University of Pittsburgh

Center for International Legal Education

3900 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412/ 648-7023 E-mail: cile@pitt.edu

In Memorium : Adolfo Cespedes-Zavaleta  Pitt Law LL.M. 2001

2012-2013 FLAS Fellowship Winners:
Nikolay Markov - Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian
Ngofeen Mpotubwele - Swahili
Sarah Paulsworth - Turkish
Caleb Pittman - Chechua

If you are a Pitt Law student and you want to learn a foreign language, read more about our area studies certificates and the foreign language areas studies fellowships.


Patrick Yingling in Kenya

 

  We proudly announce the names
of the Summer 2012
Nordenberg Fellowship winners:


Mindy CooperPublic & International Law Practice Group, the Hague, the Netherlands

Brian Fraile Institute for European Studies, Brussels, Belgium

Gregory Graham Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany

U.S. Law & Language
July 16- August 2
...a certificate course in which students learn to use English in a legal context and become better prepared for class discussions and assignments in American LL.M programs. More information.


Professor Flechtner's orignial CISG-inspired opera "AiEEEdah!" premiered before a roaring crowd in Vienna, Austria this month. 
We can think of several reasons for the roars. 
Click on the link to see the entire eight-minute opera.
Institute in International
Commercial Law & Arbitration

Zagreb, Croatia  July 15, 2012- August 11, 2012

Join Professors Brand & Babic and other excellent teachers for this "four-week five-credit... introduction to international business transactions, followed by a focused examination of the law governing international sales of goods and international commercial arbitration."

The Center for International Legal Education provides a global approach to legal education. Serving both American and foreign students, Pitt Law alumni, and the local legal community, CILE adds international substance to the study and practice of law in Pittsburgh.

For JD students, CILE offers a certificate program in international and comparative law, languages for lawyers courses, scholarships and other funding opportunities, moot competitions, access to a great variety of study abroad experiences, visiting professors, overseas internships, and global area studies scholarships and opportunities through which to learn about the language and culture of foreign jurisdictions. 

 

For foreign lawyers, CILE offers a personalized Master of Laws (LL.M.) program with internship opportunities, an S.J.D. program for supervised research, a U.S. Law and Language course providing a thorough introduction to legal English and American law and legal education, and opportunities for visiting scholars.  

 

Pitt may be the only law school in the United States to offer language courses designed for law students as part of the law school curriculum (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish).  These language classes are open to the local bar for continuing education credit.  In fact, CILE provides numerous programs and resources reaching legal professionals in many settings including world-renowned programs on the U.N. Sales Convention, the authoritative CILE Studies series published by Oxford University Press, on-site training programs for foreign corporate counsel, and continuing legal education programs

 

The Center has contracted with the Departments of State and Commerce to provide assistance to law faculties in transition countries that include LL.M. training for young faculty, summer school sessions at partner institutions, English for Lawyers courses, expert library development consultations, a Vis International Arbitration Moot consortium, research centers at partner institutions, and conferences with partner law faculties.

 

The Center for International Legal Education welcomes your support for and participation in our programs

Read the ASIL Newsletter's review of The Export of Legal Education: Its Promise and Impact in Transition Countries edited by CILE's Director and Assistant Director.
To order the book see the Ashgate Publishing website or Amazon

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