Santa Clara University Law School’s international and comparative law programs and activities have been brought together under the umbrella of the newly created Center for Global Law and Policy.
The Center’s director is Professor, and former Dean, Mack A. Player. While working together with Assistant Dean Elizabeth Powers, he will lead the law school’s growing, and increasingly significant, international law programs and activities. The Center will support and provide leadership in a broad range of important areas, including operating (and, as appropriate, strengthening) Santa Clara’s summer abroad programs, LLM program, student and faculty exchange programs (such as the EACLE program), and the visiting scholars program. The Center is also strategically positioned to support the Journal of International Law and international students’ organizations, including Santa Clara’s international moot court competition teams. Most importantly, the Center will work closely with faculty and key administrative leaders at the law school to strengthen its international and comparative law curriculum so it is able to respond to the rapidly changing world of global legal and policy issues.
Dean Powers commented, “It is such an exciting and important time for the School of Law to be expanding its relationships abroad – the practice of law is increasingly global, and we are fortunate to have had the foresight of leadership over the past two decades to position us so strongly in the foreign law arena.”
By its very nature, the Center for Global Law and Policy will replace, in a formal sense, the Institute for International and Comparative Law, but the work of the Institute will continue through several areas of the Center’s work.
According to Dean Donald J. Polden, “Professor Mack Player and Assistant Dean Elizabeth Powers have done a marvelous job of reformulating the various programs and activities in these areas under the supportive framework of the Center. They have articulated a vision for a more cohesive relationship between the many aspects of the law school’s longstanding commitment to the study of international and comparative law and policy.”
