At Harvard Law School, "international" is not just something we teach. It is something we are.
The HLS community includes students from over 75 countries. In 2004-05, hundreds of students worked, studied, and conducted research in more than 30 countries. More than half of the Harvard Law faculty incorporate international and comparative perspectives in their teaching, scholarship, and public service in a significant way. This year, they offer more than 65 HLS courses and reading groups focusing on international, foreign or comparative law. The scores of visitors and scholars from abroad, and some 4,000 alumni who live outside the United States, help make HLS truly international. Our research centers host hundreds of talks, workshops, and conferences with an international focus. And all of this activity draws on the world's foremost academic law library.
At HLS an international perspective is foundational, rather than peripheral, to legal inquiry. And this forms the basis for scholarship and action that have tangible impact in the world. These pages detail how integral international, foreign and comparative legal studies — or ILS — have become to HLS and what a difference they make.
Just as Harvard originated much that is now commonplace in American approaches to international legal education — including specialized courses in international law, a student-edited international law journal, and an international law library — Harvard Law School today is reshaping international legal studies for the 21st century. We invite you to be a part of this exciting enterprise!
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