Center for International Legal Education
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2013 FLAS Award Winners: Nikolay Markov-REES Trevor Krost-REES Erica Kelly-GSC Caleb Pittman-CLAS Kimberly Bennett-CLAS Cristian Minor Sanchez-CLAS The Vis Moot team has returned from Vienna with an Honorable Mention for its Claimant's Memorandum, having competed in the "round of 64" while last year's Pitt team members coached teams from some of our consortium schools. |
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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.
