Welcome to the Center for International and Comparative Programs

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law’s emphasis on comparative and international law has generated curricular innovation and numerous programs offering students and faculty opportunities to study and develop expertise in this growing field.

Loyola’s Summer Legal Studies programs are an important component of Loyola College of Law’s international focus. Loyola currently sponsors established foreign programs in six foreign countries:

• Austria in cooperation with the University of Vienna Law School
• Brazil in cooperation with the University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law
• Costa Rica in cooperation with the University of Costa Rica Law School
• Spetses, Greece 
• Hungary in cooperation with the Eötvös Loránd University School of Law in Budapest
• Mexico in cooperation with the Supreme Court of Morelos and the Cuernavaca Language School
• Russia in cooperation with Moscow State University

These sessions offer a broad selection of comparative and international law courses with particular emphasis on those relevant to the host countries’ legal systems and cultures. In summer 2012, 174 students from throughout the U.S. and the world participated in these programs. Loyola’s foreign summer programs are open to students in good standing from any accredited law school.

In addition to its many Summer Legal Studies programs the College of Law now annually sponsors:

• A one-week instructional field study in Europe that tours the leading institutions of and interacts with the judges and lawyers of the European Union: Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Paris;
• A 8-day field study which explores "Legal History and Current Legal Events in Turkey and Greece," visiting Istanbul, Kusadasi, and Ephesus in Turkey, and the Island of Samos and Athens in Greece.
• The Annual Visiting Michaelle Pitard Wynne program that sponsors a distinguished foreign scholar each year to offer a special seminar in current issues of international law;
• The VIS International Arbitration Moot competition in Vienna, Austria involving Loyola faculty and a team of Loyola students; and
• Regular visits of law faculty between Loyola and many foreign institutions.
   

This burgeoning activity produces many opportunities for the study of international and comparative law, including frequent scholarly events, such as public addresses and faculty colloquia, and many faculty publications in comparative and international law journals.