Law School
Modern legal education must train students to succeed in a rapidly evolving transnational environment. Mastery of a single nation's system of laws is no longer adequate, even if that nation is the United States. The world's leading law schools are already international in scope and purpose. The Cornell Law School is such an institution, with the Berger International Legal Studies Program, the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, the Clarke Middle East Fund and the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies. Dating from 1948 but endowed in 1992, the Berger Program is dedicated to a comprehensive vision of world peace through law. It advances the Law School’s long tradition of outstanding research, instruction, and scholarship in international and comparative law through programs centered primarily at Cornell but also in Paris and elsewhere abroad. The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, founded in 2002, brings a broad interdisciplinary and humanistic focus to the study of law in East Asia. Through research, teaching, and scholarly dialogue, it seeks to expand the purview of legal scholarship and to develop new ways of thinking about transnational law, politics, and culture. The Clarke Middle East Fund supports teaching and research with a Middle Eastern focus. The Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies, founded in 2001, provides an administrative infrastructure for coordinating the Law School’s international programs.
Cornell Law School has a world-renowned faculty working in international and comparative law; a strong student body from around the world; a steady flow of visiting scholars and speakers from every continent; regular symposia and colloquia; a leading journal devoted to international and comparative law; unique dual-degree programs; a variety of semester abroad opportunities and international specializations; an exciting summer institute at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne; an acclaimed library; and websites with important international collections.
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Campus Life Resources
International Program Events
The Berger International Legal Studies Program, the Clarke Fund for the Middle East, and the Leo Nevas Human Rights Fund all sponsor speakers during the academic year, as well as conferences both at Cornell and abroad.
Law School Student Organizations
Cornell Law School hosts a wide range of internationally-oriented student organizations, including one of the leading international law journals, and sponsors a number of international moot court teams.
Courses
Asian Law Curriculum
Region:
Asia
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture offers a unique array of curriculum opportunities for those interested in this region of the world.
International Program Courses
Students can choose from a rich variety of international and comparative courses at the law school, as well in other departments at Cornell.
Faculty
International Law Faculty
Cornell Law School’s renowned faculty include leaders in international and comparative legal scholarship.
Financial Resources
Fellows Program for Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
Region:
Asia
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture offers modest support towards tuition to one JSD student each year whose work makes a particularly unique and important contribution to the research objectives of the Program.
Programs, Centers, and Institutes
Berger International Legal Studies Program
Modern legal education must train students to succeed in a rapidly evolving transnational environment. Mastery of a single nation's system of laws is no longer adequate, even if that nation is the United States. The world's leading law schools are already international in scope and purpose. The Cornell Law School is such an institution.
Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
Region:
Asia
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture aims to bring a broad interdisciplinary and humanistic focus to the study of law in East Asia. Through research, teaching, and scholarly dialogue, it seeks to expand the purview of legal scholarship and to develop new ways of thinking about transnational law, politics, and culture.
Law School International Programs and Projects
Cornell Law School supports a range of programs and centers that deal with international and comparative topics.
Publications
International Law Journal
Founded in 1967, the Cornell International Law Journal is one of the oldest and most prominent journals of its kind in the country.
Study Abroad
Paris Summer Institute
Region:
Europe
The Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law is an opportunity to study and compare the American, European, and Asian legal systems in a European setting. It combines the strengths of Cornell's faculty with the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, offering instruction in a uniquely international and culturally rich setting.
Semester Abroad
Cornell Law School students have a broad range of possibilities for spending a semester abroad.
