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Director's Welcome

Explosive growth of international trade and investment, coupled with the awareness that we exist in an interdependent world, has led lawyers and law students around the world to study both US and international law. Increasingly, English is the language of contracts, negotiations, and correspondence throughout the world. Principles of US law stand with international treaties and European Union law as the bases for business agreements and the resolution of disputes.

In recent years, more than 200 international LLM students have undertaken the study of US law at Golden Gate, concentrating in such US law specialties as corporations, immigration, labor and employment, litigation, and property law. Students in the LLM in United States Legal Studies Program attend JD and LLM classes with US law students. They gain practical experience in our clinical programs and prepare for US bar examinations.

Not surprisingly, the LLM in US Legal Studies Program also attracts US law graduates who wish to continue their legal education or specialize in a particular area of law. Students in US legal studies join other LLM students in environmental law, intellectual property law, international legal studies and taxation to make Golden Gate University an international center for graduate legal study.

At Golden Gate, we believe that providing lawyers from all nations with the chance to work together promotes greater mutual understanding. US students benefit as well from the presence of international students in the classroom. All perspectives are enriched when attorneys from other nations join our community.

The ethic we share at Golden Gate is that lawyering is an honorable profession. Those who serve the rule of law work together for the improvement of the lives of people of all nations.

Anthony J. Pagano
Director of the LLM in United States Legal Studies Program
and Professor of Law