Cox International Law Center

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their age.

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the School of Law had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv (Shevchenko) and helped establish the School’s American Common Law Center. Since 2013, the Common Law Center has provided academic services at Shevchenko, including professional workshops.

Experts have been fretting about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan for years. Is Taiwan really at risk? Why does Taiwan matter? 

On Dec. 2 at 9 a.m. and re-airing at 9 p.m., CWRU School of Law's “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show will discuss those questions with leading experts including:

A native of Sierra Leone who enrolled in CWRU School of Law “because of its strong international law programs and excellent reputation,” George Shadrack Kamanda graduated from our Law School in 2022 while simultaneously earning a Master’s Degree in Public International Law from Oxford University in the U.K.

Every year, a half-dozen third year law students take advantage of CWRU’s unique concurrent degree program to obtain a foreign LLM at one of our prestigious foreign partner universities in London, Madrid and Paris. The year abroad double counts as the third year at CWRU, earning the student both degrees in just three years.