Semester in Oxford Program

This 15-week program runs from January through April. The program is one of the few semester-long study abroad opportunities offered by American law schools. It is jointly conducted by The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the University of Georgia School of Law, and has been approved for accreditation by the American Bar Association.

We enroll 20 students each year, 10 from Ohio State and 10 from Georgia. The program is open to both second- and third-year law students. Preference is given to current students at Ohio State and Georgia.

Students take four courses and receive 12 semester hours of credit toward their JD degree. Three of the four courses address comparative or international law subjects, and are taught in a "traditional" small group classroom setting. The fourth course is a supervised research tutorial in the Oxford tradition, in which each student will write a lengthy research paper on a comparative or international law topic of their own choosing.

The research tutorial and one traditional format course are taught by members of the law faculty at Oxford. The other two traditional format courses will be taught by a law professor from Ohio State or Georgia, in alternating years. (i.e., an OSU professor in 2008, a Georgia professor in 2009, etc.)

Students are associate members of St Anne's College, one of the 40 colleges that make up the University of Oxford. They have access to dining, computer, library, sports, and all other student-related facilities at the College.

Students reside in a spacious Victorian house in North Oxford (see photos), within walking distance of St. Anne's and of the entire university complex. Students have library privileges at the University's Bodleian Library, one of the world's most famous research libraries.

For further information, contact:

Professor Camille Hébert
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
55 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-0190
hebert.2@osu.edu