Center for Global Legal Studies
CGLS Sponsored Events in 2010
Study Abroad - The China Program May 23 to June 11, 2010
Study Abroad - The Nice Program June 27 to July 23, 2010
Torture In and By the United States
Jan. 29, 2010
See the Conference on Video
Trans-Atlantic Cooperation in the Fight Against Terrorism
Friday, February 12
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun, Director
The Center for Global Legal Studies was established to examine the legal implications of the globalization of the world economy and the gradual erosion of national sovereignty in areas as diverse as business, the environment, criminal justice and human rights. These are trends that are transforming the foundational principles of national legal systems dating from the 17th century.
The presence of the Center at Thomas Jefferson reflects San Diego's location at the southern and western borders of the continental United States. San Diego sits adjacent to the busiest border crossing in the world and has become a leading example of the regional economic integration that typifies the globalization of the economy.
The Center for Global Legal Studies prepares students for careers in international law, but perhaps more importantly it also prepares them to address the increasingly common international dimension of more traditional areas of practice. Examples of the latter range from the business lawyer whose client has a foreign subsidiary or purchaser, to the criminal prosecutor seeking extradition of an accused, to the civil litigant who must conduct discovery in a foreign country or appear before an international arbitral tribunal.
View Professor Tiefenbrun's Profile webpage.
Important Documents/Forms:
- Certificate Requirements
- Detailed Requirements and Courses
- Enrollment Form
- Certificate Application Form
- Event Attendance Log
- Hangzhou, China Summer Abroad Program
- Nice, France Study Abroad Program
Courses
- Advanced Internet Law
- American Indian Law
- American Legal History
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Family Law
- Comparative Law
- Comparative Law, Medicine & Bioethics
- Conflict of Laws
- eCommerce
- European Union Law
- Global Workplace Law
- Immigration Law
- International Business Transaction
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Intellectual Property
- International Investment Law & Arbitration
- International Issues in U.S. Death Penalty Law
- International Law
- International Tax
- Internet Law
- Jurisprudence
- Mandarin Chinese for Lawyers
- National Security Law
- Military Justice
- Refugee & Asylum Law
- Spanish for Legal Professionals
- Women & International Human Rights Law
Faculty Research
Current or recent faculty research relating to the work of the Center for Global Legal Studies includes topics such as:
- environmental damage resulting from the war in Yugoslavia
- legal protection of foreign investment in Third World countries
- war crimes tribunals
- piracy of intellectual property in China and the former Soviet Union
- the legality of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia
- tax policy under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- the role of foreign investment in economic development
- environmental harm to international waterways
- Sex Trafficking
- International Law and Terrorism
Click here to view the faculty scholarship
The Center's Library Collection
New titles were added to the Center's collection every month.
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