International Commercial Litigation (2 credits)
An examination of the law and practice of international commercial litigation from the English perspective: jurisdiction and operation of the English Commercial Court; international rules for recognition and enforcement of judgments; interim relief; choice of law in commercial litigation; evidence problems in transnational disputes.
Instructor-Graham Virgo , M.A., Cambridge; B.C.L., Oxford. Fellow of Downing College; Lecturer, Cambridge Faculty of Law; Barrister of Lincoln's Inn.

Comparative Proof in Dispute Resolution Systems (2 credits)
The course will focus on comparative evidentiary principles in civil and criminal trials, selecting some basic well-established evidentiary principles (such as relevance and hearsay) and some more complex and evolving ones (such as expert testimony and confrontation). The course will focus on four substantive areas, two in the civil and two in the criminal trial context. For example, I will focus on different standards with regard to expert testimony in the civil context and different standards with regard to cross-examination and confrontation in the criminal context. The overall goal will be to assess if, and if so, how and to what extent, the different methods contribute to the overall process of truth-finding and, ultimately, justice.

Instructor: Penny J. White. Associate Professor of Law and the Interim Director of the University of Tennessee College of Law Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. Before joining UT in 2000, White served as a judge at every level of the Tennessee court system. She was the first woman Circuit Court Judge in the First Judicial District, the second woman judge on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and the youngest person to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Before taking the bench, White was an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow, at the Georgetown University Law Center, earning an LLM (Advocacy) from Georgetown in 1985. As a solo practitioner, she successfully argued Houston v. Lack before the United States Supreme Court. White teaches evidence, professional responsibility, media impact on justice, trial practice, and pretrial litigation at UT. She has published numerous articles on topics including evidence, capital punishment, ethics, and judicial independence. White is very involved in judicial education, having served as Chair of the Faculty Council, National Judicial College, and as consultant on the national Capital Litigation Improvement Initiative. She has authored three benchbooks for the Tennessee judiciary, a book on sentencing for judges, and two chapters in the Capital Case Benchbook produced for courts around the country.

Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law (2 credits)
An examination of refugee issues in the context of international political environments. Topics will include asylum reform, gender-based persecution deficiencies in international and domestic refugee law, and firm resettlement of displaced persons. With an interdisciplinary focus, students will consider the interplay among political, social, economic, cultural and psychological phenomena as refugees, governments of host countries, and international and nongovernmental organizations interact in the context of ongoing crises around the world. We will examine the treaties and instruments including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1967 United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status, and the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Instructor – Anna Williams Shavers. Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she teaches U.S. Gender Issues, International Gender Issues, Administrative Law, Immigration Law, and Refugee and Asylum Law. J.D. (cum laude), University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. She had her first teaching position at the University of Minnesota Law School as an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota where she started an Immigration Law Clinic. She currently servesas liaison for the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section to the Commission on Immigration and chair of that section's publication committee. She has previously served as Chair of the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Immigration Law, and Council Member of the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Section.

International Law (2 credits)
The basic introductory course in the field--the nature, scope, sources and jurisdiction of international law, the law of treaties, the doctrine of state responsibility, international dispute resolution and other topics.
Instructor-John Hopkins , M.A., LL.B., Cambridge. Fellow of DowningCollege; Lecturer, Cambridge Faculty of Law; Barrister and Master of the Bench of the MiddleTemple.

International Trade Law (2 credits)
This course will center on the framework for international trade developed by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the legal and institutional framework of the WTO, and will cover the underlying philosophy and introduce the major legal disciplines under the WTO. Particular attention will be paid to issues such as the intersection of trade and social concerns (e.g., environmental, labor and human rights), trade in intellectual property, and the impact of free trade on national sovereignty. The course will draw upon the content of several areas of substantive law found in multilateral and bilateral trade treaties and selected U.S. trade laws and policies. We will also examine th principal differences between WTO rules and the rules of NAFTA.

Instructor– Dr. Uché Ewelukwa, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law. Professor Ewelukwa teaches international trade law and intellectual property, and publishes in those fields. She has held visiting appointments at a number of law school schools in the U.S. and overseas. She graduated in the top 1% of her law class at the University of Nigeria, and has since earned the following degrees: Diploma in International and Comparative Human Rights Law, International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France; LL.M., International Business Law, University College, London; LL.M. and S.J.D., Harvard Law School.

Comparative Copyright Law (2 Credits)
This course will address selected issues in copyright law from a comparative perspective. Topics include: standards for authorship and ownership of copyrights in creative works; rights and remedies of copyright owners; fair use and other defenses; constitutional constraints; copyright in a digital environment; comparative copyright systems; and, copyright policy.

Instructor–Gary Myers, B.A., New York University; M.A., J.D., Duke University. Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law.