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Center for International Law and Policy

“New England Law’s Center for International Law and Policy has provided hundreds of legal memoranda and hundreds of thousands of pages of supporting research to international judges and other experts on international human rights bodies and international criminal courts.”

Professor John P. Cerone, director, Center for International Law and Policy (CILP)

Center for International Law and Policy
 

New England Law | Boston students have dozens of opportunities to integrate scholarship and advocacy in a global context.

Through the Center for International Law and Policy (CILP), students and faculty collaborate to research, analyze, and provide resource documents on topics ranging from CIA renditions in Europe to intergovernmental peacekeeper accountability and hate speech. Students also immerse themselves in the practice of international law during overseas externships. New England Law has well-established relationships with a number of international criminal courts and tribunals that make it possible for several students each semester to assist in war crimes prosecutions. New England Law is one of only a handful of law schools in the country to place students regularly with these institutions.


 

UN flags.
The 2010 conference, "Reviewing the UN Human Rights Council," featured a diverse range of international experts.

To promote the development of global legal work, the center hosts an annual international law conference in Boston dealing with issues such as the UN Human Rights Council, Chinese reunification and Taiwanese independence, global standards for competition laws, responding to rogue regimes, and the first decades of the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes tribunals.  CILP also hosts approximately 20 programs each year on pressing topics in international law.  Center activities enable students to gain front-line experience, which is an important step in building careers in international law and international policy.

Center projects and placements allow students to dive into this legal realm.

Political Violence Documentation and Analysis

Defense Counsel Project

U.S. Attitudes Toward Human Rights Treaty-bodies

Peacekeeper Accountability Project

Inter-state Complicity Project/CIA Renditions in Europe

The ECCC Training Project

Universal Jurisdiction Project

Externships

The CILP office is located at 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 350,  Boston, MA

Click here for directions.