Each year, the American Branch of the International Law Association hosts a Fall “International Law Weekend (ILW)” conference. The theme of ILW 2022 is The Next 100 Years of International Law.  Registration for this 10/20-10/22 conference is ...

The Office of International Affairs is seeking a few motivated JD students to serve as Student Associates ($15/hour) to our department for the 2022-2023 academic year. The weekly time commitment will be minimal, and balanced between ‘office hour...

On September 13-14, 2022, Perry World House (a hub for global engagement and international policy research at the University of Pennsylvania) is hosting its annual Global Order Colloquium. PWH is seeking to hire 1-2 students to serve as rapporteur...

Fall 2022 Global Research Seminar “GRS: The UN Climate Negotiation and the Impact of Subnational Actors”   Course Announcement We are pleased to announce an exciting new Global Research Seminar (GRS) taught by Professor William ...

Extending learning beyond the classroom and across borders, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Global Research Seminars (GRSs) are semester- or year-long intensive research courses that culminate in overseas field research visits, during ...

A student’s journey to Israel yields new perspectives on how countries can support clean technology and how project failure can stimulate future success. ...

Six Penn Carey Law student delegates attended the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C. For well over a century, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Annual Meeting has been one of the larg...

A timely externship provided Peter Neal L’22 with an opportunity to explore the topic of international influence on domestic matters outside of traditional classroom study. In his 2L year, Peter Neal L’22 took a deep dive into the topic of...

Quinn Dunkak L’22 came to law school with an interest in international affairs. An externship with the State Department allowed him to explore ways to combine international law with government service. As he entered law school, Quinn Dunkak ...

In the world’s largest moot court competition, the Penn Carey Law team put in a strong performance, with one set of memorials tying for third in the entire competition. With participants from roughly 700 law schools in 100 countries and juri...

Students from University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School joined their peers from 13 other leading law schools virtually this spring to explore the future of international law at the 10th annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program. Four students f...

The Bar Council of the Maldives visited the Law School to assist its efforts in regulating legal education and the legal profession in the Republic of Maldives. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School recently hosted a delegation from ...

In Fall 2021, Penn Carey Law School offered a dynamic and timely Bok course, “China and International Law,” that looked at international law in the context of topical and challenging case studies, including that of the South China Sea. The cou...

When Kevin Matthews L’21 and Andrew Timmick L’21 were deciding among law schools, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s study abroad partnership with the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in Paris was an impo...

International Law Weekend (ILW) is a highly accessible opportunity for Penn Law students to explore multiple facets of international law. Each October, the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) organizes a two-and-a-half...

By Maysan Alobaid This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   Money laundering has been omnipresent throughout th...

By Maysan Alobaid This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   The Kafala system—a legal approach that many Midd...

By Maysan Alobaid This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   As the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region h...

Through this partnership opportunity, Penn Law students can enroll remotely in 1 of 8 classes being offered at Hong Kong University or Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Read more about the Global Online Courses. ...

By Szu-Yi (Julie) Lee This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   With the growth of regional business, different...

By Szu-Yi (Julie) Lee This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   It has been more than two years since Taiwan le...

GRS Fall 2021 We are pleased to announce an exciting new Global Research Seminar (GRS) taught by Professor Gideon Parchomovsky (Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law) and Dr. Muhammad Sarahne (SJD’20). This course will meet weekly throughou...

By Betha Igbinosun This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021. In 2003, Adebayo Alonge’s father purchased salbutamol, ...

By Betha Igbinosun This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021. On June 4, 2021, the Federal Republic of Nigeria indefini...

By Camilla Tagliabue This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   In 2011, the United Nation issued the UN Guiding...

By Szu-Yi (Julie) Lee This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) an...

By Camilla Tagliabue This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   The establishment of the Task Force on Climate-r...

By Camilla Tagliabue This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021.   Anyone who has spent any significant amount of t...

This spring, six University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students joined students from law schools around the world to participate in a weeklong virtual workshop hosted by Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The theme of this year’s workshop, “Sam...

By Betha Igbinosun This blog post was submitted as a contribution to the Tabula project, an international and comparative research collaboration carried out over the summer of 2021. Although vaccination programs in Africa have made giant s...

Allison Perlin L’20 is the recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Fellowship and works at Human Rights First. Originally from Kildeer, Illinois, Allison received her B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of Wisconsin, wher...

Patricia was awarded postgraduate funding to support her first year at Human Rights First as a Chubb-Penn Rule of Law and Human Rights Fellow. Instead of following a linear career trajectory, Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 has left room to act r...

During a time when international travel was impossible for many, students could still log into an international classroom – without leaving their homes. Penn Carey Law School prides itself in offering students a wealth of opportunities to tail...

This interview originally appeared in Penn Today. Penn Today spoke to Demisse Selassie L’21, to hear his thoughts on the continuing turmoil in Tigray. Perry World House’s Graduate Associates Program is open to all graduate students, fr...

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School recently hosted an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE) in partnership with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL), with some participants attendin...

Joelle Hageboutros L’21 has received and accepted an offer to be in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judicial Fellows Programme for 2021-2022. The competitive, highly selective program was established to provide recent law graduates the ...

Yumna Kamel LLM’20 came to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School with an interest in immigration and refugee policy. Stephanie Hader LLM’20 arrived with a background in environmental law. Upon graduation, they joined forces to build ...

Each year, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Bok Visiting International Professors Program brings several internationally recognized experts to the Law School to lead intensive seminars, engage with faculty and students, and brin...

There are many pathways to a foreign clerkship at the Supreme Court of Israel, and there is no right or wrong point in one’s legal career to stretch oneself with such an experience. Three recent Penn Law School alumni shared what it was like...

Students from University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School joined their peers from 13 other leading law schools online this March to explore the future of public and private international law at the ninth annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program. ...

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School won the Americas Regional Round of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition this past month. The Price Media Law Moot Court is a worldwide, international competition run by the Univer...

Many students who come to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School having studied a foreign language — or even having grown up speaking one —discover their fluency does not automatically extend to legal matters. As every 1L quickly lear...

The following excerpts are from a conversation with John Ghazvinian, Interim Director of the Middle East Center, as part of a Fall 2021 info session on Penn Law’s International Certificates and Joint Degrees.   About the Middle East Cen...

The following excerpts are from a conversation with Catherine Bartch, Associate Director for Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of a Fall 2021 info session on Penn Law’s International Certificates...

Passing through the gate of the double-barbed-wire fence surrounding the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Meroua Zouai L’20 thought about the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policies and the people who bore the brunt of th...

Victoria Ochoa L’21 is a Texas native and a JD/MPP student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. Last year, the President circumvented Congress and declared a national emergency to build a wall in my hometo...

How does transitional justice become truly inclusive? What are the essential legal mechanisms necessary to ensure a participatory democracy? These are important questions that six of us had the opportunity to delve into last month, w...

By: Eduarda Lague L’21 This summer I am working at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CEJIL is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with consultative status before the Organization of Amer...

By: Peter Jones L’20 My primary goal for studying at Waseda Law School was to engage in a comparative Environmental Law curriculum in a country that has a unique history of environmental regulations, challenges, and agreements. I conducted r...

By: Shane Fischman L’19 This piece originally appears in the 2018 Global Affairs Review. October 15, 2018 Dear Rangita, LSE is going really well. I’ve been going to some interesting events here as well. There was a panel last w...

Reposted from an earlier interview. Q: Could you tell us about your areas of teaching and research and why you wanted to come to Penn Law School for the year? A: I teach international law at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing. Inter...

By: James Albrecht L’19 I am currently a visiting student at King’s College London, set right on the Thames River in the heart of London. Seeking to take advantage of everything London has to offer both in the city and in the classroom, I h...

By: Austin Gassen L’19 When I tell people that I am studying abroad in my last year of law school, I generally get the same response: “Wait, what? You can do that? Also, why?” I understand these questions. Studying abroad in law school i...

By: Christopher Ritter L’18 Since 2015, European lawmakers have faced the daunting challenge of registering, identifying, and integrating rising numbers of refugees from war-ravaged nations, such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Across the E...

Frank Broomell L’19 This piece originally appeared in the 2018 Global Affairs Review. All views are the author’s own, and do not reflect the views of his current or previous employers or the U.S. government. Frank Broomell was a studen...

Patricia Stottlemyer L’17 Guantanamo Bay is a surreal place. Almost as if a land outside time, it also exists outside the awareness of many Americans. Before my first trip to Camp Justice as a legal observer, friends and family were confused...

By: Benjamin Barsky L’19 The international community has both welcomed and used the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a means of supporting people with disabilities. On March 30, 2007, when the CRPD opened for s...

By: Joshua Spector L’18 June 28, 2018 In the aftermath of World War II, as Europe lay in a state of ruin, three young Harvard students decided that physical reconstruction of the continent was insufficient to avert the recurrence of the...

By: John Morgan LLM’18 More than twenty eminent practitioners and academics met at Penn Law in April 2018 for the day-long PLIAA conference, which addressed the most pressing questions in international arbitration. Over 150 students from are...

By: Amanda Nasinyama LLM’17 In 2017, I interned with UN Women’s East and Southern Africa Regional Office for six months where I served as the Africa focal point for the Penn Law Global Women’s Leadership Project. During that period, I wo...

By: John Morgan LLM’18 The one thing we hadn’t expected was the visceral reaction. We had litigated before eminent judges, debated in parliaments, spoken at political rallies, but never had simply speaking to somebody so limited our abilit...

By: Allyson Reynolds L’17 Victims’ participation in proceedings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a relatively recent innovation in international criminal law. Though some civil law systems have maintained long-standing mech...

By: John Peng L’19 After its successful completion of federal, provincial, and local level elections in the summer and fall of 2017, Nepal took its first formal steps toward fulfilling its decade-long, constitutionally mandated transition to...

Natasha Arnpriester L’16 Reception conditions for individuals who fled to Greece in search of safety and a chance of a better life are characterized by widespread suffering, substandard accommodations, and exposure to extreme weather conditi...

What did you learn about your own country from this experience? The trip back to Uganda was truly enlightening. I do not think I had ever had the opportunity or time to appreciate the work that lawyers in Uganda, especially young lawyers, are do...

By: Claude Muhuza, LLM ’17 On 1 January 2017, Penn Law’s Global Research Seminar (GRS) class landed at José Martí international airport in Havana. The GRS class had spent the fall semester examining the treatment of civil and political r...

By: Allison Kowalski, L’17 February 8, 2017 Walking around the colorful streets of Havana is a disorienting experience. The buildings are antique, worn, crumbling, and full of life. The streets are full of people, tourists and locals al...