With more than 42 international law-related courses, seminars, labs, and clinics to choose from, Case School of Law's international law offerings are among the most diverse and extensive of any law school.
Case School of Law’s international law curriculum is unique in four respects:
• We offer International Law as a First Year elective course, providing students a head-start in exploring and developing expertise in the field.
• Second- and third-year students may take a variety of international law labs and clinics, to gain real-world experience working with actual clients, such as our Homeland Security Lab, War Crimes Research Lab, Global Corporate Governance Lab, Global Financial Integrity Lab, and Immigration Law Practicum.
• We offer a six-week Summer Institute for Global Justice summer study abroad program in the Netherlands, a spring break program on International Business Associations in the Cayman Islands, semester abroad externships at five international tribunals, semester abroad programs at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Ottawa, and Case Abroad at Home, featuring four mini-courses taught in Cleveland by distinguished foreign scholars in the week before fall semester.
• Students who take the International Law course and nine additional credit hours in international law specialty courses, listed below, may earn a certificate of concentration and graduate with honors in international law.
LL.M. Students
Foreign lawyers pursuing a Master of Laws degree at Case School of Law through the LL.M. program in U.S. and Global Legal Studies may also pursue a Concentration Certificate in Public International Law or International Business Law.
Case Abroad at Home
Introduced in August 2005, the "Case Abroad at Home" program comprises a series of one-credit mini-courses taught by international experts from universities in other countries. The courses augment our regular international law curriculum. They are offered at the law school and taught intensively the week before the start of the fall semester.
In August 2009, the following visiting faculty will be teaching the courses listed here:
Tom Zwart, Professor, University of Utrecht School of Law
- Course: Comparative Constitutional Law
Prof. Mira Sundara Rajan, Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law
University of British Columbia School of Law
- Course: Cultural Aspects of Intellectual Property
(Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts)
Lingyun Gao, Lecturer of Law and Assistant to the Dean
Fudan University School of Law
- Course: Contemporary Issues in International and Comparative Law:
Doing Business in China
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Visiting faculty who have taught in this program previously:
-Professor Jonathan Clough, Monash Law School, Australia (Cybercrime) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts;
-Professor Andrew Tettenborn, University of Exeter, United Kingdom (Comparative Commercial Remedies);
-Professor Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, University of Toronto, Canada (Comparative Human Rights Law);
-Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, Associate Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne (International Trade and Intellectual Property) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts;
-Professor Ljiljana Biukovic, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (External Relations of the European Union);
-Professor Olivier Cachard, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, University of Nancy, France (Electronic Commerce from a European Perspective) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts;
-Judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca (Atrocity Law);
-Professor Christopher Rassi, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Atrocity Law);
-Judge Lex Mooy, Dutch Criminal Court (Criminal Aspects of the European Court of Human Rights);
-Professor Tina Piper, McGill University Center for Intellectual Property Policy, Quebec (Open Science Norms: Implications for IP Law) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts;
-Noam Lubell, Lecturer, Law Faculty, Irish Center for Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Int'l Laws of Armed Conflict);
-Dr. Chidi Oguamanam, Director, Law & Technology Institute, Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts;
-Dr. Bronwyn Naylor, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Victoria, Australia (Crime and Gender);
-Professor Marco Ricolfi, University of Torino School of Law, Torino, Italy (European Trademark Law and Geographic Indications) Cosponsor: Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
The program will be coordinated by Professor Jon Groetzinger. Student inquiries may be directed to Professor Jon Groetzinger (jgroetzi@yahoo.com).
Faculty interested in teaching in this program should contact Professor Jacqueline Lipton (jdl14@case.edu), Associate Director, Frederick K Cox International Law Center.
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"A major motivation for attending Case School of Law was to take advantage of its international law faculty. The first year course in Global Perspectives made the wisdom of that choice evident to me. This was a unique opportunity to study with a cutting-edge legal analyst who brought a rare combination of enthusiasm and insight to his work."
Theodore C. Theofrastous ('99)
Managing Director and Fund Counsel, Panzica Investments, LLC
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Law 1998-99
