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Required Courses Restricted to GLS Students
- GLS 1L Seminar. In their first year, the Global Law Scholars participate in a year-long non-credit seminar that meets five to seven times a semester. Generally, this seminar aims to acquaint incoming GLS participants with the wide variety of practice areas in international and transnational law through faculty and visitor presentations. The specific content changes from year to year based on students' interests and the availability of speakers.
- GLS 2L Seminar. During their second year, Global Law Scholars also participate in a year-long seminar, for which they earn one credit each semester, for a total of two credits. This seminar, which meets approximately seven times each semester, focuses on building and then applying the particular skills required by lawyers in the international, transnational and comparative areas. Because these semester components must be taken on a pass/fail basis, they do not count toward the 7 credit pass/fail maximum.
During the fall semester, the 2L Seminar focuses on such areas as specialized research in international and transnational law, international negotiation and advocacy techniques, and comparative law. In the spring semester, the participants apply those skills in working on a project in a substantive area of their own choosing. The topic varies from year-to-year. For example, the GLS Class of 2010 chose to draft a proposed bill of rights for international migrants (a continuing project that has grown to involve other classes). The GLS class of 2011 focused on the area of transnational boundary disputes, and the GLS class of 2012 is now working on the international legal dimensions of climate change.
Required Courses Chosen From the General Curriculum
Each GLS participant meets at least once a year with the Faculty Director or Administrator to make sure that their course selections meet the program requirements shown below.
**Selection of alternatives and substitutions for the courses/seminars/clinics listed below requires prior written approval from the GLS Faculty Director. If a course/seminar/clinic is not listed as meeting a particular requirement, students should assume that it does not meet that requirement until they receive written approval.**
- 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
- 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 Business Transactions
International Business Transactions and Dispute Resolution
International Trade Law
International Trade Law and Regulation
International Trade Law and Regulation (WTO)
International Trade and the World Trade Organization
International Business and Trade Law
World Trade Law
- International/Transnational/Comparative Law Writing Requirement Seminar.
GLS students must complete their Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement in a seminar or clinic dealing with international, transnational, or comparative law.
This seminar MUST satisfy the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement (WR) for the J.D. Program (see “Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement,” in the J.D. Program’s Academic Requirements and Policies section of the Bulletin). This means that the seminar/clinic MUST have a WR listed as the course requirement in the course schedule.
It is also possible to satisfy this requirement through Supervised Elective Research (see Supervised Research in the J.D. Program’s Academic Requirements and Policies section of the Bulletin).
Students wishing to choose this alternative must contact Professor Stewart for approval in advance of registering for the supervised research project. The supervised research topic must be substantially international, transnational, or comparative in nature or must focus primarily on a component of foreign law.
Illustrative List of Courses Satisfying International/Transnational/Comparative Law Writing Requirement (Seminar or clinic must have WR listed as the course requirement in the current course schedule)
Courses in bold indicate courses that will be offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Fall courses are indicated by blue text, spring courses by red text, and courses offered in both semesters by green text.
- Asia-Pacific Legal Issues
- Asian Law and Policy Studies Seminar
- Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) Clinic
- Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar: The South African Bill of Rights
- Comparative Consumer Protection Law Seminar
- Comparative Corporate Law Seminar
- Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs Seminar
- Current Issues in Transnational (Private)
- International Law
- Energy Problems Seminar: Climate Change and Other Energy Uses
- Early American Legal History: From Settlement to Reconstruction, 1600-1880
- English Legal History Seminar: Foundations of American Law
- Globalization and Systemic Risk Seminar
- Free Trade Agreements and the WTO
- Health and Human Rights
- Human Rights and US National Security Seminar
- International Law in Domestic Courts Seminar
- International Law Seminar: Use of Force and Conflict Resolution
- International Law Seminar: Water Resources
- International Legal Philosophy Seminar
- International Migration and Development
- International Trade Law and Regulation (WTO) Seminar
- International Trade Seminar: The WTO and Subsidies
- International Women's Human Rights Clinic
- International Women's Human Rights Seminar
- Investor-State Dispute Settlement
- Latin American Law Seminar
- Law and Development Seminar
- Law and Policy of International Economic Relations Seminar
- National and Global Health Law: O'Neill Colloquium
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
- People and Minorities in International Law
- Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies: Advanced Research Seminar
- Space Law Seminar
- Transnational Legal Theory Seminar
- War and Peace Seminar: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance
- Workplace Regulation in the Global Economy Seminar
- 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.)
Courses in bold indicate courses that will be offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Fall courses are indicated by blue text, spring courses by red text, and courses offered in both semesters by green text.
- Illustrative Courses Satisfying Comparative Law Requirement
Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Civil Systems
- Anti-Corruption Laws and Enforcement Mechanisms: An International Approach
- Antitrust: U.S. and EU Law
- China's Financial Markets
- Chinese Law and Culture
- Chinese Law Seminar
- Chinese for Lawyers: Distinctive Aspects of Chinese Law and Legal Research
- Comparative Bill of Rights Seminar
Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar
- Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar: The South African Bill of Rights
- Comparative Consumer Protection Law Seminar
- Comparative Corporate Law Seminar
- Comparative EU/US Antitrust Law Seminar
- Comparative Jurisprudence
- Comparative Law: Legal Systems in Transition
- Comparative Privacy Law: EU and US
- Comparative Tax Law
- Corporate and Workplace Governance in a Comparative Perspective Seminar
- Cross-Border Transactions in Latin America
- Data Privacy in the United States and the European Union Seminar
- EU Law: Selected Topics in ECJ Jurisprudence
- European Environmental Law
- European Legal Systems and the Holocaust
- French for Lawyers: A Study of the French Legal System and French Legal Terminology
- Global Revolutions, Social Change, and NGOs (formerly International Civil Society Law Seminar)
- Harrison Institute for Public Law: Policy Clinic (see note below)
- International Antitrust Law
- International and Comparative Law on Women's Human Rights
- International Conflicts of Jurisdiction and the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law
- International Dispute Resolution from a European Perspective
- International Law of Labor and Employment
- International Trafficking in Persons
- Investment and Trade Laws in the Middle East
- Introduction to Roman Law
- Islamic Finance Law
- Islamic Law: The Future
- Japan/US Comparative Legal Study
- Japanese Civil Procedure
- Latin American Law Seminar
- Law and Foreign Investment in China
- Nationalism and Cultural Identity Seminar
- Property Law and Gov't Economic Policy: American Indians, the Balkans and the Americas
- Spanish for Lawyers Across Latin American Legal Systems
- Transnational Copyright Law (London Summer Program 2010 only)
Note: Students who wish to satisfy the comparative law requirement by participating in the Harrison Institute for Public Law: Policy Clinic must have a sufficiently international/transnational focus to their clinic work. Students must discuss the topic of their work with the GLS Faculty Director and receive written approval for this clinic to count as the comparative law requirement.
- Focus Elective. Students must also 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 on an area that they have not already explored in another course.
Courses in bold indicate courses that will be offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Fall courses are indicated by blue text, spring courses by red text, and courses offered in both semesters by green text.
- Illustrative Courses Satisfying "Focus" Elective
- Advanced International Commercial Arbitration: Practice Seminar
- Advanced Issues in International Human Rights Seminar
- Advanced Patent Law Seminar
- Anti-Corruption Laws and Enforcement Mechanisms: An International Approach
- Asia-Pacific Legal Issues
- Aviation Law
- Contract Law Seminar: Franchising
- Copyright Law: Advanced
- Cross-Border Commercial Regulation: Aviation and Maritime Law
- Cross-Border Transactions in Latin America
- Employment Discrimination: Domestic and International Perspectives
- Foreign Relations Law
- French for Lawyers
- Free Trade Agreements and the WTO
- Global Commerce and Litigation
- Global Health Law
- Global Health Law and Governance: Grand Challenges
- Global Pension Reforms and Issues: Responding to Aging Populations Worldwide
- Global Securities Offerings
- Globalization and the Legal Profession Seminar
- Health and Human Rights
- Human Rights at the Intersection of Trade and Corporate Responsibility
- Human Rights Fact-Finding Seminar: Repatriation of Persons with Mental Disabilities
- Immigration Law and Policy
- Intellectual Property in World Trade
- International Antitrust Law
- International Bankruptcy
- International Business Transactions
- International Business Litigation in US Courts
- International Civil Litigation
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Criminal Law
- International Criminal Tribunals
- International Economic Crime and Corruption
- International Environmental Law
- International Human Rights
- International Human Rights Law
- International Law II: International Business and Trade Law
- International Legal Philosophy
- International Negotiations Seminar
- International Project Finance
- International Project Finance and Investment
- International Trade and Health
- International Trade Remedies and the WTO
- International Trade, Investment, and Sustainable Development: Reconciling Open Markets and Environmental and Social Concerns
- International Trafficking in Persons
- Issues in Disarmament: Proliferation and Terrorism Seminar
- Law and Development Seminar
- Law of War Seminar
- Litigation Practice in International Arbitration
- Managing National Security
- Maritime Law
- 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
- Rule of Law and the Administration of Justice
- Statelessness and the Right to a Nationality
- Tax Treaties
- The Global Environment Health and Law
- 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 January 9, 2012 CM
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