Whether you seek to protect human rights or interpret health, tax or environmental policy, international law should play an increasingly important role in your decision-making. This concentration aims to improve your ability to understand, negotiate and litigate in the global community.
Students who earn the certificate for this concentration will learn critical and foundational concepts in international human rights, tax and criminal law, and will put theory into practice during experiences in places like Ireland and Nicaragua. To enrich this program and to provide a real world connection for your studies, we have forged collaborative partnerships with the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac, the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, the Oxford Human Rights Seminar, the United Nations and other important international partners.
Students develop literacy in the language of international relations that prepares them to advocate, negotiate, mediate and litigate globally as well as locally. Students put theory into practice by participating in our established international programs or by arranging an externship, which can include placement virtually anywhere in the world.
International experiences combined with externship opportunities provide a path to expansive career options.
Certificate recipients must earn 18 international law credits from the following categories of courses (not all courses are offered every year), including at least 11 credits from the following required and core courses.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required courses | ||
| LAWS 361 | International Law | 3 |
| LAWS 516 | International Business Trans. | 3 |
| Core courses | ||
| LAWS 360 | International Criminal Law | 3 |
| LAWS 363 | International Comparative Health Law | 2 |
| LAWS 429 | International Human Rights | 2 |
| LAWS 430 | International Trade | 3 |
| LAWS 477 | International Tax | 2 |
| LAWS 517 | Int'l Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict | 2 |
| LAWS 634 | Int'l Human Rights Law & Trans. Justice | 1-2 |
| Elective courses | ||
| Certificate recipients must earn the balance of their 18 credits from the following courses (not all of these courses are offered every year). In addition, a concentration co-director may approve, on an ad hoc basis, courses that, in a particular semester, have a significant international content. | ||
| LAWS 362 | National Security Law | 2-3 |
| LAWS 367 | Counterterrorism Law | 2 |
| LAWS 374 | Introduction to Mediation | 2 |
| LAWS 379 | Environmental Law | 3 |
| LAWS 428 | Negotiation | 2-3 |
| LAWS 437 | Computer and Internet Law | 2 |
| LAWS 515 | Alternative Dispute Resolution Exp. | 2-3 |
| LAWS 572 | Immigrat'n & Natural'n Law | 3 |
| Other university courses | ||
| You may apply toward the 18 credits you need to earn for the International Law and Policy concentration up to 6 credits earned in other Quinnipiac University departments. You must obtain the permission of the professor teaching the course, a concentration co-director, and the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs before enrolling in these courses. | ||
| EC 350 | International Economics | 3 |
| IB 201 | Globalization and International Business | 3 |
| IB 311 | International Marketing | 3 |
| IB 324 | Negotiating Internationally | 3 |
| PL 337 | Human Rights: Theory and Practice (PO 337) | 3 |
| PO 211 | Introduction to International Relations | 3 |
| PO 311 | Topics in International Relations | 3 |
| PO 331 | Topics in Comparative Government | 3 |
| PO 321 | Comparative Government | 3 |
| Modern Languages | ||
| You may apply up to 6 credits of modern language study toward your concentration requirements. | ||
Students must complete a paper of a quality that would satisfy the Advanced Writing Requirement and that addresses an international law topic approved by a concentration co-director. A concentration co-director must approve the topic in advance, unless the paper is written in connection with one of the listed required or core courses. A paper written for a journal may qualify if a concentration co-director approves the topic in advance.
Students who achieve a GPA of 3.2 or better in the coursework used for the concentration will receive the certificate for the concentration with honors.
A student may designate any course or paper as not counting toward the concentration, so long as it is not required for the concentration and the student meets the concentration requirements with another course or paper.
A concentration co-director and the associate dean for academic affairs may waive any requirements for the concentration (other than the GPA requirement), if they both agree to do so.
Our admissions team in the School of Law is here to answer any questions you may have and help you navigate the application process.