2012 ORIENTATION IN THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM AND BUSINESS LAW

 Overview

The International Law Institute (ILI) is pleased to announce its 42nd Orientation in the U.S. Legal System education series, the first and longest running program of its kind. This program is ideal for foreign lawyers and professionals, arbitrators, law students and practitioners in general, preparing for graduate legal study in the U.S, and anyone whose job requires an understanding of the American legal system, as compared to the civil law tradition, or for anyone who deals with American and International clients and partners.  Our summer program has two components, each one designed to provide you with the best training of its kind: "Introduction to Legal English and Legal Research and Writing" and "Orientation in the U.S. Legal System and Business Law".

Course Outline

This program is designed to introduce attorneys to the American common law. Whether you deal with American corporate clients or American law in general, this program will benefit you significantly. Furthermore, the program will cover the role of common law in international and supranational organizations such as the WTO, the EU, and other similar institutions.

Strategic Benefits

• Basic knowledge of the institutions of the American legal system
• The use of case law and judicial precedent Exposure to major judicial doctrines central to American law  
• Enhancement of analytical and research skills needed in the study of law
• Better understanding of the role of the legal profession in the U.S.
• Opportunities to meet lawyers from the private and public sectors and the chance to observe the practice of law in court
• Writing and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System.
• Introduction to Legal English and Legal Research and partners.
• Our summer program has two components, each one designed to provide to the civil law tradition, or for anyone who deals with American and international clients

Class Topics

• The American Court System
•  Arbitration and American Courts: Enforcement
•  The American Court System: Civil Litigation and Jurisdiction of Courts
•  International Litigation: Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law
•  International Litigation: U.S. Civil Procedure Abroad; Other Proceedings
•  Commercial Contracts: Negotiation of Contracts with American Lawyers
•  American Torts in the International Setting
•  Products Liability Law in the U.S. Legal System
•  The U.S. Insurance System and Its Impact on Business Claims
•  SEC, Sarbanes-Oxley and Other Recent Legislation with International Effects on Corporations
•  Corporate Governance
•  Investor-State Arbitration
•  Intellectual Property

 Course Advisor

Professor Charles F. Abernathy of the Georgetown University Law Center has directed the Orientation program for the past seventeen years. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Professor Abernathy was a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. He has written casebooks on civil rights, constitutional litigation and on the law of equal employment opportunity. One of his more recent works is Law in the United States: Cases and Materials, which also serves as the basic text of the Orientation seminar.

See also:  Combination course: Legal English & Writing and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The International Law Institute is grateful to the following organizations for their support of the 
Orientation in the U.S. Legal System: