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Required Courses<\/h2>\n

All students are required to take the below three courses, which are worth a total of 4 credits.<\/p>\n

Students who attend the program in both the Fall and the Spring semester may only take the Global Practice Exercise in their first semester at CTLS. They must also take the Transnational Law Colloquium and Lectures in Transnational Justice during their first semester, but may choose in which semester to take the Core Course.<\/p>\n

Global Practice Exercise
\nCTLS Faculty<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Each semester will begin with an intensive, multi-day exercise in transnational and\/or comparative law. The exercise will provide an opportunity for the diverse students and faculty at CTLS to work together on a common legal problem. All faculty and students will participate in the exercise. The objectives are to give students and faculty a quick start working together on a real legal practice problem, which will highlight the importance and challenges of communicating across transnational legal and cultural boundaries; draw CTLS participants into active roles in their own learning and academic exchange; and introduce students to the process of tackling real-world legal problems that transcend national boundaries, learning both transnational variations in substantive law and legal processes.<\/p>\n

1 Credit, required. Evaluation: Participation in the plenary sessions and breakout groups.<\/p>\n

Transnational Law Colloquium and Lectures in Transnational Justice (Spring 2026)
\n<\/strong>Coordinated by Jennifer Hillman<\/a>, Georgetown Law and Christian Hofmann<\/a>, National University of Singapore<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Transnational Law Colloquium<\/strong> will meet weekly for presentations by leading academics and practitioners on topics of current international, transnational or comparative law interest. Each meeting will involve the presentation of a paper, brief comments, and a discussion with the author\/presenter among all participants. Attendees will be the Center\u2019s students, faculty and invited guests. Students, who will be divided up and each assigned to attend a sub-set of the colloquia, will write short responses to two of the papers in advance of the meeting.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Lectures in Transnational Justice<\/strong> are similar to the Colloquia; however, they are more formal, have a higher profile, and are aimed at the wider CTLS community within London. There will be two lectures each semester delivered by scholars or practitioners with significant transnational experience. Students must attend both lectures.<\/p>\n

1 Credit, required. Evaluation: Participation in seven assigned colloquia and submission of two response papers (500 words each), Participation at two lectures.<\/p>\n

Transnational Law Colloquium and Lectures in Transnational Justice (Fall 2026)
\n<\/strong>Coordinated by Gabrielle Appleby<\/a>, University of New South Wales and Kevin Tobia<\/a>, Georgetown Law<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Transnational Law Colloquium<\/strong> will meet weekly for presentations by leading academics and practitioners on topics of current international, transnational or comparative law interest. Each meeting will involve the presentation of a paper, brief comments, and a discussion with the author\/presenter among all participants. Attendees will be the Center\u2019s students, faculty and invited guests. Students, who will be divided up and each assigned to attend a sub-set of the colloquia, will write short responses to two of the papers in advance of the meeting.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Lectures in Transnational Justice<\/strong> are similar to the Colloquia; however, they are more formal, have a higher profile, and are aimed at the wider CTLS community within London. There will be two lectures each semester delivered by scholars or practitioners with significant transnational experience. Students must attend both lectures.<\/p>\n

1 Credit, required. Evaluation: Participation in five assigned colloquia and submission of two response papers (500 words each), Participation at two lectures.<\/p>\n

Core Course: Transnational Law: Introduction and Selected Issues (Spring 2026)
\nHarold Hongju Koh<\/a>, Yale Law School\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

This course will introduce students to the various forms of law that comprise \u201ctransnational law,\u201d definded by Philip Jessup as \u201call law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers\u2026 [including] [b]oth public and private international law\u2026 [and] other rules which do not wholly fit into such standard categories.\u201d The course will familiarize students with the principal forms of transnational law and the relations among them. The course will first introduce students to the trans-substantive “transnational legal process,” by which domestic legal rules are uploaded into international law and vice versa, or transplanted from one legal system to another. The course will then investigate Jessup’s \u201cother rules\u201d which include rules of “transnational legal substance,” that regulate persons or transactions situated or occurring outside the state\u2019s physical borders. Today, transnational legal substance has grown considerably and include international human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal law; law of the sea, environment and climate change; and global public health.<\/p>\n

2 Credits, required. Evaluation:<\/p>\n