DEAN RUSK INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER

Named after the former U.S. Secretary of State who taught at the School of Law in the last decades of his career, the Dean Rusk International Law Center has served since 1977 as a nucleus for global research, education, and service. Through its Global Practice Preparation and International Professional Education initiatives, the Center:

• Offers world class preparation for 21st century practice through an extensive international and transnational law curriculum, advocacy moots, study abroad, and hands-on global externships at home and overseas.

• Hosts foreign-trained lawyers who earn the year-long Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree, visiting scholars who conduct research, and international judges and practitioners who undertake continuing legal education.

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Partners in the Center’s efforts include:

• Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

• Global Atlanta

• World Affairs Council of Atlanta

• Atlanta International Arbitration Society

• International Law Society

• American Society of International Law

• American Branch of the International Law Association

• Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Supreme Allied Command Transformation

• World Affairs Council of Atlanta

• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

• United Nations Academic Impact

• Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law, Israel

• O.P. Jindal Global University, Law School, India

• Courses in international, comparative, transnational, and foreign affairs law, taught by professors acclaimed for their scholarship and global service

• Study abroad in Leuven, Belgium, and The Hague, Netherlands, full-time externship placements with NATO, as well as Global Externships at offices throughout the world

• Involvement in high-level conferences and closed-door experts’ workshops on cutting-edge global issues, sponsored by the Dean Rusk International Law Center

• Advocacy training via the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court and the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions

• Service on the Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, one of the first American journals in the field, or in the International Law Society

• Scholarly research using an extensive law library collection, which includes the Louis B. Sohn Library on International Relations and places emphasis on human rights, business law, global governance, and intellectual property

• Foreign trained lawyers pursuing an LL.M. degree and graduate students pursuing the Graduate Certificate in International Law interact with J.D. students in classes and student organizations

• Networking with alumni and alumnae who practice on all five continents, in myriad subfields of international law and policy

• Presentations on cutting-edge scholarship by the law school’s globally recognized faculty, visiting scholars, and other experts participating in the International Law Colloquium as well as lectures and conferences on topics like the laws of war, intellectual property, international criminal justice, international arbitration, corporate sustainability, climate change, space law and international trade

Offered in partnership with the prestigious Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, our Global Governance Summer School continues a fourdecade tradition of summer study in Belgium. Students explore global issues, such as trade and sustainable development, peace and security, trafficking and other crimes, intellectual property, the environment, human rights and the rule of law, and migration. The Summer School also features networking opportunities and professional development trips to leading legal institutions in Brussels and The Hague.

Students receive academic credit for enrolling in this program.

GLOBAL EXTERNSHIP OVERSEAS | Up to 12 weeks during the summer Students benefit from funded summer placements at in-house legal departments, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations, private law firms, and government offices, in scores of countries on all five continents. Externships provide hands-on, experiential learning opportunities that are directly connected to students’ career objectives.

Complementing the Global Externship Overseas (GEO) is the Global Externship At-Home (GEA) which provides summer and semester-long international law-related externships at offices within the United States, including at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Supreme Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia.

Previous Placements Include:

• Argentina Syngenta AG

• Azerbaijan: Deloitte

• Belgium: Van Bael & Bellis

• Bermuda: Office of the Privacy Commissioner

• Cambodia Documentation Center of Cambodia

• China: Han Kun Law

• England: Maples Teesdale LLP

• Estonia: Sorainen

• France: UNESCO

• Germany: Bodenheimer

• Ghana: Women in Law and Development in Africa

• India: MV Kini

• Italy: Freebly

• Jordan: Tamkeen Fields for Aid

• Luxembourg: Fererro

• The Netherlands: Open Society Justice Initiative

• New Zealand: Department of Conservation

• Romania: eLiberare

• Samoa: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

• South Korea: SK E&C

• Spain: Araoz & Rueda

• Thailand: Boat People SOS Center for Asylum Protection

• Tunisiaa: Houerbi Law Firm

• Vietnam: LNT & Partners

• United Arab Emirates: Al Tamimi & Co.

J.D. students in their 2nd and 3rd year can participate in a semester-long international exchange with our institutional partner, O.P. Jindal Global University. This exchange offers students access to a wide range of international law courses and professors, as well as unique professional development opportunities. Located in Sonipat, just outside of New Delhi, India, O.P. Jindal Global University’s Jindal Global Law School is ranked the top law school in both India and South Asia by QS World University Rankings and is ranked 70th in the world for law. Students have access to the law school’s 25 research centers, which include International Trade, UN Studies, and Women, Law, and Social Change, while benefitting from immersion in India’s political center. This substantive academic and professional experience in India, an emerging global economic superpower, offers students a unique means of preparation for the globalized practice of law

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