Summer in Cambridge: The Curriculum
Selected Issues in Public International Law
(2 semester hours)
Prof. John A. Hopkins
Downing College, Cambridge University
Consideration of various discrete issues of public international law, including statehood, boundaries, the law of war, jurisdiction and state responsibility, and their relation to municipal law.
Legal History
(2 semester hours)
Prof. David J. Ibbetson
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
Development of legal institutions using historical perspective to help understand reasons for apparent anomalies in our legal system, such as distinctions between law and equity, crime and tort, and to aid decisions of law reform.
Comparative Public Law of U.S. and U.K.
(2 semester hours)
Prof. Mark C. Elliott
St. Catharine's College, Cambridge University
Examination and comparison of underlying principles of constitutional and administrative law in the U.S. and the U.K.
Law of the European Union
(2 semester hours)
Prof. Albertina Albors-Llorens
Girton College, Cambridge University
Prof. Catherine S. Barnard
Trinity College, Cambridge University
Survey of institutions of the EC, and examines substantive principles of EC law and their integration into the legal systems of member countries.
Selected Topics in Family Law
(2 semester hours)
Prof. Adrienne Volenik
University of Richmond School of Law
Examination of controversial current issues in family law including adoption,
abortion, legitimacy and paternity, domestic violence and child abuse not
covered in depth in Family Law.

