International and comparative law and globalization
This specialization is ideal for students who want to pursue a career with a non-governmental or inter-governmental organization, a national government, or an international court. Students will choose twelve credits hours of core courses that cover topics in comparative law such as the treatment of religion, the legal system, and political branches in a variety of states; in areas of international law, including human rights, environmental, and criminal law; and in legal development, such as economic and social inequality, constitutional design, and human rights. Attorneys specializing in the field work for non-governmental organizations, human rights groups, and international courts, as well as consultants on constitutional reform, and advisors on issues of terrorism, security, and international law.
Courses (choose at least 12 credits)
- After Atrocities: Processes of Post-Conflict Justice
- Business and Human Rights
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law: Comparative Legal Systems
- Comparative Law: Constitutional Design and the Economy
- Comparative Law: Islam and Human Rights
- Comparative Law: Regulating Religion
- Comparative Law: South Asian Constitutionalism
- Constitutional Design in Multiethnic Societies
- Constitutionalism in the Middle East
- Cybersecurity Law
- Human Rights
- Immigration Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Intellectual Property
- International Law
- International Securities Regulation
- International Trade
- National and Homeland Security Law
- Seminar in Comparative Inequality
- Seminar in Comparative Law: Islamic Law
- Seminar in Constitutional Design: Rights, Gender, and States of Emergency
- Seminar in Globalization
- Seminar in International Law: Drone Law
- Seminar in Law and Development
- Seminar in Law and Society of China
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