International Legal Studies Program

VLS students are working for government and nonprofit legal employers in 15 states, Washington, D.C., and The Hague, Netherlands during summer 2022. Read More

The panel, "Russia's Acts in Ukraine: Terrorism, War Crimes or Genocide?", also featured experts in war crimes, state-sponsored terrorism and genocide from the University of Birmingham, Bryant University and the Geneva Graduate Institute. Read More

Salamartin accepted the award at the institute’s 2022 ACE conference for her article, “Balancing Innovation and Protection: Understanding the Landscape of DeFi Regulation,” which she wrote as a VLS student with support from Professor Michael A. Newton. Salamatin is an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright in New York. Read More

Rana is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Algeria. Read More

Seventy-five Vanderbilt Law students are working as legal interns in 15 states, Washington, D.C., and The Hague, Netherlands this summer. The students receive stipend support or earn course credit for their unpaid legal work with federal and state government agencies, in the chambers of federal and state judges, in the… Read More

Wuerth's March 7 Lawfare blog post, "Does Foreign Immunity Apply to Sanctions on Central Banks?", and her Fordham Law Review article, "The Due Process and Other Constitutional Rights of Foreign Nations," are both cited extensively in UVA Law Professor Paul Stephan's April 26 Lawfare blog post, "Giving Russian Assets to Ukraine—Freezing Is Not Seizing." Read More

Smith is one of 14 law students selected for the program, through which they visit Germany and Poland and examine the conduct of lawyers in Nazi-occupied Europe. Read More

Newton has been a senior adviser to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the U.S. State Department. In this interview with Natasha Fatah of CBS News, he talks about how the International Criminal Court will investigate possible war crimes by Russia while the war is ongoing. Read More

Helen Strong Curry International Legal Scholar Read More

Helen Strong Curry International Legal Studies Scholar Read More