International Transactions Clinic

The International Transactions Clinic (ITC) is the first of its kind. It aims to be a training ground for highly qualified lawyers who graduate already experienced at representing their clients’ interests in an increasingly globalized and complex world. 

Like other clinics, the ITC provides real-world experience for students working on real matters for real clients. Unlike other clinics now found in US law schools, however, the ITC combines an international and transaction focus.

Students participating in the ITC represent socially responsible investors that want to see their international investments provide both a positive social as well as financial return, providers of microfinance services and products that work at the base of the economic pyramid in emerging markets, and multinational corporations and other types of business enterprises that are conducting cross-border transactions, to name a few.

The ITC gives students an opportunity to exercise and grow skills that are critically important to their professional development as they enter into practice areas that involve international transactions. Under the supervision of faculty/professors, students learn drafting and negotiating skills necessary for conducting cross-border transactions, analyze ethical issues that can arise in international business, build skills at structuring and documenting investments in enterprises that primarily work in emerging markets, and deepen their understanding of international economic and financial policy.