Description of Required Courses/Seminars

Required Courses Restricted to GLS Students

(1) GLS 1L Seminar. In their first year, the Global Law Scholars participate in a seminar that meets six to eight times. The first-year GLS seminar is non-credit.

(2) GLS 2L Seminar. During their second year, Global Law Scholars participate in a one-credit seminar which is graded on a pass/fail basis. This seminar meets approximately nine times. Because this seminar must be taken on a pass/fail basis, this credit does not count toward the 6 credit pass/fail maximum.

The content of the first- and second-year GLS seminars changes from year to year based on students' interests and the availability of speakers. Generally, the first-year seminar focuses on comparative law, while the second-year seminar involves faculty and visitor presentations on topics of interest in international and transnational law. Additional programs and talks will be scheduled throughout the year; in particular, we bring in speakers, including alumni, to talk about their international and transnational legal practices. Global Law Scholars are encouraged to attend these when possible, but attendance is not required

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Required Courses Chosen From the General Curriculum

(3) International Law I (or an approved substitute) must be taken as the elective during the Spring Semester of students' first year; GLS students are assured admission into this elective.

Approved Alternative for International Law I (when offered)

Transnational Law

(4) International Law II (international economic law) or an approved substitute must be taken during students' second year.

Approved Alternative for International Law II (when offered)

International Trade Law
International Trade Law and Regulation
International Trade and the World Trade Organization

(5) International/Transnational/Comparative Law Writing Requirement Seminar. Students must complete their J.D. writing requirement in a seminar dealing with international, transnational, or comparative law.

Illustrative Courses (2007-08) Satisfying International/Transnational/Comparative Law Writing Requirement Seminar
Advanced Patent Law Seminar
Asian Law and Policy Studies Seminar
Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) Clinic
Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar
Comparative EU/US Antitrust Law Seminar
Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs Seminar
Developing Countries in the International Economic System Seminar
Environmental Research Workshop
Human Rights Advocacy Seminar: U.S. Immigration Policy, HIV/AIDs and Haiti
International Law Seminar: Use of Force and Conflict Resolution
International Legal Philosophy Seminar
International Migration and Development
International Trade Law and Regulation Seminar
International Trade Seminar: The WTO and Subsidies
International Women’s Human Rights Clinic
International Women’s Human Rights Seminar
Investor-State Disputed Settlement
Issues in Disarmament: Proliferation and Terrorism Seminar
Law and Policy of International Economic Relations Seminar
National and Global Health Law: O'Neill Colloquium
Nuclear Non-proliferation Law: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Philosophy of International Law Seminar
Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies: Advanced Research Seminar
Space Law Seminar
War and Peace Seminar: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance

(6) Comparative Law Requirement. Comparative Law or an approved substitute must be taken prior to graduation. To satisfy this requirement, a course or seminar must devote at least a third of its curriculum to examination of a non-U.S. legal system. (NB: If a student takes an approved comparative law J.D. writing requirement seminar, the student may satisfy both this requirement and the requirement described in (5), above, with that one course.)

Illustrative Courses (2007-08) Satisfying Comparative Law Requirement
Anti-Corruption Laws and Enforcement Mechanisms: An International Approach
Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar
Comparative International Taxation
Comparative Tax Law
Data Privacy in the United States and the European Union Seminar
French for Lawyers: A Study of the French Legal System and French Legal Terminology
Global and National Approaches to Reproductive Health and the Law
Harrison Institute for Public Law: Policy Clinic
International and Comparative Law on Women’s Human Rights
International Conflicts of Jurisdiction and the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law
Investment and Trade Laws in the Middle East
Japan/US Comparative Legal Study
Law and Foreign Investment in China
Legal Research in International and Comparative Law: Sources and Strategies
Property Law and Government Economic Policy: American Indians, the Balkans and the Americas

(7) Focus Elective. Students must enroll in a qualifying course or seminar (for two or more units) that focuses on international or transnational legal problems in a specific context. Students generally elect, but are not required, to take this course in their third year. (NB: This requirement has to be met independently of the requirements set forth above. Thus, for example, a student may not, in one course satisfy the “focus” elective requirement and the J.D writing requirement seminar described in (5), above.) Students are strongly encouraged to choose an elective that focuses in an area that they have not already explored in another course.

Illustrative Courses (2007-08) Satisfying “Focus” Elective
Advanced International Commercial Arbitration: Practice Seminar
Advanced Issues in International Human Rights Seminar
African Human Rights System Seminar
Alternative Approaches to International Law
Anti-Corruption Laws and Enforcement Mechanisms: An International Approach
Aviation Law
Conflicts of Laws: Choice of Law
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights
Contract Law Seminar: Franchising
Copyright Law: Advanced
Cross-Border Commercial Regulation: Aviation and Maritime Law
Cross-Border Transactions in Latin America
Developing and Financing Infrastructure Projects
Dispute Settlement in International Trade: Law, Policy and Procedure
Employment Discrimination: Domestic and International Perspectives
EU Tax Law
Foreign Investments Law and Policy
Foreign Relations Law
Global Commerce and Litigation
Global Health Law
Global Health Law: An Intensive, Problem-Based Exploration
Global Indirect Tax: The VAT
Global Pension Reforms and Issues: Responding to Aging Populations Worldwide
Global Securities Offerings
Health and Human Rights
Human Rights Advocacy Seminar
Human Rights at the Intersection of Trade and Corporate Responsibility
Immigration Law and Policy
Immunity under International Law
Intellectual Property in World Trade
International Banking in the United States
International Business Transactions
International Civil Litigation
International Commercial Arbitration
International Courts and Tribunals: An Introduction
International Criminal Law
International Criminal Tribunals
International Development Law
International Economic Crime and Social Rights
International Economic Crime and Corruption
International Human Rights
International Human Rights Law
International Legal Theory Colloquium
International Negotiations Seminar
International Project Finance
International Project Finance and Investment
International Trade and Development
International Trade Remedies and the WTO
International Trade, Investment, and Sustainable Development: Reconciling Open Markets and Environmental and Social Concerns
International Trafficking in Persons
Law and Development Seminar
Law and Measures Against International Terrorism
Law of 9/11 in War Crimes Prosecutions
Law of War Seminar
Litigation Practice in International Arbitration
Managing National Security
Managing Risk in the International Financial System
Maritime Law
Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO in 2008
National Security and the Law of the Sea
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
Pre-Negotiation Strategies for Cross-Border Transactions
Refugee Law and Policy
Restorative Justice in International Human Rights: A New Paradigm
Rule of Law and the Administration of Justice
Tax Treaties: A Practical Approach to Interpretation and Application
Trade and Integration in the Americas
Treaties and the Constitution: New Directions
U.S. and International Customs Law
U.S. Taxation of International Transactions

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Last revised April 2008 (MT)