Like many international ventures, the McGill Summer School is the product of a cooperative undertaking between several institutions. The Institutes of Comparative Law at Tulane and McGill and Albany Law School created the Summer School Program to allow U.S. law students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the evolution of transborder legal practice. The Summer School emphasizes the importance of comparative law and the unification of law as well as the professional development of law students and the modern requirements of law practice. The course offerings for the 1999 program are described below. The program consists of two sessions with a one-day examination period at the end of each session.
All courses are one-credit offerings.
There is a total of nine courses in the curriculum. Students may take a maximum of six credits during the two 2-week sessions or three credits per session. All classes are 65 minutes in length. The teaching approach ranges from lecture and dialogue to the use of simulation. Examinations are one hour in length.