SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law

Please join the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL) on Friday, April 12 at 11AM in 768 for our final CICL Distinguished International Speaker Series event of this semester. Askan Deutsch, Attorney at law and Partner at FPS Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB will present on "Intellectual Property in Germany." Askan Deutsch will provide an overview of intellectual property rights in Germany, and will cover relevant practical insights from his twenty-two years of legal experience.

Please join CICL on Thursday, April 11 at 12PM in 768 for our next CICL Distinguished International Speaker Series event and the official SLU LAW Atlas Week event. Kristine Walentik and Lamees Horani from the St. Francis Community Services, Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry will present on "Five Hundred Miles: The Long Journey to Immigration Court." They will focus their presentation on immigration court and the challenges respondents and attorneys face going through the immigration process.

Please join CICL for an info session on the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition at 12PM on Monday, March 25, in room 1020. The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is the world’s largest moot court competition. For more information on the competition, please see the following link: https://jessup.ilsa.org

Today is the 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid application deadline! Apply now to save your spot in the summer law program. For more information and for the application, please see the following link:
https://studyabroadprograms.slu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10061

Please join CICL at 12PM on Tuesday, March 19 in 1248 for the 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid Meet & Greet Student Lunch. This event is open to all registered Madrid Program students. We hope to see you there!

The 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid Application deadline is on Monday, March 18. Please see the following link for information on the program and how to sign up, https://studyabroadprograms.slu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10061

Join the Asian American Law Student Association (AALSA) and the International Law Students Association (ILSA) on Wednesday, February 21 at noon for a special celebration of the Lunar New Year!

Please join us on Monday, February 19 at 1PM in 774 to observe SLU LAW's Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team argue their final oral arguments before the Regional Competition next week.

Please join the Center for International and Comparative Law on Tuesday, February 20 at 12:00 p.m. in Scott Hall 1032 for a CICL Distinguished International Speaker Session featuring Tyler Winn (SLU LAW '16), Global Head of Litigation, IP, and Data Privacy at ABInBev. Mr. Winn will discuss the key legal issues when launching multi-national marketing programs, considerations for utilizing protections under international tax treaties, and his journey from SLU LAW into the international corporate legal world.

SLU LAW had a wonderful meeting with Dr. Hugues Kenfack, the president of l’Université Toulouse Capitole this morning. SLU LAW and l’Université Toulouse Capitole have a long-standing relationship and we look forward to exploring new ways to strengthen our ties.

The 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid application is now live! To apply, please see the following link to the application: https://studyabroadprograms.slu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10061

Students who apply by the early application deadline of January 26, 2024, will receive a $300 discount on tuition.

We are offering an excellent selection of courses this summer. Students may earn 4-6 credits during the program.

The Law of Global Trade and Investment (2 credits)
Prof. Constance Wagner

Negotiating International Business Transactions (Experiential learning credit, 1 credit)
Prof. Carol Needham

International Sale of Goods (1 credit)
Prof. Michael Korybut

European Human Rights Law (2 credits)
Prof. Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta

Intro to Civil Law (1 credit)
Prof. Javier Martinez Torron

Creating Rule of Law in Eastern Europe: Threat of Authoritarianism and Nationalism (1 credit)
Prof. Lorena Bachmaier Winter

Programs > Office of International Services - Study Abroad Your browser does not support JavaScript, or it is currently disabled. This site requires JavaScript support to run properly.

CICL Faculty and Student Highlight: On October 16, 2023, Saint Louis University law students Lily Iler (3L) and Sydney Rempe (3L), traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, alongside Professor Lauren Bartlett, to represent the Human Rights at Home Litigation Clinic at SLU Law. They attended a review by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of compliance by the United States with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

CICL Faculty Highlight: SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law faculty members, Prof. Henry Ordower and Prof. Kerrin Kowach spoke at the 40th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, held at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (September 3-10, 2023).

Join CICL today for our International Internship Resume Workshop at 12PM in 905.

Professor Constance Wagner, the director of the SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law, served as the co-editor for “A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers” published this year by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law.

Professor Wagner Publishes Book on Human Rights Due Diligence Professor Wagner Publishes Book on Human Rights Due Diligence Professor Constance Wagner, the director of the SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law, served as the co-editor for “A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers” published this year by the American Bar Association,...

Join the Center for International & Comparative Law at noon in room 905 on Tuesday, November 7 for our second 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid Info Session. The session will go into a detailed review our program, international internship opportunities, and important details about studying and living abroad in beautiful Madrid, Spain.

Please join the Center for International and Comparative Law on Wednesday, October 11 at 12:00 p.m. in Scott Hall 1032 for our CICL Distinguished International Speaker Event featuring international human rights attorney Mr. Davor Sopf. Mr. Davor Sopf, Senior Learning Development Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and SLU Law alumnus, will discuss how the UNHCR works to protect human rights in the context of displacement, statelessness, and global migration initiatives.

Please join us next Tuesday, October 3 for our first Madrid Info Session for the 2024 Summer Law Program in Madrid!

Join us tomorrow at Noon in room 1166 for ILSA’s first meeting of the year!

Professor Afonso Seixas-Nunes sponsored a tour of Bernabéu, the home of Real Madrid for the 2023 Summer Law Program in Madrid students. Prof. Seixas-Nunes is teaching "Cybertechnology and International Law" in the Summer Law Program this summer.

The group toured the Bernabéu museum, which currently houses the club's legendary haul of silverware. The museum displays Real Madrid's spoils from conquests in the Spanish first division, Copa del Rey, and European competitions like the Champion's League. After the tour, Father Afonso and a friend--a local madrileño and supporting member of Real Madrid--took the students to a local restaurant for dinner.

A week and half later, a few of the students returned to the Bernabéu to watch the last home game of Real Madrid's season. They were able to witness the last appearance and goal of legendary striker Karim Benzema's 14-year career at Real Madrid.

The world is focused on events in Russia. CICL's Dr. Monica Eppinger made some suggestions in 2015 that sound prescient today.
-- After the invasion of Crimea and the war in southeastern Ukraine started in 2014, Western analysts reverted to thinking in terms of geopolitics and Kremlinology. To try to understand what's going on, geopolitics looks to the capitals of the "great powers" and concentrates on their "Great Games" and grand schemes.
-- Taking a lesson from history, in 2015, Dr. Eppinger urged instead that we should be looking to the margins, particularly to Russia's southwestern border with Ukraine and the territories of southeastern Ukraine where fighting was going on. Our goal should be to see what is motivating people there and to understand what they think "Russia" was, is, or should be.
-- According to Dr. Eppinger, history shows that ideas and actions from that "periphery" often profoundly shape bigger movements at the "center." The people at the "periphery" project their ideas of what "Russia" is back on to the center; the aspirations of the hinterlands form a critique or set of goals for what the capital should be doing. Writing in 2015, she said Moscow ignores them at its own peril.

And here we are in 2023: fighters from the battlefields of southeastern Ukraine are now marching from southwestern Russia towards Moscow to press for their vision of what "Russia" is or should be. However these events turn out, the ideas and motivations of people from that periphery will shape movements in the center and beyond.
For more information, follow the following link to Prof. Eppinger's article:

The Projection Room A virulent nationalism is currently being injected along Russia's newly blurred southwestern border with Eastern Ukraine. As tempting as it my be to slip back into Cold War rhetorics, Monica Eppinger warns us that the old framework and distant gaze of geopolitics are prone to missing much. This essa...

Students in our 2023 SLU LAW Summer Law Program in Madrid visited the Spanish Constitutional Court with Professor Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta. Prof. Ignacio Borrajo Iniesta is a senior staff attorney at the Constitutional Court of Spain in Madrid. He also teaches at the University Institute Ortega y Gasset and in the SLU LAW Madrid Program.

In addition to enjoying a robust academic curriculum, SLU LAW Madrid Program students also had the opportunity to visit the Madrid office of Squire Patton Boggs to learn more about the way law is practiced in Spain.

Want a new angle to understand the war in Ukraine and what lies behind it? Professor Monica Eppinger has a new article in which she takes a comparative law approach to look at sovereignty from Russian and Ukrainian perspectives. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/724016?fbclid=IwAR3GyqJXiORLqNYMgUrNvt0cJsIAlyZEd4aiiE1yrofhHcPh83eEW9Fmbns

From “limited sovereignty” to decolonization in Ukraine | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 12, No 3 This article takes up the loaded topic of “Russia in the world of Ukraine.” Now an object of official Russia’s aggressive attention, contemporary Ukraine presents a pressing case for reconsidering colonialism which, I propose, requires reconceptualizing sovereignty. I compare descriptions of s...

The SLU LAW Center for International and Comparative Law is proud to host two events, featuring esteemed keynotes in April. Both day-long programs include CLE credit.

On Wednesday, April 5, we are hosting a workshop on international refugee law, featuring keynotes by Prof. James Hathaway and Prof. Petra Molnar. For more information on the program and speakers, please see the following link: https://www.slu.edu/law/international/notable-events.php

On Friday, April 14, CICL is hosting a symposium on international criminal law, featuring keynotes by Dr. Steven Hill and by Prof. Kevin J. Heller. For more information on the program and speakers, please see the following link: https://www.slu.edu/law/international/symposia.php

TODAY is the 2023 Summer Law Program in Madrid application deadline! For more information on the program and how to apply, please see the following link: https://studyabroadprograms.slu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10061

For questions, email Prof. Ira H. Trako at [email protected].

Join CICL at 12PM on Monday, February 27 in 1030 for a Noon Q&A with Prof. Eppinger about the war in Ukraine, legal and diplomatic aspects, current developments, justice and the prospects for peace.

Join us on Wednesday, January 11 at 12PM in 1030 for the 2023 Summer Law Program in Madrid International Internship Workshop to learn how to apply and prepare for an international internship after the Summer Law Program in Madrid.

Please join CICL on Wednesday, November 2 at 12PM in room 1030 for our 2023 Madrid Program Info Session. We will discuss some of the information that we covered during the first info session and go into greater detail about studying abroad in Madrid. This is our last info session of the semester so you do not want to miss it!

Please join the Office of Career Services and the Center for International and Comparative Law on Thursday, October 13 at 12PM in room 1066 for an international resume workshop. This workshop is ideal for students interested in internationalizing their resume. We will discuss ways to improve your resume, opportunities to intern abroad after the Summer Law Program in Madrid, and the various ways to internationalize your legal career after graduation.