UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS SUMMER INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LL.M. LAW.UCDAVIS.EDU/GO/SUMMERLLM SUMMERS 2017-2019 AN 18-WEEK PROGRAM COMPLETED OVER TWO TO FIVE SUMMERS WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LL.M. PROGRAM The International Commercial Law LL.M. program offers a unique opportunity to study U.S. legal systems in the company of practicing attorneys from around the world. Global commerce spans national borders, yet borders indicate different legal systems, tax systems and regulatory environments. Doing business within the United States, or with U.S. companies, requires investors and legal advisers to have some knowledge of the U.S. legal, tax and regulatory systems. The course of study for the International Commercial Law LL.M. is designed to provide students with that background. We have developed a faculty of top scholars and teachers from UC Davis and other universities within the United States, plus eminent practitioners. The faculty will introduce you to the fundamental concepts involved in doing business with and within the United States. The coursework explores not only the law but also some of the financial and accounting aspects of international transactions. The opportunity to work with lawyers from many different regions of the world is an additional benefit of participating in the International Commercial Law program. Students develop professional contacts and friendships with fellow lawyers from countries in Europe, Asia, South America and other parts of the world. The program offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn about the legal systems of the world from its practitioners. We encourage you to apply! Daniel L. Simmons, J.D. Graduate Group Chair UC Davis School of Law Beth Greenwood, J.D. Associate Dean International Programs UC Davis School of Law [email protected] [email protected] AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSORTIUM The summer International Commercial THE GRADUATE SCHOOL THE ECONOMICS AND Law LL.M. program is an inter- OF MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURAL AND disciplinary graduate group degree, The UC Davis Graduate School of RESOURCE ECONOMICS which brings together a core group Management is widely recognized for DEPARTMENTS of faculty from different disciplines— having a flexible, innovative curriculum— The Economics Department within the law, management, economics and one that creatively blends management UC Davis College of Letters and Science agricultural economics. The following theory with practical application in an ranks #21 among U.S. Economics academic departments lend their interdisciplinary environment. departments (Research Papers in expertise and faculty to the program’s Economics, May 2015). All 31 faculty governance. The U.S. News & World Report college guide for 2016 ranked the UC Davis MBA members are active in research, and the THE SCHOOL OF LAW Program in the top 10 percent of MBA department maintains seminar programs throughout the year in macroeconomics/ The University of California, Davis programs in the United States. The quality international economics, economic School of Law is one of five law schools of the faculty of the Graduate School of history, microeconomic theory and in the University of California system Management is ranked 15th worldwide applied microeconomics. and is a premier institution for legal according to The Economist. The school education. It has an outstanding faculty, has constructed its distinctive program by The Department of Agricultural and renowned for its teaching and scholarly structuring the curriculum around the Resource Economics at UC Davis abilities, and a reputation for producing needs of its students, who will become consistently ranks among the top in exceptional lawyers in a highly tomorrow’s business leaders. Some of the agricultural and applied economics field. supportive learning atmosphere. program’s strengths include a managerial The QS World University Rankings places approach to the basic business disciplines, UC Davis #1 in Agriculture and Forestry, While the law school favors a generalist a curriculum that integrates the social, and the Chronicle of Higher Education rather than a specialist curriculum, it also political, economic and ethical aspects of ranks us #2. It is recognized nationally offers students some of the leading legal business into each functional area of and internationally for the quality of its thinkers in specialized fields. The UC management, and an emphasis on faculty and for the strength of its Davis School of Law is a top-tier law real-world examples of management undergraduate and graduate programs. school. principles from leading executives. The graduate program emphasizes state-of-the-art training in economic theory and quantitative methods, with specialty fields in agricultural marketing, econometrics, economic development, natural resource economics, production economics and international policy and trade. Graduates of this program hold positions of distinction in academia, JOIN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY government, international organizations and industry around the world. law.ucdavis.edu/go/summerllmlaw.ucdavis.edu/go/summerllm 1 SUMMER INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LL.M. PROGRAM The innovative summer International The International Commercial Law LL.M. commercial deals. Combined with their Commercial Law LL.M. is a part-time program is exceptional in combining many social experiences, participants degree program for foreign and both theory and practice, resulting in a form networks that further provide domestic lawyers and business and legal very well-rounded curriculum. In order to cultural, legal and business linkages well professionals. It is designed so that busy assure that participants have a into the future. Participants also professionals can earn a master’s degree fundamental understanding of the forces experience the challenge of engaging in by spending two to five consecutive that shape the legal, business and effective cross-cultural communication, summers in intense study, while economic environments of the which typifies the heart of international continuing their legal work for the international commercial world, key commercial transactions. In this way, remainder of the year. This program first courses are taught by professors from participants learn how to become examines the fundamentals of the U.S. the School of Law, Graduate School of effective cross-cultural facilitators for legal system with a special emphasis on Management and the departments of their clients. business and trade law. Participants then Economics and Agricultural and This program was developed as a undertake specialized courses with an Resource Economics. In addition, response to requests from international international perspective, such as outstanding practitioners from private practitioners who wanted a part-time intellectual property, business practice and government lawyers, degree program that provided in-depth associations, antitrust, tax, securities, economists, bankers, managers and knowledge in international commercial finance and comparative law. Examining business professionals act as adjunct transactions. These practitioners also the U.S. legal system in depth provides faculty to provide an applied perspective needed a short program format suitable participants with a model both for through lectures, simulations and case for international working professionals. comparative legal analysis and for studies. Participants visit a variety of Thus, a part-time degree program that understanding a legal system that is legal and business institutions to could be completed in two to five considered highly responsive to the reinforce their classroom experience. summers was created for those globalized marketplace. With these Finally, participants engage in a series of practitioners who can leave their practices foundations, participants also study simulations based on real-life legal and for short periods of intense study. For the global trading systems and the dynamic business case studies that allow them to last 27 years, the UC Davis School of financial and economic forces driving apply their knowledge. Law has offered summer law programs in economic internationalization and trade Professionals in the International the U.S. legal system and international liberalization. To apply their knowledge, Commercial Law LL.M. program become trade law to more than 3,000 legal participants also learn how to negotiate, part of an extraordinary cultural and professionals from more than 50 structure and draft an international joint social network created by bringing countries. The demand for and success venture. Finally, participants consider the sophisticated international practitioners of these summer programs indicated a effectiveness of various dispute together. Participants observe and study tremendous need for legal practitioners resolution systems, including litigation, legal and commercial concepts and to increase their knowledge and skills in arbitration and mediation. institutions, and negotiate and structure representing clients effectively in an international commercial environment. GAIN NEW PERSPECTIVES 2 [email protected] PROGRAM OF STUDY SAMPLE PROGRAM OF Students attend the summer COURSES 2017 – 2019 International Commercial Law LL.M. Year One (6 weeks during SUCCEED program by enrolling in six weeks of July and August, 2017) study each year for two to five consecutive years. Course dates for • Orientation in U.S.A. Law the 2017 summer program are from • Financing International Transactions July 9 to August