The legal job market is rapidly internationalizing, with a growing need for attorneys skilled in areas such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution, anti-dumping and competition law, project finance, and global compliance. Most attorneys will encounter international issues even in their domestic practices, including immigration, international sales, and foreign property issues.
Students who study abroad gain firsthand experience firsthand how law is practiced overseas. Study abroad also teaches students new forms of legal reasoning, increases their intercultural legal competence, and, where applicable,strengthens their professional foreign language ability.
Temple Law is the only US law school with our own study abroad on our campuses in Rome and Tokyo, taught by main campus Temple Law faculty and well-recognized local adjuncts who have taught in these programs for years. In addition to the Summer Program in Rome and the Semester Abroad Program in Tokyo, Temple offers semester-long study abroad with our partner universities, including:
Bocconi University
Milan, Italy
Language(s) of Instruction: Italian, English
Fall semester: Late August/early September to late December
Spring Semester: unavailable
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
Language(s) of Instruction: Spanish, English
Fall semester: Mid-August to Early December
Spring semester: Early January to mid-May
Jindal Global Law School
Haryana, NCR of Delhi, India
Language(s) of Instruction: English
Fall semester: Early August to early December
Spring semester: Early February to early June
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Language(s) of Instruction: Mandarin Chinese, English
Fall semester: Late August to mid-December
Spring semester: unavailable
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
Language(s) of Instruction: English
Fall semester: Early September to mid-December
Spring semester: unavailable
Del Rosario University
Bogotá, Colombia
Language(s) of Instruction: Spanish, English
Fall semester: Late July to early December
Spring Semester: Late January to early June
Comillas Pontifical University
Madrid, Spain
Language(s) of Instruction: Spanish, English
Fall semester: Late August/Early September to Mid-December
Spring semester: unavailable
University of Lucerne
Lucerne, Switzerland
Language(s) of Instruction: English
Fall semester: Mid-September to mid-December
Spring semester: Mid-February to late May
University of Münster
Münster, Germany
Language(s) of Instruction: German, English
Fall semester: unavailable
Spring semester: Early April to late-July
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Language(s) of Instruction: Dutch, English
Fall semester: Late August/Early September to Mid-December
Spring semester: unavailable
Other Study Abroad Opportunities in China
Students with more advanced research interests in international and Chinese law may also study abroad with any of our partner schools in Shanghai (East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai University, and Shanghai University of Political Science and Law); Beijing (Beijing Forestry University and Capital University of Economics and Business); or other cities in China including Changsha (Central South University), Chongqing (Southwest University of Political Science and Law), Hangzhou (Zhejiang University), Jinhua (Zhejiang Normal University), Kunming (Yunnan University), Nanjing (Southeast University), Tianjin (Nankai University), Wenzhou (Wenzhou University), and Zhuhai (Beijing Normal University).