International Career Opportunities for J.D Students
Publications Available in the Career Services Library
ABA Guide to Foreign Law Firms, 3rd Edition by James Sikenat and William Hannary (1999, American Bar Association)
"Designed for all lawyers with clients doing business in foreign countries, the new Fourth Edition of the ABA Guide to Foreign Law Firms assists lawyers in identifying qualified legal counsel in more than 130 foreign jurisdictions, with particular emphasis on countries that are emerging as major centers for international commercial transactions."
Careers in International Law, 2nd Edition by Mark Janis and Salli Swartz (2001, American Bar Association)
"Each chapter features tips on international career planning and are written by experts in their respective fields. It includes regional perspectives in a manner that demystifies the question "How do I get from here to there." Its authors cover public and private career options, providing practice specific tips in areas such as arbitration, criminal law, and trade. "
Internships in International Affairs (2001, Career Education Institutes)
"This resource is the only resource of its kind providing students with the opportunity to gain experience in the field of international affairs. Included are international policy organizations, government agencies, international trade organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGO's), relief organizations and international organizations. Internships available both in the U.S. and abroad are included."
International Career Employment Weekly Newspaper (Publisher: International Career Employment Center)
International Opportunities Resource Guide (1999, National Association for Law Placement)
Careers in International Law (1999, American Society of International Law)
Study Abroad Opportunities
Studying law outside the US is an exciting opportunity available to qualifying Chicago-Kent College of Law Students. Spending a summer or a semester in another country is not only an eye opening experience but also excellent preparation for understanding today’s globalized legal marketplace. The Office of International Law and Policy offers a variety of programs in different countries to meet the needs of all current J.D. students. Information on each of these programs can be found here.
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U.S. Foreign Service Careers: The Foreign Service Officer Exam is offered throughout the year and is a multistep process to become an American diplomat. Candidates for the Foreign Service take the Foreign Service Officer Test, a online written test testing your knowledge of U.S. and world affairs. Those who pass the Foreign Service Written Exam (approximately 10 percent) proceed to the Foreign Service Oral Assessment, which is administered in person in select major cities throughout the United States. Passage rates for the Oral Assessment were 20 percent in 2006.
Foreign Commercial Service: The United States Commercial Service (USCS) is the trade promotion arm of the International Trade Administration within the United States Department of Commerce. The mission of the USCS is to promote the export of goods and services from the United States, particularly by small and medium-sized businesses; to represent U.S. business interests internationally; and to help U.S. businesses find qualified international partners. U.S. Commercial Service trade specialists work in 107 U.S. cities and in more than 80 countries worldwide. The exam is offered every 2 years. The next exam will be offered at the start of Fiscal year 2010 which begins October 1, 2009.
United Nations Careers:The UN National Competitive Recruitment Examinations (NCRE) is held on a yearly basis in countries that are selected on the basis of their representation in the Secretariat. Every year, the Organization targets the nationals of Member States that are not adequately represented in the Secretariat for recruitment through competitive examinations. The purpose of these examinations is to establish rosters of candidates to fill positions at the P2 (Junior Professional) level within a variety of fields. The 2009 deadline was October 31, 2008. For more information on deadlines, click here.
Central Intelligence Agency:The CIA is an independent agency responsible for providing global intelligence on the ever-changing political, social, economic, technological, and military environment. Careers are available with the Directorate of Intelligence, National Clandestine Service, Directorate of Science and Technology, Directorate of Support, Public Affairs Office, and the Office of the General Counsel.
American Bar Association Section on International Law Internship Program:The Section will act as a liaison between foreign law firms and interested student by listing on this ABA website lists of law firms that have agreed to host potential interns. The site enables students to contact firms about available internships.
Center for International Legal Studies: The Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) is a non-profit research, training, and law publication institute headquartered in Salzburg, Austria. CILS purpose is to promote the dissemination of information among members of the international legal community, through research and publication projects, post-graduate and professional training programs, and academic seminars, professional symposia and continuing legal education conferences.
Chicago Council on Global Affairs: Founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the organization is a leading independent, nonpartisan organization committed to influencing the discourse on global issues through contributions to opinion and policy formation, leadership dialogue, and public learning.
Chicago-Kent Global Law and Policy Initiative: The GLAPI is designed to bring together the Chicago-Kent faculty, the Chicago community, and Chicago-Kent students who have an active interest in broadening their involvement in international law. In recent decades a wide range of challenging new legal issues have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and other parts of the world. Since 1997, the Initiative has spearheaded programs designed to promote a better understanding of the evolving global environment and to strengthen democratic institutions wherever they may be found.
PSLawNet: PSLawNet website is an online clearinghouse for law students and lawyers to connect with public interest opportunities worldwide. Registration is free for students.
Foreign Language Resources
Chicago-Kent College of Law and Language Loop, LLC have partnered to offer foreign language courses at the Downtown Campus during the Fall and Spring semesters. All courses are taught by instructors from Language Loop, LLC. Past language courses included: Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Italian, and Japanese. Courses met once a week, 90 minutes per lesson, for 10 weeks.
Pricing and course schedules are available at the Office of International Law and Policy at the beginning of the semester. For more information about foreign language courses through Language Loop, LLC click here.
Chicago-Kent Alumni Working in the International Field
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Current Chicago-Kent Students who have Worked in the International Field
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Law School Faculty with International Experience
Professor Bernadette Atuahene (batuahene@kentlaw.edu) received her J.D. in 2002 from Yale Law School; an M.P.A. in 2002 from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; and a B.A. in 1997 (magna cum laude), from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Atuahene has varied experiences in the field of law and international development. She has worked as a legal consultant for the World Bank and as a human rights investigator for the Center for Economic and Social Rights, where she received Amnesty International’s Patrick Stewart Human Rights Award for her work with human rights organizations throughout South America.
Professor Atuahene was in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar. She served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, working for Justices Madala and Ngcobo. She then practiced as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, where she focused on sovereign debt and real estate transactions.
Professor Atuahene joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2005. Broadly, her research deals with the confiscation and restitution of property. She teaches Law, Policy and International Development; Property; and International Business Transactions.
Professor Bartram Brown (bbrown@kentlaw.edu) received his B.A. from Harvard University, his J.D. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. At Columbia, he was managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He has published a book on the law and politics of the World Bank, as well as articles on international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal tribunals, and international trade law.
Professor Brown is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI). He served as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and participated in the 1998 Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court as Legal Advisor to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1999 and 2000, he was a public member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He has recently led or participated in human rights fact-finding missions to several countries including Haiti, Bahrain and Malawi.
Professor Sungjoon Cho (scho1@kentlaw.edu) an authority on international economic law teaches courses in international law, international trade law, international business transactions and comparative law. He earned his LL.B. from Seoul National University in 1989, his M.P.A. degree from Seoul National University in 1994 and his LL.M. in international economic law from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997. In 2002, he received his S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree from Harvard Law School.
In June 2008, Professor Cho was appointed nonresident counselor to the South Korean government’s Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has held appointments as a Clark Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Research Fellow with Harvard Law School's East Asian Legal Studies Program, and an Emil Noël Fellow at New York University Law School. He has taught at the University of San Diego (Summer Program in Mexico), the Institute of European Studies of Macau, Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), and KDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea). From 1994 to 1996, before coming to the United States, Professor Cho represented the government of the Republic of Korea in negotiations under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He is a member of the bar of the state of New York. He also holds a license to practice law in Korea.
Professor David Gerber (dgerber@kentlaw.edu) works in the areas of comparative and international law. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College, a master’s degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Chicago. He was formerly associated with the Frankfurt, Germany, law firm of Peltzer and Riesenkampff and the New York law firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf.
Professor Gerber has taught law at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University and Washington University in the United States, as well as at the University of Stockholm and the University of Uppsala in Sweden and at the University of Freiburg and the University of Munich in Germany. He also spent a year working with the Institute of International and Comparative Law at the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. His book, Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 (paperback 2001).
Assistant Dean Lydia Lazar (llazar@kentlaw.edu) is responsible for the LL.M. Programs in International and Comparative Law, International Intellectual Property Law and Financial Services Law, as well as the Global Law and Policy Initiative. She teaches Introduction to the American Legal System to all LL.M. students. Before joining Chicago-Kent as assistant dean, Lazar worked as an attorney in the corporate and securities group at Sachnoff & Weaver Ltd.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Lazar worked as a consultant on strategic communications issues for several foundations, and in an executive capacity with Waste Management International (based in London) and with the City of New York's Department of General Services, Division of Public Structures.
Dean Lazar received her A.B. in International Relations from Dartmouth College, her MA in geography from Columbia University, and her J.D. with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Professor Edward Harris (eharris@kentlaw.edu) joined Chicago-Kent in 2004 after working as an associate for Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner PC, where he concentrated on international business transactions, primarily in general corporate and intellectual property matters.
He received a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and a J.D. with high honors from Chicago-Kent in 2001, where he also earned a certificate in The Program in International and Comparative Law. Professor Harris has clerked for the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Environmental Bureau, and the United States Agency for International Development. He has also served as a legal extern for Federal Magistrate Judge Edward A. Bobrick.
Professor Harris’ current research interests include international intellectual property issues and issues concerning private actors under international law. He also recently co-authored an article suggesting certain reforms to U.S. securities laws that will be published in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.
Professor Steven Harris (sharris@kentlaw.edu) came to Chicago-Kent from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a professor from 1984-1996. He specializes in commercial and bankruptcy law and has published widely in scholarly journals, including the Cornell Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. He also is the co-author of Cases, Problems, and Materials on Security Interests in Personal Property published by Foundation and the author of a chapter in Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Code Series titled “Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment.” An active participant in law reform efforts, Professor Harris serves on the United States delegation to the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and as the reporter for the Joint Review Committee on Uniform Commercial Code Article 9. He recently served on and the Uniform Law Commissioners Committee to Harmonize North American Law with Regard to the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade Convention and was a reporter to the Drafting Committee to revise Uniform Commercial Code Article 9.
Professor Harris earned his bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of Chicago. He entered full-time teaching in 1978, after a judicial clerkship and several years of practicing law in Chicago. He has taught on the faculty of Wayne State University Law School and as a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. Professor Harris has taught Business Contracts as part of Chicago-Kent’s Overseas Training Program in China, and in. In 1990-91, he was a scholar in residence at Sidley & Austin.
Professor Harris is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Professor Philip Hablutzel (phablutz@kentlaw.edu) teaches courses in corporations, securities regulation, banking law, international commercial arbitration and international capital markets. From 1985 until 1996, he was Director of the Graduate Program in Financial Services Law. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University and master’s and law degrees from the University of Chicago. Before joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1971, he served as a research attorney with the American Bar Foundation. He is also a co-author of the Model Business Corporation Act Annotated (3 vols.) (1971). His book International Banking Law (2 vols.) was published in 1994.
During the fall of 1992, Professor Hablutzel taught in England as part of the London Law Consortium. He was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Germany, for the spring and summer of 1993. In the summer of 2008, he taught at the University of Augsburg, Germany. He has also taught or lectured at Buenos Aires, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Bangkok and Kiev. He has been a competition arbitrator for the annual Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna since 2000 and is a member of the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association. During 1993-94, he served as chair of the Section of Commercial, Banking and Bankruptcy Law of the Illinois State Bar Association and during 2009-2010 he is chair of the ISBA's Section of Corporation, Securites, and Business Law. He has also served as chair of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Corporation Law and as chair of the American Bar Association Committee on the Adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
Since 2004, he has been a public member of the Business Conduct Committee of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Since 2005, he has been Director of Kent's Institute of Illinois Business Law.
Professor Sarah Harding (sharding@kentlaw.edu) received her B.A. (with honors) from McGill University and a LL.B. from Dalhousie Law School, Canada. While at Dalhousie she was Chair of the Moot Court Society and won numerous awards and scholarships for her writing and academic achievement. In 1989, she was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and went on to obtain a B.C.L. from Oxford University and an LL.M. from Yale Law School, where she was submissions editor for the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
Professor Harding teaches torts, property, legal philosophy and comparative constitutional law. Her scholarly interests include comparative constitutional law, property law and the legal treatment of cultural objects.
Professor Henry H. Perritt, Jr. (hperritt@kentlaw.edu) directs Chicago-Kent's Program in Financial Services Law. He served as Chicago-Kent's dean from 1997-2002 and was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Tenth District of Illinois in 2002. Throughout his academic career, Perritt has made it possible for groups of law and engineering students to work together in using the Internet to build a rule of law, promote the free press, assist in economic development, and provide refugee aid in the former Yugoslavia through "Project Bosnia" and "Operation Kosovo," and in building links with educational and governmental institutions in China and Mexico.
Professor Perritt is the author of more than 70 law review articles and 15 books on international relations and law, technology and law, and employment law, including the 730-page Law and the Information Superhighway. He served on President Clinton's Transition Team, working on telecommunications issues, and drafted principles for electronic dissemination of public information, which formed the core of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments adopted by Congress in 1996. During the Ford administration, he served on the White House staff and as deputy under secretary of labor.
Professor Perritt served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Policy Board of the National Research Council, and on a National Research Council committee on "Global Networks and Local Values." He was a member of the interprofessional team that evaluated the FBI's Carnivore system. He is a member of the bars of Virginia, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Economic Club, is on the board of directors of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and has served as secretary of the Section on Labor and Employment Law of the American Bar Association.
Professor Perritt earned his B.S. in engineering from MIT in 1966, a master's degree in management from MIT's Sloan School in 1970, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975.
Professor César F. Rosado Marzán (crosado@kentlaw.edu) earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University (Sociology); a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; a M.A., Princeton University; and a B.A., Haverford College. Professor Rosado Marzán joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2008 after practicing union-side and plaintiff-side labor and employment law in New York City and in his native Puerto Rico. He teaches Labor Law and International and Comparative Labor and Employment Law at Chicago-Kent.
Long impassioned by issues of class relations, labor organizing, and national self-determination, Professor Rosado Marzán discussed the controversial role of American labor unions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in his Ph.D. dissertation. While in law school, Professor Rosado Marzán also spent time as a visiting scholar at the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law in the Basque region of Spain, where he studied classic and contemporary law and society works that were written in or translated into Spanish. He was also a visiting scholar at Chicago-Kent during the 2007-08 academic year.
Professor Rosado Marzán actively participates in the Law and Society Association and is a member of the Puerto Rico Bar Association and the American Sociological Association. He has published scholarly work in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, The Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, La Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, and La Revista de Administración Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Professor Rosado Marzán's current research centers on the countervailing influences of U.S. institutional power and deep-seated socialist politics on Chilean labor law.
Professor Richard Warner (rwarner@kentlaw.edu) joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1990. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Contracts, Remedies, Jurisprudence, Internet Law, and E-Commerce Law and has published several articles and books on philosophical and legal topics.
Professor Warner was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar in 2002 and is the faculty director of Chicago-Kent’s Center for Law and Computers. He is the director of Chicago-Kent's Project Poland (www.kentlaw.edu/poland) and visiting foreign professor at University of Gdańsk, Poland, where is he also director of the School of American Law. He is also director of the School of American Law at the University of Wrocław, Poland. From 1994 to 1996, he was president of InterActive Computer Tutorials, a software company, and from 1998 to 2000, he was director of Building Businesses on the Web, an Illinois Institute of Technology executive education program concerning e-commerce.
Professor Warner's research concerns the regulation of business competition on the Internet and Internet security as well as the nature of human rights and their grounding in personal freedom. He has lectured on Internet security at the second United Nations Economic Commission for Europe workshop, "E-Regulations: E-Security and Knowledge Economy," in Geneva, Switzerland, and, at the invitation of the FBI, on global cybercrime before the Chicago Crime Commission. He was the principal investigator for "Using Education to Combat White Collar Crime," a U.S. State Department grant devoted to combating money laundering in Ukraine from 2000 to 2006. He is currently a member of the U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic and Financial Crimes Taskforce.
Professor Warner earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he served on the Southern California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and he received his B.A. (with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa) in English from Stanford University.
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