Study Abroad

Study Abroad at Fordham Law

Fordham Law’s 13 global semester programs, five yearlong programs, and three summer programs complement the School’s strong international law curriculum offered in New York. Law students can opt to see the world while studying law and gain work experience in one of Fordham Law’s three summer study abroad programs—in Ghana, Ireland, and Korea—as well as in a dozen more programs during the academic year.

Monica Kung ’27 JD was one of these students. During the summer between her 2L and 3L years, she took part in the Fordham-Ghana Summer Law Program, where she took classes on comparative property law, cooperative economics, and counter-narrative storytelling taught by American faculty and professors from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. In addition to completing her coursework, Kung bonded with her fellow students through weekly excursions that took her to food markets in Accra, a cacao farm where she met with members of a worker’s union, and a historic site in the Ivory Coast where enslaved Africans were held before being forced onto ships bound for the Americas.

“The program in Ghana has really shaped my legal outlook. Seeing how legal systems operate there and learning about community-based models of ownership was incredibly impactful. Exploring Ghana’s culture and history was an experience I could have never imagined, and it went above and beyond what I thought coursework could be,” says Kung.

Alice Millerchip ’24 JD, who interned at the general counsel’s office of GS Engineering & Construction after her experience in the Fordham-SKKU Summer Institute in International Law in Seoul, Korea, says that summer changed the way she saw the world. “Since construction wasn’t an area I was familiar with, I was curious to learn about this high-growth industry and how international corporations conduct business overseas, and the kinds of legal issues involved,” says Millerchip. “This was also an incredible opportunity to work in a different country; South Korea is a place I had wanted to visit for a while. Aside from the interesting work I did on arbitration and transactional work, my favorite part was spending time with other Korean interns. I loved learning about their experiences in law and life.”

Graduate Samana Bhatta ’24 JD says that a highlight of her time in Fordham Law’s Belfast/Dublin Summer Program included watching Dean Emeritus John D. Feerick ’58, ’61 LLB receive an honorary doctorate of laws from University College Dublin. “I was interested in learning from Dean Feerick about his experiences in Northern Ireland and conflict resolution,” recalls Bhatta. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn in a classroom full of brilliant minds. It exceeded my expectations.”