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Preface
Some Thoughts on the Study of Law
Advanced Legal Research
Civil Procedure and Administrative Law
Clinical Law
Commercial & Real Estate Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law and Procedure
Disability Law
Environmental Law
Estates and Trusts Law
Health Care Law
Intellectual Property
International Law
Perspectives Courses
Property
Tax and Business Law
Torts
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INTERNATIONAL LAW
International Law is an important and ever-emerging area for law students and lawyers. More and more legal work is transnational in nature, involving international actors and activities.
The Basic Courses
International Business Transactions (Law 671). 3 hours. The course concentrates on developing transaction skills in an international context but applicable to all business settings, foreign and domestic: commercial analysis, deal structuring and documentation, with the laws and instruments of international commerce discussed as they are encountered. This course does not address regimes governing international trade, which are the subject of a separate course (International Trade - Law 666). It is recommended, though not required, that students have taken or take simultaneously Business Organizations (Law 645). Offered in the spring semester.
Public International Law (Law 710). 3 hours. This is an introductory survey course in the legal principles governing the conduct of nations with each other and with individuals. Contemporary problems are examined in light of those principles. This course does not address regimes governing international trade, which are the subject of a separate course (International Trade - Law 666). Offered in the fall semester.
Other and Related Courses
Admiralty (Law 687). 3 hours. Consideration is given to the development of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in the federal courts; to the need for substantive rules peculiar to maritime commerce and for specialized courts to interpret and apply them; and to the rights of injured maritime workers, marine insurance, collision, maritime liens, salvage, general average, and limitation of liability.
Conflict of Laws (Law 667). 3 hours. This is a course in private international law.
Immigration Law and Policy (Law 655). 3 hours. U.S. law regarding immigration and nationality, as well as the underlying policy, are discussed with reference to current developments and trends. International issues concerning population movement and refugees are also examined.
International Trade (Law 666). 3 hours. This course provides an introduction to the U.S. regulation of international trade, focusing on antidumping and countervailing duties laws, export and customs regulations, and surveying the structure and operations of the World Trade Organization, the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Offered in the spring semester.
International Taxation (Law 761). 2 or 3 hours. Offered in the spring semester.
International Law and Environment (Law 781). 2 hours.
Law in the United States (Law 686). 2 hours. This course is offered only to students whose initial legal training was outside the United States. It is required of all LL.M. students in the International Graduate Program.
Special Problems in International Law (Law 625). 2 or 3 hours. This course considers a variety of topics in international law. In the past three years the topics have included European Union, the peoples of Africa, international litigation and dispute resolution, and national security law.
Environmental Law Seminar (Protecting the Global Environment) (Law 763). 2 hours. This seminar explores a number of ways in which the world community has tried - with varying degrees of success - to protect the global environment. There are no prerequisites for this seminar, but preference in enrollment is given to students who have taken Environmental Law I, Environmental Law II, or both.
Students interested in international business law also should enroll in basic corporate, commercial, and tax classes. Enrolling in
Alternate Dispute Resolution (Law 705) may benefit students interested in conflicts that arise under international law or involving foreign actors, since many of those conflicts are resolved outside of traditional adjudication.
Three special programs also are valuable to potential international lawyers: participation on the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team and in the summer exchange of students and faculty in Fribourg, Switzerland and at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
With the Assistant Dean's approval, students can take and transfer up to 6 credit hours of graduate level work elsewhere on campus relevant to international studies (for Pass credit).
The Law School encourages students of International Law to join the International Law Society, a student group interested in events in the world community. |