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The University of Georgia School of Law has a long and rich tradition in the area of international legal education. During the 1970s, the school formalized its commitment to provide knowledge and policy guidance on international issues, particularly in the area of trade, with the establishment of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy. In the years since, Georgia Law has broadened and strengthened its international programming to include:

• An influential corps of international law scholars

• A strong and varied international curriculum

• International symposia featuring some of the top legal academics and practitioners from around the world

• The Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law

• Foreign study abroad, internship and fellowship opportunities spanning the globe

• A Master of Laws program

• Student opportunities for gaining international advocacy skills

• Substantial foreign law holdings in its library, which includes the Sohn Collection on International Relations

The legal education landscape is changing, and Georgia Law continues to embrace opportunities to increase its presence in the international arena and to expand and to develop new international offerings for its law students and faculty.

Please turn the pages of this brochure to learn more about the world class international initiatives at Georgia Law and to discover how the University of Georgia School of Law is influencing international law and policy.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Hanner White Dean and J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law

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landscape is changing, and

Georgia Law continues to

embrace opportunities to

increase its presence in the

international arena and to

expand and to develop new

international offerings for its

law students and faculty.”

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Diane Marie Amann, Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law

International law scholar Diane Marie Amann joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2011 as the holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law.

Amann came to the law school from the University of California at Davis, where she was a law professor, served as the founding director of the California International Law Center and was a Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar for the 2010–11 academic year.

Her research examines the interaction of regional, national, and international legal regimes in efforts to combat atrocity and cross-border crime. She has published more than four dozen chapters and articles in English, French, and Italian. Formerly a vice president of the American Society of International Law and the chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools, Amann, the founder of the IntLawGrrls blog, was honored with the 2010 American Bar Association Section on International Law Mayre J. Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law. In 2005, her article “Abu Ghraib” received the Article of the Year in International Criminal Law Award from the U.S. National Section of the International Association of Penal Law.

Prior to joining the teaching academy, Amann served as a judicial clerk for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, whose biography she is writing. She also practiced federal criminal defense law in San Francisco, Calif.

Amann earned a B.S. in journalism with highest honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; an M.A. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles; a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University, where she served as note and comment editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif; and a Dr.h.c. in law from the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Select PublicationsCecelia Goetz, Woman at Nuremberg, 11 Int’l Crim. L. Rev. 607 (2011), in special journal issue on “Women and International Criminal Law” dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald (D. Amann, J. Ramji-Nogales and B. Van Schaack eds.)

John Paul Stevens and Equally Impartial Government, 43 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 885 (2010)

“Portraits of Women at Nuremberg” in Proceedings of the Third International Humanitarian Law Dialogs (E. Andersen and D. Crane eds.) (American Society of International Law, 2010)

“Le Changement Climatique et la Sécurité Humaine (Climate Change and Human Security)” in Regards Croisés sur l’Internationalisation du Droit: France-États-Unis (Cross-Cutting Considerations of the Internationalization of Law: France-United States) (M. Delmas-Marty and S. Breyer eds.) (Société de Législation Comparée, 2009)

“Impartiality Deficit and International Criminal Judging” in Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice (W. Schabas, R. Thakur and E. Hughes eds.) (United Nations University Press, 2007)

Les Commissions militaires aux États-Unis (Military Commissions in the United States), 29 Archives de Politique Criminelle 215 (2007)

John Paul Stevens, Human Rights Judge, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 1569 (2006)

Abu Ghraib, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1569 (2006)

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Walter Hellerstein, Distinguished Research Professor & Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law

Walter Hellerstein, who has devoted most of his professional life to the study and practice of state and local taxation law, is widely regarded as the nation’s leading academic authority in this area.

Over the past several years, he has become very involved in international cross-border tax issues, particularly with regard to consumption taxes. Hellerstein is an academic adviser to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on issues involving cross-border consumption taxation, and he is a member of the Working Party’s Technical Advisory Group that is developing guidelines for the taxation of cross-border supplies of services and intangibles. He has consulted with the United Nations and the World Trade Organization on e-commerce issues and has lectured at the European Tax College in Leuven, Belgium, and in Tilburg, the Netherlands; the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.

His scholarship comprises more than 130 articles in highly respected law reviews and journals as well as six books/monographs, including State Taxation, a two-volume work that is regarded by many as the field’s “bible,” as well as the leading casebook on state and local taxes, State and Local Taxation, now in its ninth edition.

Prior to joining the Georgia Law faculty in 1978, Hellerstein clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

He earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University and his law degree from the University of Chicago, where he was editor-in-chief of The University of Chicago Law Review.

Select Publications“Comparing the Treatment of Charities Under Value Added Taxes and Retail Sales Taxes” in VAT Exemptions: Consequences and Design Alternatives (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming 2011)

“Formulary Apportionment in the EU and the US: A Comparative Perspective on the Sharing Mechanism of the Proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base” in Tax Mobility (A. Dourado ed.) (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, forthcoming 2011)

“International Tax Developments in the United States: Fighting Fraud and Tax Haven Abuse – Lessons from the American States” in Second Symposium on European Tax Policy (LexisNexis, forthcoming 2011)

“Tax Aspects of Fiscal Federalism in the United States” in Tax Aspects of Fiscal Federalism (C. Sacchetto and G. Bizioli eds.) (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, forthcoming 2011)

“Tax Planning Under the CCCTB’s Formulary Apportionment Provisions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (D. Weber ed.) (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming 2011)

Challenging Legal Issues Confronting VAT Regimes, 131 Tax Notes 409 (2011) (with J. Sedon)

“Horizontal Tax Coordination in the United States” in Horizontal Tax Coordination (Kluwer Law International, 2011)

Interjurisdictional Issues in the Design of a VAT, 63 Tax L. Rev. 359 (2010) (with M. Keen)

VAT and the Tax-Exempt Sector: Unique U.S. Issues, 129 Tax Notes 1373 (2010) (with H. Duncan)

VAT Exemptions: Principles and Practice, 128 Tax Notes 989 (2010) (with H. Duncan)

The VAT in the European Union, 127 Tax Notes 461 (2010) (with T. Gillis)

“Consumption Taxation of Cross-Border Trade in Services in an Age of Globalization” in Globalization and Its Tax Discontents: Tax Policy and International Investments (A. Cockfield ed.) (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

“Jurisdiction to Impose and Enforce Income and Consumption Taxes: Towards a Uniform Conception of Tax Nexus” in Value Added Tax and Direct Taxation – Similarities and Differences (M. Lang and P. Melz eds.) (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, 2009)

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C. Donald Johnson, Director of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy

C. Donald Johnson joined Georgia Law in 2004 as the director of the Dean Rusk Center. In this capacity, he is responsible for the management and direction of the center’s mission of increasing the understanding of global legal and policy issues through teaching, conferences, research, scholarship and international outreach programs.

Previously, Johnson was a partner at the law firm Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in law related to international trade and investment, national security and foreign policy issues.

In 1998, he was nominated to the rank of ambassador in the Office of United States Trade Representative by President Bill Clinton and served for 30 months as chief textile negotiator. He was on the team that negotiated China’s entry into the WTO and, among others, he led negotiations for the U.S.-Cambodia Textile Agreement, which is considered a landmark because it included, for the first time, labor provisions linked to trade benefits.

From 1993 to 1995, Johnson served as the U.S. congressman for the 10th district of Georgia, focusing on national security and international trade issues. He also served in the Georgia State Senate from 1987 to 1992. His other public service includes four years in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Office (with two years in Turkey) and acting as trade counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee.

He earned his Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Georgia, where he served as articles editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. He also obtained a certificate in private and public international law from The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.

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Dean Rusk Center avail its

enormous potential to be

recognized as a premier

center for international law

scholarship. The center has

a foundation based on a

dynamic international law

faculty, a productive staff and

enthusiastic law students

with whom to work toward

this goal.”

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Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy

The Dean Rusk Center was established in 1977 to expand the scope of international legal research, teaching and service at the University of Georgia School of Law. Nearly 35 years later, the center, named after former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, remains committed to increasing the understanding of global legal and policy issues, to providing a sound basis for policy judgments and to contributing to the solution of problems and issues of global significance.

In fulfilling this mission, the Rusk Center organizes conferences and lectures addressing important and timely international matters; serves as a resource for collaboration on international trade and investment issues at both the federal and state levels; coordinates the school’s Master of Laws, study abroad and global internship programs; administers an international judicial training program; hosts visiting scholars for research projects and short courses as well as publishes an Occasional Papers series and annual newsletter.

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The Dean Rusk Center is named after the late U.S. Secretary of State who served on the Georgia Law faculty. One of his legacies is frequent gatherings of former U.S. Secretaries of State to discuss current U.S. foreign policy. The last roundtable Georgia Law hosted was The Report of the Secretaries of State: Bipartisan Advice to the Next Administration, where Henry Kissinger, James Baker III, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell came together in a unique forum moderated by newscaster Terence Smith of “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”

Dean Rusk, Former Secretary of State

The Dean Rusk Center is named after the late U.S. Secretary of State, who was a faculty member at Georgia Law for nearly a quarter of a century. Rusk was the chief steward of foreign policy during the heart of the Cold War, one of the most tumultuous eras in U.S. history. A tough and able negotiator, he guided the creation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, the East-West Trade Bill and the beginnings of the SALT talks. His greatest accomplishment, Rusk often said, was adding eight years to the period when no nuclear bomb was dropped. He served as the Sibley Professor of International Law at UGA,

where he taught international law and inspired both

students and colleagues through his wisdom,

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Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge, Professor of Law

Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge’s teaching and research interests include dispute resolution, arbitration, business transactions and litigation, all at the international level.

An accomplished teacher and scholar who joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2008, Rutledge was selected to serve as a 2010–11 Fulbright Professor at the Institut für Zivilverfahrensrecht at the University of Vienna School of Law. He has also taught and spoken at numerous other leading institutions of higher education, including the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

Rutledge is the author of the forthcoming book Arbitration and the Constitution and co-author of International Civil Litigation in the United States. Additionally, he has published articles that appear in a diverse array of journals such as the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the Journal of International Arbitration.

Before entering the legal teaching academy, Rutledge served as a judicial clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and for Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He also practiced at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Austria.

He earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, his master’s degree from the University of Aberdeen and his law degree with high honors from the University of Chicago, where he served as executive editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

Select PublicationsArbitration and the Constitution (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011)

International Civil Litigation in the United States, 5th ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2011) (with G. Born)

“The Proportionality Principles and the (Amount in) Controversy” in American Illness (F. Buckley ed.) (Yale University Press, 2011)

“Zugang zum OGH aus Sicht der USA” in Der Zugang zum OGH in Zivil- und Strafsachen (Judicial Conference of the Supreme Court of Austria, forthcoming 2011)

Arbitration and Kompetenz, 3 Y.B. Arb. & Mediation (forthcoming 2011)

Samantar and Executive Power, 45 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. (forthcoming 2011)

Samantar, Official Immunity and Federal Common Law, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 589 (2011)

Arbitrating Disputes Between Companies and Individuals: Lessons From Abroad, 65 Disp. Resol. J. 30 (2010) (with A. Howard)

Introduction: The Constitutional Law of International Commercial Arbitration, 38 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 1 (2009)

Medellin, Delegation and Conflicts (of Law), 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 191 (2009)

“Schiedsgerichte in Nordamerika” in Hamburger Handbuch des Exportrechts (Dieckmann, 2009) (with I. Hanefeld)

“United States Arbitration Law” in the Practitioner’s Handbook on International Arbitration, 2d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009) (with R. Kent and C. Henel)

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Five years ago, Georgia Law began a colloquium series focused on international law, where notable scholars from around the country present works in progress to the school’s faculty and students. Today, this program continues to attract leading academics in the international field.

This series is overseen by Associate Professor Harlan G. Cohen.

2011 Lecturers

Evan J. Criddle, Syracuse University

Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Temple University

Anna Gelpern, American University

Harlan G. Cohen, Associate Professor of Law

Harlan G. Cohen, who joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2007, teaches in the areas of public international law, international human rights, international criminal law, international trade, and foreign affairs and the Constitution.

Currently the co-chair of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Cohen’s scholarship on international law and foreign affairs has appeared in journals such as the Iowa Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, the Berkeley Journal of International Law and the Yale Journal of International Law. He also has an article forthcoming in the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics.

Cohen came to Georgia Law from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Furman Fellow. He has practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and Brussels, Belgium, and has served as a judicial clerk for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Before entering law school, Cohen worked at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and at the journal Foreign Affairs.

Cohen earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University and graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Florence Allen Scholar and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He also served as articles editor of the New York University Law Review.

Select PublicationsFinding International Law, Part II: Our Fragmenting Legal Community, 44 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. (forthcoming 2012)

‘Undead’ Wartime Cases: Stare Decisis and the Lessons of History, 84 Tul. L. Rev. 957 (2010)

Can International Law Work? A Constructivist Expansion, 27 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 636 (2009)

Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 65 (2007)

Supremacy and Diplomacy: The International Law of the U.S. Supreme Court, 24 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 273 (2006)

The American Challenge to International Law: A Tentative Framework for Debate, 28 Yale J. Int’l L. 551 (2003)

Máximo Langer, University of California at Los Angeles

Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern University

Hari M. Osofsky, University of Minnesota

Lesley Wexler, University of Illinois

Jason Yackee, University of Wisconsin

2010 Lecturers

Anu Bradford, University of Chicago

Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto

Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago

Barbara Koremenos, University of Michigan

Julian G. Ku, Hofstra University

Christiana Ochoa, Indiana Universityat Bloomington

Robert D. Sloane, Boston University

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Timothy Meyer, who joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2010, teaches International Business Transactions, International Environmental Law and Constitutional Law.

Meyer’s scholarly interests focus on questions of institutional design in both public and private international law. His current research examines why states choose to codify customary international law; why states create non-binding “soft law” obligations, rather than binding treaty obligations; and the fragmentation of international energy law. Meyer’s work has been published in the Journal of Legal Analysis, the California Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Chicago Journal of International Law and the Fordham International Law Journal.

Prior to coming to Georgia, Meyer practiced law in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C. There, he represented the United States in commercial arbitrations and real property transactions all over the globe. Additionally, Meyer represented the United States in negotiations with a number of foreign governments on diplomatic law issues. Before joining the State Department, he served as a law clerk to Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Meyer earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a member of the California Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While at Berkeley, he held a Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Fellowship from the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He also earned his B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Select PublicationsBook Review: International Organizations: Politics, Law, and Practice by I. Hurd, 106 Am. J. Int’l L. (forthcoming 2012)

International Soft Law, 2 J. Legal Analysis 171 (2010) (with A. Guzman)

Power, Exit Costs, and Renegotiation in International Law, 51 Harv. Int’l L.J. 379 (2010)

International Common Law: The Soft Law of International Tribunals, 9 Chi. J. Int’l L. 515 (2009)(with A. Guzman)

Soft Law as Delegation, 32 Fordham Int’l L.J. 888 (2009)

Federalism and Accountability: State Attorneys General, Regulatory Litigation, and the New Federalism, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 885 (2007) (reprinted in 19 Revista Brasileira de Estudos Constitucionais (2011))

Visiting Teachers and Scholars

Renowned experts from foreign universities and organizations, as well as American scholars, often come to Georgia Law to teach an international course and/or to conduct international research. Below is a list of those who have recently come to Athens.

Harro van Asselt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Kim Van der Borght, University of Hull

Mathieu Cardon, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3

John R. Crook, George Washington University Law School

Peter Huber, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Theodore W. Kassinger, former U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary

Margaret E. McGuinness, Universityof Missouri

Anna Nagaeva, Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation

Elise Poillot, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3

Cesare P.R. Romano, Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law

Dong Xiaobo, Nanjing NormalUniversity

Li Yan, Liaoning University

Min Zhang, Nanjing Agricultural University

Timothy L. Meyer, Assistant Professor of Law

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Recent International Conferences, Colloquia and Lectures

The Future of International Trade: An American Perspective, featuring Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, where issues related to the business aspects of international trade were discussed.

15 Years of TRIPS Implementation: Intellectual Property Protection From a Global Perspective, featuring University of Minnesota Law School Prosser Professor Ruth Okediji, where the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and its effects were explored.

Fallout: The Future of Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation, featuring former U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs and former International Atomic Energy Agency legal adviser Larry D. Johnson, where the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was evaluated and in-depth discussions on the future legal framework for nuclear non-proliferation, balancing nuclear energy and security, and emerging nuclear threats took place.

April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit: Expectations and Realities (follow-up to the Legal Framework for Strengthening Nuclear Security and Combating Nuclear Terrorism Conference in Austria), where the role of the U.N. Security Council’s Resolution 1540 was discussed.

International Human Rights and Climate Change, featuring Yale University Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs Thomas Pogge, where the movement to further incorporate a human rights perspective into talks about climate change was explored.

Legal Framework for Strengthening Nuclear Security and Combating Nuclear Terrorism, which was an advance research workshop where a set of recommendations for the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., was developed.

International Commercial Arbitration: Fifty Years After the New York Convention, featuring international dispute resolution authority Gary Born, where future changes to the area of dispute resolution were evaluated.

The Post-Financial Crisis World Order: Sino-American Relations in an Age of Economic Turmoil, featuring former Solicitor-General of Hong Kong Daniel R. Fung, where the U.S.-China economic and political relationship and how it has been impacted by the global financial crisis were discussed.

Individual Rights in India: a Perspective From the Supreme Court, featuring Supreme Court of India Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, where the chief justice spoke about human rights in his country.

Dean Rusk Center-Willson Center Lecture: Who Runs Who: Does Europe Follow the U.S., or the U.S. Europe, on Major Policy Issues? featuring European Parliament Vice President Diana Wallis, where the need for European politicians to draw upon experiences of the United States for the European Union was addressed.

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Study Abroad and Foreign Internships and Fellowships

Summer Program in Brussels and GenevaParticipants in this four-week, four-credit hour program get a first-hand look at the legal system of the European Union and international trade law practice under the World Trade Organization. Classes are held at the Université catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, and at the Graduate Institute for International Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. This ABA approved program is taught by distinguished professors from Georgia Law and European universities.

In 2011, Carter Chair Michael L. Wells taught Comparative U.S./E.U. Law, and Dean Rusk Center Director C. Donald Johnson taught International Trade Law Practice under the WTO with Joost Pauwelyn, professor and co-director of the Center for Trade and Economic Integration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Summer Program in ChinaStudents study in China’s two largest cities at Tsinghua University in Beijing and at Fudan University in Shanghai during this unique, three-and-one-half week, four-credit hour study abroad program. Approved by the ABA, this offering provides an introduction to the Chinese legal system with an emphasis on commercial and international trade law and intellectual property law. This program also offers some participants the option to remain in the country for a follow up four- to six-week internship with leading international and Chinese law firms.

This program is overseen by Dean Rusk Center Director C. Donald Johnson. Recent Georgia Law faculty teaching in this program includes Hosch Professor Thomas A. Eaton (International Products Liability), Associate Professor Fazal Khan (International Products Liability) and Martin Chair James C. Smith (Real Property Law in a Global Context).

Nothing helps one better understand the culture of another country than actually living there. At Georgia Law, this belief is reflected in a variety of initiatives for international study and work experiences. In recent summers, approximately 20 percent of each Georgia Law first-year class participated in one of the school’s international summer programs.

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Georgia Law at OxfordParticipants live and study in Oxford, England, home of the famed University of Oxford, for 15 weeks during the spring semester of their second or third year of law school. Students enroll in four courses and receive 12 semester hours of credit. Three classes address comparative and international law subjects in a small-group classroom setting. The fourth class is an intensive supervised research tutorial. One traditional course and the tutorial are taught by University of Oxford law faculty. This is one of the few semester-long study abroad opportunities offered by an American law school.

This program is overseen by Cobb Professor David E. Shipley. Professor Lori A. Ringhand served as the U.S. professor in residence during 2011, and she taught Comparative Constitutional Law and British Public Law.

Global Internship ProgramThis summer initiative allows rising second- and third-year law students to complete four- to 12-week legal internships in a variety of settings around the world. In 2011, 45 students were placed in 19 countries, on five continents, with 33 different organizations. Past placements have included: the Human Rights League in Slovakia, the Han Kun Law firm in China, the Center for Economic Law in Belgium, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Canada, the Clorox Company in Argentina, the Dubai Judicial Institute in the United Arab Emirates, Natural Justice in South Africa and PSA Legal Counsellors in India.

This program is overseen by Dean Rusk Center Associate Director María Eugenia Giménez.

Equal Justice Foundation FellowshipsEach summer, several committed public interest law students gain practical experience through Equal Justice Foundation Fellowships. The awards provide grants to law students who engage in public interest legal work in positions that otherwise would not be funded. Recently, some EJF fellowship recipients have channeled their public service work into the field of international law. Placements have included positions at the International Justice Mission in Peru, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in India and Ghana, and Natural Justice in South Africa.

Partial tuition scholarships and other law school funding are available to help students participate in some of Georgia Law’s international programs.

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International Places

At Georgia Law, opportunities to research and teach abroad for our faculty are as important as international study and work experiences for our students. Over the years, the law school has participated in several faculty exchange initiatives with a number of universities, including the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Georgia Law is also a member of the European-American Consortium for Legal Education. Moreover, many of our faculty have served as professors or lecturers at a number of foreign institutions, including:

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway

Jagiellonian University

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Johannes Kepler Universität

London School of Economics and Political Science

L-Università ta Malta

Nanjing Agricultural University

Nanjing Normal University

Peking University

Stockholms Universitet

Universidad del Salvador

Universität Innsbruck

Universität Regensburg

Universität Wien

Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Universiteit Utrecht

Universitetet i Oslo

University of Auckland

University of Bologna

University of Cambridge

University of Oxford

University of Reading

Additionally, Georgia Law faculty members are sought after to present papers on their areas of specialty at various conferences held throughout the globe.

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Law students and faculty at the University of Georgia were among the first to realize the need to chronicle legal issues and developments on the global front. As a result, in 1970, Georgia Law became the 14th school in the nation to publish an international law journal. Published three times a year, the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law strives to provide a preeminent forum for academic discussion on current international topics. To subscribe to this journal, please visit www.law.uga.edu/journals.

Associate Professor Harlan G. Cohen serves as faculty adviser for this publication.

Louis B. Sohn Collection on International Relations

Established nearly 15 years ago, the Louis B. Sohn Collection on International Relations is a treasured asset of the Alexander Campbell King Law Library. Made up primarily of selections from the late scholar’s private holdings, the collection reflects Sohn’s involvement in the formation of the United Nations, his work in the law of the sea and his interests in global peace, international relations and human rights. This rich store of more than 5,400 titles provides a unique resource for specialized research and complements Georgia Law’s strong international law collection, which includes U.N. documents, foreign law and international law periodicals, and treaty series from various organizations.

As counselor to the U.S. Department of State, legal officer to the U.N. Secretariat and a delegate to numerous international treaty and policymaking conventions over the years, the late Louis B. Sohn had a high profile reputation for his roles in international policy analysis and interpretation. He was the inaugural holder of the Woodruff Chair in International Law and served on the Georgia Law faculty for more than one decade.

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Master of Laws Program

Georgia Law offers two Master of Laws degree tracts for qualified and highly motivated individuals who already hold law degrees.

The LL.M. in American Law is designed to introduce foreign lawyers to the major subject areas of U.S. law. Participants in this curriculum spend one year at UGA studying the various aspects of federalism and the common law legal method. They can also specialize in a particular area of U.S. law through elective course selections and a required writing assignment.

The LL.M. in International and Comparative Law for American legal professionals allows participants to spend one semester studying under international law professors at UGA and one semester studying abroad. Candidates for this degree can also participate in one of Georgia Law’s summer study abroad programs with the possibility of completing an international summer internship.

Dean Rusk Center Director C. Donald Johnson oversees LL.M. offerings.

International Courses at Georgia Law

Georgia Law offers a strong international curriculum with an array of courses in both public and private law. Current courses offered include:

Foreign Affairs and National Security

Immigration Law

Institutions of the European Union

International Arbitration

International Business Transactions

International Criminal Law

International Environmental Law

International Human Rights

International Intellectual Property

International Law Colloquium

International Legal Research

International Litigation

International Products Liability

International Taxation

International Trade Law

Laws of War

Public International Law

Selected Problems in International Law

Developing Global Advocacy Skills

Georgia Law’s acclaimed moot court and mock trial program boasts a solid international focus with repeatedly strong showings in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Vienna, Austria. Georgia Law has finished as a quarterfinalist or above in the international tier of the Jessup competition seven times – including winning the world crown in 1990 and having students named the best oralist of the international round in 2001 and 2004. Futhermore, in the Vis contest, Georgia Law has twice placed 17th, out of approximately 250 teams, and was a best brief finalist in 2010.

Another opportunity for developing international courtroom skills for Georgia Law students is provided by a biennial exchange with Grays Inn of London, one of the British Inns of Court and a principal training ground for new barristers.

International advocacy experience is also gained by Georgia Law students through their participation in the Negotiation Challenge, an international competition held in Leipzig, Germany. This two-day tournament involves law and business students from around the globe negotiating with each other in four different commercial transactions. In 2011, Georgia Law captured fourth place in this competition.

Participation in these programs is overseen by Director of Advocacy Kellie Casey Monk (Jessup competition and Grays Inn exchange), Professor Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge (Vis competition) and Business Law and Ethics Program Instructor Carol Morgan (negotiation competitions).

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International Judicial Training Program

Fulfilling part of Georgia Law’s outreach mission is the International Judicial Training Program, which is administered as a partnership between the Dean Rusk Center and the Georgia Institute of Continuing Judicial Education. It is designed to introduce foreign judges and court personnel to the U.S. judicial system allowing participants to gain ideas and insights on possible ways to strengthen their own judicial systems. Topics include: court administration, judicial budgeting, caseload management, alternative dispute resolution, court technology, judicial ethics and professionalism.

Since the IJTP’s inception, more than 1,000 judges and court personnel from Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates have benefited from this program.

Dean Rusk Center Associate Director María Eugenia Giménez oversees this program, and recent Georgia Law faculty presenters include: Associate Dean and University Professor Dan T. Coenen, Criminal Defense Clinic Director Russell C. Gabriel, Assistant Professor Hillel Y. Levin, Assistant Professor Timothy L. Meyer, Civil Clinics Director and Associate Professor Alexander W. Scherr, Cobb Professor David E. Shipley and Carter Chair Michael L. Wells.

The IJTP recently partnered with the Dubai Judicial Institute to conduct on-site instruction for judges, lawyers and court officials in the Middle East.

María Eugenia Giménez, Associate Director of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy

María Eugenia Giménez has a solid reputation for developing and creating international educational offerings and outreach programming at Georgia Law, dating back to 1999.

She currently directs the law school’s International Judicial Training Program, an initiative she helped to design that facilitates capacity-building judicial administration programs.

Additionally, in 2001, Giménez started the Global Internship Program at Georgia Law. This offering allows students to complete four- to 12-week legal internships during the summer in law firms, organizations and universities worldwide. It is currently the largest international internship program offered at UGA.

She has also supervised a five-year faculty exchange program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms with the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina.

Giménez earned her law degree from the Universidad de Mendoza in Argentina. She also obtained two Master of Laws degrees, one from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and the other from UGA. Additionally, she holds an honorary professorship at the Universidad del Salvador, and, in 2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship.

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Alumni Living and Working Abroad

Georgia Law has a rich history of educating future leaders. Our graduates have included 11 governors, more than 35 U.S. and state senators and representatives, and scores of distinguished federal and state justices and judges, prominent attorneys and corporate leaders in the United States. Additionally, our living alumni body totals more than 9,400 graduates who reside and practice law in approximately 40 nations all over the world. Members of both the Juris Doctor and LL.M. classes participate in annual reunions held around the globe and maintain an active website. These activities provide a ready-made network for those working in positions that deal with international matters to gain insights from fellow Georgia Law graduates with relevant expertise.

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