The program consists of two consecutive two-week sessions comprising a Human Rights Institute. Each of the courses taught during the program focusses on some aspect of human rights. Students attending both sessions receive a certificate of completion of studies at the Human Rights Institute. Courses are taught by Tulane professors and professors from Hebrew University Law School. All courses are conducted in English.
Additional trips are available to other points of interest in Israel and Jordan.
In Italy Tulane has sponsored a summer law program in Siena, Italy since 1989, in cooperation with the University of Siena. The Law Faculty at which classes are held was established in the fourteenth century. Italy is an especially appropriate venue for the study of comparative law, for if Roman law is the source of civil law, Roman law is essentially Italian. The historical underpinnings of modern civil law are stressed in almost all courses. Students in the Erasmus program at the University of Siena attend classes with American law students.