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.

Exchange Programs

Dates to Remember
Apr
15
Fall Application Deadline
Oct
01
Spring Application Deadline

In addition to the Summer Program in Rome and the Semester Abroad Program in Tokyo, the law school offers Temple J.D. students semester-long study abroad opportunities with our partner universities, including:

Bar-Ilan University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Language(s) of Instruction: Hebrew, English
Fall semester: Mid October to January
Spring semester: Early March to late June

Bocconi University
Milan, Italy  
Language(s) of Instruction: Italian, English
Fall semester: Late August/early September to late December
Spring Semester: unavailable

Comillas Pontifical University
Madrid, Spain
Language(s) of Instruction: Spanish, English
Fall semester: Late August/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

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

Riga Graduate School of Law
Riga, Latvia
Language(s) of Instruction: Latvian, English
Fall semester: Mid-August to early December
Spring semester: Mid-January to early June

Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Language(s) of Instruction: Mandarin Chinese, English
Semester Study abroad unavailable
Students may consider the post-JD Tsinghua Juris Master program

University College Cork
Cork, Ireland  
Language(s) of Instruction: English
Fall semester: 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

University of Pécs
Pécs, Hungary
Language(s) of Instruction: Hungarian, English
Fall semester: September to mid December
Spring semester: February to mid June

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 Foreign Studies University, 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).