and events, and still have plenty of time for sightseeing trips.

The 2010 distinguished guest lecturers include Judge Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe and Judge Jacqueline de Guillenchmidt of the French Constitutional Council (French Supreme Court), and Judge Theodor Meron of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

This summer’s course schedule, all taught by Thomas Jefferson professors, includes:

• International Human Rights
• Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law
• Comparative Health Law and Bioethics
• Comparative Antitrust Laws

The China and Nice summer programs are open to students in good standing at all ABA accredited law schools as well as to graduates of those schools.  Continuing Legal Education credit may be available for certain courses successfully completed by licensed U.S. attorneys who participate.

Four Visitor Exchange Programs

In addition to the two summer study programs, Thomas Jefferson School of Law offers four special foreign study exchange opportunities for its students only:

• Students interested in an international practice that focuses on the civil law countries of Continental Europe and Quebec, Canada, have the opportunity to spend a semester at the Queen’s Faculty of Law, one of Canada’s finest law schools located in Kingston, Ontario.
• Students fluent in French and interested in a Continental law practice may spend a summer or semester studying at the University of Burgundy School of Law in Dijon, France.
• Students interested in a truly unique summer excursion can study for a summer at the University of Pristina in Pristina, Kosovo.
• Students also may student abroad at Far Eastern National University (FENU) in Vladivostok, Russia.

The California International Law Center at King Hall (http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/cilc/), University of California, Davis, School of Law, provides students with comprehensive international, transnational, and comparative law training.  Complementing the cutting-edge scholarship of CILC’s Faculty Council, as well as CILC events and research, are a variety of programs are available to students. 

Clinics, Exchanges, Externships & Fellowships

The California International Law Center at King Hall, through affiliated law school clinical programs, offers students the opportunity to learn the practice of promoting human rights.  Affiliated clinics include:

• Civil Rights Clinic
• Family Protection & Legal Assistance Clinic
• Immigration Law Clinic
• Prison Law Clinic 

CILC offers vibrant co-curricular opportunities to students through membership in affiliated student-run organizations, publications, and moot court programs.  More details on these clinics and programs are available on our website, at http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/centers/cilc/affiliates.html.

Also affiliated with CILC is the law school’s  exchange program.  The program allows students to spend a semester studying at one of our partner law schools:

• China University of Political Science & Law, Beijing
• University College Dublin, Ireland
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Information on these programs is available at http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/prospective/international-program/exchange-programs.html

New to this year is the UCDC Law Program.  This semester-long externship in Washington, D.C., combines a weekly seminar with a full-time field placement.  Students with an international interest are encouraged to seek externships with appropriate governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations.   CILC assists students find such placements.  Further information is available on the web athttp://www.law.ucdavis.edu/academics-clinicals/ucdc-overview.html.

CILC is also pleased to host the University of California Human Rights Fellowship Competition for the UC Davis campus.  This year, CILC awarded two $4,500 fellowships to enable current students to do human rights field work during their summers.  The inaugural recipients are: Elica Vafaie ’11, who will be working with the Center for Constitutional Rights on its Guantánamo docket, and Daniel Marsh ’12, who will provide justice services in rural areas of Sierra Leone with Timap for Justice.  For details on this program, see http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/centers/cilc/human-rights-fellowship.html.

Student Research Opportunities

Students at King Hall are encouraged to engage with CILC’s research, which this year was dedicated to the wartorn Darfur region of Sudan.  Students enrolled in the International Human Rights & Transitional Justice course had the opportunity to assist CILC with its scholarly partnership with the D.C.-based Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.  They researched global approaches to transitional justice, guided by the RFK Center’s 2007 Laureate Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, a Darfuri physician who has been working to establish a framework for peace and reconciliation in that area, as well as many other experts in the area.  More information on this project may be found athttp://www.law.ucdavis.edu/centers/cilc/darfur.html.

Event Highlights

Throughout the academic year, CILC sponsors events designed to enrich student understanding of international legal issues.  Among the prominent advocates and scholars whom CILC hosted this year:

• Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, who delivered an International Women’s Day Address on gender violence and international law. 
• Jess Bravin, the U.S. Supreme Court and counterterrorism correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, who previewed the Court’s term.
• Krishanti Dharmaraj, former founding Executive Director of Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights (WILD for Human Rights), who, along with several members of CILC's faculty council, presented a retrospective in honor of CEDAW’s 30th anniversary.
• Mary D. Nichols, Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, who spoke on California's role in the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
• Dr. Clayborne Carson, Professor of History and founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, and the editor of the King papers, who spoke from an international perspective about Dr. King, our law school’s namesake.

Professionalism, Skills, and Clinics at the University of Illinois College of Law: An Overview
By Nina Tarr, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law*

The University of Illinois College of Law provides students with a wide range of opportunities to develop into professionals who understand the theory and the skills associated with applying their legal training to the marketplace.  We have had scholars from around the world, most recently from Japan, visit the law school to research the history and methodologies associated with clinical education and experiential learning.  Two of the students from the College of Law won the ABA National Client Counseling Competition and went on to place third in the International Competition where they had an opportunity to discover how lawyers, solicitors, barristers, and legal advocates are trained differently throughout the world. 

In the first year of law school, the students take a course in legal research and writing that includes an introduction to client interviewing and oral and written advocacy.  Many of our students participate in an “externship” program during their first summer after law school in which they work in law related jobs for academic credit.    The students have an opportunity to structure their externship so that they explore the application of the law in a wide range of legal settings, local, national and even international.  Examples of placements would be prosecutors and public defenders’ offices, state agencies, judges’ chambers, and policy think tanks. The students are required to write journals on their experiences to complete the learning cycle.

Beginning in the second year of law school, students may participate in “simulations” where they learn skills and professional ethics by reading, watching, role playing, and reflection.  Some of these simulations are integrated into doctrinal courses—such as a commercial course in which the students are presented with a complex, hypothetical problem that requires them to work in groups to produce legal solutions.  Others are free standing “experiential” courses that focus on a portion of the work lawyers do such as pre-trial interviewing, counseling, case planning, drafting, motion practice and negotiations.  We have an extensive trial advocacy program that makes use of local lawyers and judges who watch students engage in portions of mock trials.  Recently, we have added a simulation course on mediation skills.  The advantage of the simulations is the professor can control the challenges the students face to insure that the theories associated with the practice are well illustrated and the breadth of the skills is fully challenged.

Second and third year law students may also participate in courses that involve individuals or organizations with  actual legal problems.  We refer to these as our “clinics” and they are parallel to the practical training that is provided to other professionals like doctors, teachers, veterinarians, etc.  In our clinics, students function as lawyers or legal professionals and they are closely supervised by faculty and adjuncts to insure that the clients get the highest level of service and that the students continue to develop.  These programs are extraordinarily rich learning opportunities and very intense because of the complexity of working with clients  and their problems. . Students report that participation in the clinics is one of the most meaningful experiences they have in law school because it is where they finally see how their legal training, which can otherwise seem quite fragmented, comes together.

Many of Clinics provide assistance to populations that would not otherwise be served so they are a vehicle for the College of Law to engage in public service.  Some examples of our clinics are a Civil Litigation clinic that provides free legal services to low income individuals, a Domestic Violence Clinic that represents victims of domestic abuse, an International Human Rights Clinic that helps NGOs around the world solve local legal problems, a Family Advocacy Clinic that helps parents who are accused of neglecting or abusing their children, a Federal Civil Rights Clinic that represents pro-se prisoners who allege wrongful treatment during incarceration, and a Conflict Resolution Clinic that mediates disputes for families, juveniles, and pro-se litigants in small claims.  The clinics provide a bridge between the College of Law, the community, alumni, and the practicing bar.

The primary mission of our clinic and skills courses is to help prepare the students for their future as thoughtful, skilled professionals.  The opportunities are pervasive across the curriculum and an integral part of law student’s education at the University of Illinois College of Law.

One of the longest-running European programs sponsored by an American law school celebrates its 35th anniversary this July when Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy returns to Salzburg, Austria, to teach in Pacific McGeorge’s Summer International Legal Studies Program.

Justice Kennedy, a member of the Pacific McGeorge faculty for 45 years, has taught in the summer program since 1989, the year after he ascended to the high court bench. Justice Kennedy had served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law on the Sacramento law school’s main campus from 1965 to 1988. Justice Kennedy teaches Fundamental Rights in Europe and the United States each year in the program with Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, professor of European and Human Rights Law at Oxford University School of Law in London.

The Pacific McGeorge Salzburg program also annually offers a course titled, the International Business Lawyer. Two prominent international attorneys, Fernando Pombo Garcia of Gomez-Acebo & Pombo in Madrid, and Joseph Smallhoover, the managing partner of the Paris office of Bryan Cave LLP, co-teach the course.

In addition, Pacific McGeorge Professor Linda Carter will teach International Criminal Law. The director of Pacific McGeorge’s Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure, she has lectured widely on issues of genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia and has served as a visiting professional in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court. Since 2003, she has also served as a consultant and co-director of the Brandeis Institute for International Judges, which brings together judges from international tribunals to discuss current issues.

The Salzburg Summer Program will be held from July 3-24, 2010. Open to both American and foreign law students, it attracts an enrollment of more than 100 persons this year.

Pacific McGeorge will again offer a bilingual Inter-American Summer Program in Guatemala, a program inaugurated with much success last summer. The program runs from May 22 to June 12 in Antigua, Guatemala, with the option of an eight-week internship in that country with a non-governmental organization or an NGO in California that requires proficiency in Spanish.

Pacific McGeorge Professor Raquel Aldana is the founder and director of the program. A former Fulbright Scholar at the Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City, she will teach Comparative Latin American Law: The Guatemala Case Study. This course will be taught in Spanish, as will Commercial Law for Foreign Investors in Guatemala, taught by Professor Enrique Fernando Sanchez Usera of Rafael Landivar University. 

Students without Spanish fluency will participate in a Spanish language immersion program and will take International Trade Law and Development, in English, taught by Pacific McGeorge Professor Marjorie Florestal, a former Fulbright Scholar and well-known authority on the impact of globalization on developing countries.

Most students choose the externship component of the program to take advantage of the opportunity to assist in the practice of law in a foreign country. Externship placements in Guatemala are available with organizations such as: Center for Environment and Social Legal Action, Guatemalan Exporters Association, Rigoberta Mechu Foundation, and National Roundtable of Immigrant Groups of Guatemala.

For students who wish to return to the United States for the summer, the externship placement program also includes a select group of organizations that deal with immigrant populations in California. The growth of the Pacific McGeorge summer bilingual program parallels the law school’s expansion of its year-round Immigration Law Clinic that encompasses major outreach efforts to immigrants in the Sacramento area. Last fall, Professor Aldana organized and directed a Citizenship Fair that aided nearly 300 persons on the path to American citizenship. This spring, the school also hosted a Guatemalan Consulate Mobile that more than 100 Guatemalan nationals attended for pro bono legal services.

Also this summer, Pacific McGeorge Professor John Sprankling will teach International Environmental Law at the St. Petersburg Law Institute. This program is an ongoing collaboration between Pacific McGeorge, University of Arkansas School of Law, Cleveland Marshall College of Law, the St. Petersburg State University Law Faculty, and the Novgorod State University Law Faculty.

In addition, Pacific McGeorge has exchange agreements with law schools in a number of countries, which provide opportunities for students to study at universities in Europe, South America, Asia, and soon Africa, while earning credit toward their degree at Pacific McGeorge. Moving beyond the classroom, students have opportunities for internships dealing with international issues. These include with federal agencies in Washington, DC; with non-governmental organizations in various domestic and international locations; and with such specialized organizations as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

For students seeking advanced educational opportunities in the international area, Pacific McGeorge offers international graduate law programs.  For nearly thirty years, the LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice at Pacific McGeorge has prepared law graduates from the United States and abroad to practice in the burgeoning field of international business law.  An experiential component in the form of an internship allows degree candidates to work for ten weeks with an international law firm in one of nearly 40 countries.  An alternate track to this LL.M. allows students to receive a joint degree with the University of Salzburg.

Taking advantage of its faculty expertise, Pacific McGeorge offers one of the few graduate law programs in International Water Resources in the world. Students can receive an LL.M. or a J.S.D. in this increasingly important field.

The newest graduate law program at Pacific McGeorge is the LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching.  This program grew out of a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development under which Pacific McGeorge engaged in training Chinese law professors on the development and teaching of experiential law courses.  It has since included future law professors from Ukraine and other countries, and it is open to law teachers from around the world.

These programs bring lawyers from more than 20 countries per semester to take classes alongside American J.D. students.  Their presence adds diversity to the law school campus, and the perspectives that they provide from their own legal systems adds a new dimension to the classroom atmosphere.

University of Tulsa College of Law

The University of Tulsa College of Law

The University of Tulsa College of Law recognizes 21st century lawyers will need a working knowledge of international and comparative law.  Through our study abroad programs, students learn from local legal experts and gain hands-on, internship experience in foreign legal systems. TU College of Law operates its own summer programs in Dublin, Ireland and Geneva, Switzerland, and also participates through a consortium with other law schools in summer programs in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Tianjin, China, as well as a fall semester program in London, England with internship opportunities. 

Institute in European and International Law
Dublin, Ireland
June 5-July 3, 2010

TU’s Dublin program is the only ABA approved study abroad program to offer four-week internships with Irish barristers in government and non-profit agencies (including the Irish Attorney General’s Office and the Irish Chief State Solicitor’s Office) and in private practice. Now in its twelfth year of operation, the program also offers a choice of courses for up to 6 credits per student with distinguished Irish and American faculty in:

• International Intellectual Property
• European Union Law
• European Community Competition Law
• International Trade Regulation
• International Children’s Rights
• International and Comparative Sports Law

In addition to working inside the Irish legal system, students will have the opportunity to meet with Irish judges and visit a number of Irish legal institutions. 

Institute in Indigenous Peoples and International Law
Geneva, Switzerland
July 3-July 31, 2010

TU College of Law’s Geneva Institute is the first and only law school summer program to focus on the emerging area of international indigenous people’s law.  The first two-week session focuses on courses offered by instructors with the Indigenous Rights section on the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and other internationally distinguished professors focusing on the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its impact on the development of U.S. federal and tribal law, as well as the situation of indigenous peoples in other countries. The second two-week session focuses on courses in specialized fields that intersect with the various international organizations headquartered in Geneva and the surrounding region.  This year, students will also have the opportunity to observe the work of the Expert Mechanism, meeting in Geneva simultaneously, and experience field trips to the U.N., the Red Cross, and the WTO, in addition to courses offered by distinguished international faculty in the following fields:

• Comparative & International Indigenous Peoples Law
• Selected Topics in Indian and Indigenous Peoples Law: Lands and Territories
• Law and Culture
• International Business Transactions: The International Economic Rules of GATT/WTO
• Economic and Social Human Rights

For additional information about The University of Tulsa College of Law study abroad programs, visit our website at www.law.utulsa.edu/study-abroad  or contact:

Marianne Blair
Director of Study Abroad
918-631-2454  
marianne-blair@utulsa.edu

Lynn Miller
Administrator of Study Abroad Programs
918-631-5038
lynn-miller@utulsa.edu

Vermont Law School’s exchange programs with Cambridge, McGill, Trento, Cergy-Pontoise, and Seville offer students multiple study abroad opportunities. 

DUAL DEGREE OPTIONS
We offer dual degree options with several partner institutions: 

University of Cambridge:
Students in this dual degree program pursue their academic work at Cambridge in the Department of Land Economy, a specialized department devoted to the multidisciplinary study of land, property, the environment, and resource management. The department’s primary disciplines are law and economics, with an emphasis on land and environmental protection.

• JD/MPhil in Environmental Policy
• JD/MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration
• JD/MPhil in Real Estate Finance

University of Cergy-Pontoise: Vermont Law students have several dual degree options with this renowned French law school. For all the master’s degrees listed below, students who participate are fluent in French, as they are in classes together with French students.

• JD/Master’s I
• A Vermont Law graduate of this program took and passed the Paris Bar exam last year and was hired by Baker & McKenzie in Paris.  She is fluent in English, French, and Japanese.
• A Vermont Law student currently in this program recently accepted a consultancy contract with the OECD in Paris.

• JD/Master’s II-DJCE in French Business Organization  
• Includes two internships—stages—at Paris law firms.
• A Vermont Law student about to graduate with this dual degree has accepted a position with the international arbitration firm of Lazareff LeBars in Paris.
• Both last year and this, Vermont Law students at Cergy served on the Cergy team in the Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot competition.

• JD/LLM in French and European Law  
• This dual degree offers a unique national degree in French and European Union Law taught in English.

University of Seville:

• JD/Master in Spanish Constitutional Law
• Students fluent in Spanish undertake this dual degree program at Seville under the guidance of Professor Ruth Rubio Marin, who holds appointments at the European University Institute and the University of Seville.

SEMESTER ABROAD OPTIONS
Another popular choice among students is to spend a full semester of study at one the following partners:

• McGill University, Canada
• University of Trento, Italy
• University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
• University of Seville, Spain

SEMINARS THAT INCLUDE STUDY ABROAD
Vermont Law School also offers students an introduction to international and comparative law concepts and the opportunity for a week-long segment of study at a foreign law school through two intensive courses:

Comparative U.S.-China Environmental Law: This seminar includes an optional one-credit segment in China, where students observe environmental conditions firsthand and attend lectures and meetings with leading Chinese environmental scholars and activists.

European Union Law: Cotaught by a professor from the University of Trento and a Vermont Law professor, this seminar includes a visit to Trento for additional lectures and discussions.

Spanish Constitutional Law: Cotaught by a professor from the University of Seville and a Vermont Law professor, this seminar includes a visit to Seville for additional lectures and discussions.

Comparative Environmental Law Research Seminar: Students engage in joint research projects with law students in China. The course includes a visit to China where participating Vermont Law students present their papers together with their Chinese colleagues.  Several of these papers have been published in journals such as the Harvard Environmental Law Review and the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ABROAD
Vermont Law School spearheaded the academic recognition of experiential learning for its students, who work with mentors in law firms, businesses, government organizations, and NGOs. The International Semester-in-Practice provides opportunities in countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Ecuador, Madagascar, Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan, Kenya, and India.

Placements include the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) legal office in Rome; the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) office in Nairobi; TMI Associates, a leading Tokyo law firm; the Citizen Consumer and Civil Action Group in Chennai, India; offices of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL); and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania.