These offerings include student clinics that prepare students for global legal practice. For example:
- Dean Koh and two other instructors are co-teaching a year-long clinical seminar on domestic civil liberties and human rights cases arising out of post-September 11 U.S. policy.
- The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic offers students an opportunity to work on a wide range of human rights projects. The practical experience provided by these and other clinical courses is supplemented by legal research classes that train students how to find and use international legal materials.
Special curricular offerings have also been available, such as:
- An innovative research seminar offered students an opportunity to compile and edit materials from truth commissions in South Africa and other countries.
- A seminar produced an on-line 194-nation database of laws governing the representation of minors in protective proceedings.
Many students also recruit faculty sponsors and design their own reading groups on international topics, or spend semesters abroad performing research for academic credit under the Law School’s Intensive Semester option.
Through the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), YLS students are eligible to apply for Graduate Certificates of Concentration in the following areas: International Development Studies, International Security Studies, African Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, Modern Middle East Studies.
The certificate programs helps students prepare for the increasingly international and interdisciplinary legal field by developing expertise in law, as well as the diverse interdisciplinary, geographic, and cultural-linguistic approaches associated with the areas of concentration.
For more information about the YCIAS Graduate Certificates of Concentration, please see http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/grad_certificates.htm.