From Vanderbilt in Venice—Vanderbilt’s summer international law immersive experience in Venice, Italy—to extracurricular activities like the Jessup Moot Court team or Vanderbilt Transnational Journal, ILSP gives students room to design their own education in international law. Vanderbilt will help you tailor your professional horizons to align with your experiences, goals, and intellectual interests.
Vanderbilt’s four-week international law summer intensive in Venice, Italy. Vanderbilt in Venice offers students six credits, including two of the six experiential credits required for graduation by the ABA.
A semester-long course focusing on student projects with real world impact. Past projects have included support for internationalized and ad hoc tribunals, ICC prosecutions, Iraqi prosecutions of ISIS, various U.N. agencies and governments, and many more. Students are currently supporting two different State Department grants, assisting judges and prosecutors in Ukraine, legislators in several countries, litigation in the International Court of Justice, ongoing treaty discussions, and human rights cases in international and domestic forums.
Vanderbilt’s award-winning international moot court team selected to compete with other law schools on a hypothetical problem in international law.
Vanderbilt’s dedicated journal focusing on international and transnational legal scholarship, which serves as one of the world’s most prominent and widely cited legal journals devoted to current and emerging issues of comparative and international law. Our journal is currently the 5th ranked student-led international law journal in the United States, according to the 2023 W&L Law Journal Rankings.
ILSP's internship and externship programs allow Vanderbilt students to gain substantial experience working alongside legal professionals on a range of important international law projects in organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Coordinated by Professor Michael Newton, the program places students in international courts, international institutions, offices of the U.S. government, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
As part of ILSP, Vanderbilt students frequently participate in opportunities directly related to client support that lead directly to externship opportunities or create contacts that later lead to employment opportunities.
Connect with the International Legal Studies Program coordinator.