The program features two academic courses amounting to four credit hours. One, entitled Comparative Constitutional Law, is a 2-1/2 credit-hour course taught by Professor Farrah Raza, Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law from Pembroke College, Oxford. This class will be taught at Town Hall Oxford in Oxford and on the premises of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, located near the Law Courts in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of central London. The other course, entitled Comparative Legal Institutions, is a 1-1/2 credit-hour course, also taught by Professor Raza. This course will be taught at the Advocates Library, which is part of Parliament House in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Gray’s Inn.
The courses normally meet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Arrangements are made for visits to London legal sites such as Westminster Palace (the Houses of Parliament), the Law Courts, and the other Inns of Court. Gray’s Inn trains barristers, and formal interaction between our students and the Gray’s Inn student barristers includes dinners “in Hall” in the Inn’s 16th Century Great Hall.