International
Law

Your Passport
to the World
Our faculty are deeply involved in international legal issues essential to practicing law in a global economy. An expert in comparative corporate law, Professor Martin Gelter has traveled to the nation of Georgia to help guide the country’s judges through the legal similarities and differences of various corporate structures. Why should the internal goings-on of corporations concern the rest of us? Because, Gelter says, with more and more U.S. workers betting their retirement on the stock market, all of our financial fates depend on the way corporations behave, and sometimes they don’t behave with the noblest of intentions. “When shareholder wealth maximization is the goal, it can come at the exclusion of other goals, like being more mindful of workers,” says Gelter, who has taught in the United States, Austria, Italy, and France. Of his students at Fordham Law, he says, “In my Comparative Corporate Law class, a lot of them write research papers that are so impressive I encourage them to publish.”

International Law Quick Facts
- Fordham Law sponsors a wide range of summer and semester-long study abroad programs that expose students to international law and legal systems around the world. These include the Belfast/Dublin Summer Program, the Fordham-Ghana Summer Law Program, Waseda Law School in Tokyo, the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) program in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Fordham-SKKU Summer Institute of International Law in South Korea, among other global study opportunities.
- The Center on National Security does important work on cutting-edge issues related to national and global security.
- The Fordham Law Alumni Association has 19 international alumni chapters, including ones in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
- Fordham Law also offers five double-degree (year-long) exchanges in China, France, Italy, and Spain that permit students to spend their third year at a host institution. Upon successful completion of a double-degree program, the student will graduate with a J.D. degree from Fordham and a degree from the foreign partner.
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Select International Law Course Offerings*
- Anti-Discrimination Law
- Antitrust – International Cross Border Mergers
- Comparative Corporate Law
- Contemporary Issues as to Nuclear Weapons and International Law
- Corporate Sustainability, Transnational Business, and Human Rights
- Externship: Immigration Law
- Global Capital Markets and Governance
- Global Governance
- Global Governance of AI: EU and US
- Human Rights Law
- Immigration Law
- Immigration Policy and Advocacy Clinic Seminar/Casework
- International Business Transactions
- International Business Transactions: A Practical Perspective
- International Cartel Enforcement: The Globalization of Antitrust
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Commercial Law
- International Disputes and Investigations
- International Human Rights Clinic Seminar/Casework
- International Human Rights Scholarship
- International Law
- International Taxation
- International Trade Law
- Labor Law in International Context
- National Security and Civil Liberties
- Nuclear Weapons and International Law
- Refugee Law and Policy
- Slavery and the Law: Comparative and International Perspectives
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