Over the last 30 years, students from over 50 countries have obtained graduate degrees at Tulane. Tulane provides as many opportunities to study international law as any law school in the United States. It offers approximately 80 internationally related courses during the fall, spring, and summer sessions in New Orleans and in seven foreign countries. Many of these courses deal specifically with aspects of international law, among them trade, finance, banking, human rights, taxation, environmental controls, the European Community, transnational litigation and arbitration, continental legal philosophy, and Roman law. Admiralty law, in which Tulane also specializes, affects all nations involved in international shipping transactions and is addressed in as many as 15 courses during the fall and spring semesters, and more in the summer programs abroad.
Civil codes govern most international business transactions.
Tulane offers at least 10 courses concentrating on civil law and civil codes every year. Many Tulane offerings at home and abroad are comparative in nature, systematically contrasting the law of the United States with the laws of various other countries in the areas of labor relations, sales, contracts, torts, criminal law, local government, evidence, land-use planning, civil procedure, family law, products liability, sex discrimination and employment, and freedom of expression. No other law school consistently offers such an array of courses enabling students to understand the similarities and differences among the world's legal systems. At least ten more members of Tulane's full-time faculty have strong teaching and research interests in these areas. Mr. Weinmann was Chief of Protocol of the United States Department of State and American Ambassador to Finland during the Bush administration and has just completed a term as Chair of the Board of Administrators of Tulane University.