International Opportunities
A Global Network
Fordham Law’s international programs put students face-to-face with grassroots partners in the United States and across the globe to work on real-world human rights programs. Students engage with global companies, collaborate with governmental agencies, participate in extensive human rights initiatives, and learn from distinguished foreign professors through study abroad programs from Dublin to Shanghai. Along the way, they garner internships and externships with multinational corporations, law firms, courts, government offices, and human rights organizations.


Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Engage in real-world human rights lawyering in the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic. You’ll learn to be a strategic, reflective, and creative advocate for social justice through programs and partnerships with grassroots organizations around the world.
Focus on international legal responses to racism around the world—including by engaging UN mechanisms—in the Global Anti-Racism Clinic, co-hosted by the Leitner Center and the Center on Race, Law and Justice. Through the International Cooperation and Justice Clinic, you’ll get exposed to the realities and challenges of international cooperation by working on hands-on projects in partnership with governmental institutions, NGOs, and advocacy organizations.
Examine the key role that corporations play in the field of human rights through the Corporate Social Responsibility Program. You’ll get the grounding for work on business and human rights issues through the Corporate Responsibility Clinic, which explores these issues in partnership with business and non-governmental agencies.
The Sustainable Development Legal Initiative (SDLI) serves as the Center’s focal point in promoting international sustainable development, using the law to promote environmentally sound growth and poverty eradication.
Hear human rights experts discuss their work throughout the year as part of the Center’s weekly Human Rights Speaker Series as leading advocates and scholars join Fordham students for dynamic conversations.
Gain valuable experience with a Leitner Summer Fellowship grant to work with international human rights organizations full-time for 10 weeks during the summer.
Get your foot in the door after graduation with the James E. Tolan Human Rights Fellowship, which awards one year of postgraduate funding for a Fordham Law graduate to work on a program designed in conjunction with an international human rights organization.
International Study Opportunities
Summer Programs
In Fordham Law’s summer programs, you’ll complete six credits of coursework and have the opportunity for externship and internship placements in prominent national courts, as well as in distinguished foreign law firms and non-governmental organizations.
Belfast/Dublin Summer Program
law.fordham.edu/ireland
Fordham-SKKU Summer Institute of International Law
law.fordham.edu/korea
Fordham-Ghana Summer Law Program
law.fordham.edu/ghana
Double-Degree Programs
You also have the option of applying to one of the Law School’s five international double-degree programs with prestigious universities in China, France, Italy, and Spain. In three years—including a year of foreign study—you can earn your J.D. from Fordham and a master’s from a participating foreign university.
Fudan Law School (Shanghai)
Université Paris I
Université Paris II
Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid)
LUISS Guido Carli (Rome)
Semester Abroad Programs
Our study abroad programs complement and enhance the many international law courses offered on campus in New York City.
Bocconi School of Law (Milan)
Bucerius Law School (Hamburg)
China University of Politics and Law (Beijing)
East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai)
ESADE (Barcelona)
European University Institute (Florence)
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo, Brazil)
Jindal Global Law School (Delhi)
National Taiwan University (Taipei)
Tel Aviv University
University of Amsterdam
University of Lucerne
University of Padova (Padova, Italy)
Waseda Law School (Tokyo)


