International Programs

New York Law School is excited to announce its London Summer Study Abroad Program

The program is a cooperative venture of the C. V. Starr Center for International Law, the Center for Financial Services Law, and the Center for Real Estate Law. We are partnering with Queen Mary College (University of London) and the University of Western Australia. New York Law School's Program joins about 200 other ABA-accredited summer programs abroad.

Dates: May 26 - June 16, 2010
Location: Queen Mary College of the University of London
Course Offerings: Derivatives Market Regulaiton Seminar; Global Issues in Real Estate; International Intellectual Property; Law of European Union.
Tuition: $4500 (including a non-refundable $500 deposit)

Application: Click here

Summer Financial Aid Request Form: Click here

In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled, New York Law School will make every effort to place the students who had paid a deposit into a similar program and return all monies collected within twenty days.

Global Aspects of Real Estate Transactions (2 credits)

This course offers a unique opportunity to explore the rewards and challenges of serving as coordinating legal counsel in business transactions in an increasingly global marketplace. The course, based in London and with a study excursion to Paris, will offer an interactive, hands-on simulation approach built around realistic business transaction scenarios and working meetings with leading professionals and experts in their fields. The program is designed around a series of mock client simulations depicting U.S.-based commercial clients with proposed projects (located primarily in the United Kingdom and France) and who have engaged the class participants as coordinating counsel. The simulations will have a particular focus on real estate projects, but with learning points of application in other types of commercial transactions.

International Intellectual Property (2 credits)

This course will survey the principal international intellectual property legal regimes, the implementation of international intellectual property obligations within domestic law. The course will touch on issues such as jurisdiction, national treatment, choice of law, and enforcement of foreign judgements as these issues relate to intellectual property disputes. Finally, the course will examine selected policy issues in the area of international intellectual property, such as enforcement of intellectual property rights in less developed countries, harmonization alternatives, access to knowledge/access to medicines, human rights, sustainable development, cultural rights, and the protection of traditional knowledge.

European Union Law (2 credits)

Introduction to the institutions, constitutional struc-ture, and evolution of the European Union since the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. Explores how European Community law interacts with the law of individual member states and how the various E.U. institutions—the Commissions, the Council, the Parliament, and the Court of Justice—interact with one another in the process of lawmaking in the European Union. Covers to a limited extent the ―four freedoms‖ and may include one practiceoriented area of substantive E.U. law. Focuses on a close reading of the treaty texts and landmark decisions of the European Court of Justice transforming Europe from a customs union into what some argue is a federal system, and draws compar-isons between federalism in the United States and in the European Union. Accessible to students who have no prior knowledge of European law.

Derivatives Market Regulation (2 credits)

This course provides the student with an introduction to the law governing the derivatives markets. The primary focus is on the regulated futures and options on futures markets, but consideration is given to the over-the-counter market in derivatives including the swap and forward markets. Topics include the mechanics of trading in the futures and other derivatives markets, the use of the derivatives markets for hedging, speculation and price discovery, the organization and regulation of contract markets and their members, the regulation of futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators.

For more information, please contact Lloyd Bonfield:

T: 212-431-2822
F: 212-431-1830
E: lbonfield@nyls.edu
 

Summer Abroad Programs and Guidelines at New York Law School

New York Law School permits students in good academic standing to take courses and earn academic credits only through American Bar Association-approved summer abroad programs.

Listing of Summer Programs:

• Listings of ABA-approved summer abroad programs (with brief descriptions of each program) are available in alphabetical order by country name: A through C / D through F / G through L, and M through Z.
• For the original links to ABA-approved summer abroad programs (which don't contain brief descriptions of the programs), please visit the ABA study abroad homepage.

Summer Abroad Guidelines:

• The Center for International Law does not handle the logistics for study abroad.
• Instead, students must obtain permission from the Office of Academic Affairs (2nd Floor of the "A" building) before attending a summer abroad program. All courses must also be approved in advance. Please visit the Office of Academic Affairs (2nd Floor of the "A" Building) to fill out a permission form. That office has also posted a list of frequently asked questions (and answers) concerning study abroad.
• New York Law School will transfer up to six credits from a summer abroad program and apply them towards the 86 credits needed for graduation, provided that the grade received was a "C" or higher. Students will receive credit only, since New York Law School does not accept or transfer the grades received.
• Please note that credit will be given for only one summer abroad program. Furthermore, students should be aware that, generally, residence credit will not be awarded for a summer abroad program and, therefore, students may not use such programs to accelerate their date of graduation. (Resident credit is awarded only for those programs in which the in-class component of the program is at least eight weeks long.)