Center for Common Law Studies

The origins of the Center for Common Law Studies go back over 25 years, throughout which CCLS has worked in cooperation with leading professors from top U.S. law schools (including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, NYU, Penn and GW) as well as a globally-recognized Washington law institute to prepare and conduct specialized programs and seminars at the George Washington University Law School, attended by participants from over 70 countries. This has been accomplished by also working closely with many leading law firms, federal and state courts, and attorneys from agencies and departments of the U.S. government. The Center for Common Law Studies is now focused exclusively on deep-dive scholarship and programs relating to Anglo-American common law fundamentals--including historical and philosophical--and their modern-day implications and practical applications. The Center's unique common-law programs offer levels of analysis that are not generally available at most American or British law schools. Due to the Director's long-standing affiliation with the University of Michigan, most of the Center's activities and programs have now been transitioned out of the Washington DC area, thus avoiding the distraction of Washington politics and benefitting from the immense resources of the University of Michigan, one of the world's leading research universities.