International Programs Blog

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...

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...

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...