Center for International Legal Education (CILE) at Pitt Law

Pitt Law’s Center for International Legal Education (CILE) advances legal education and the rule of law, both at Pitt Law and throughout the world. CILE • enhances the education of all Pitt Law students by supporting the study of international and comparative law • promotes individually tailored opportunities both within and outside the classroom to develop the competencies necessary to thrive in a globalized economy and legal market • advances the education of lawyers from throughout the world by bringing foreign-trained lawyers to Pitt Law for study and research • builds the foundations of rule of law in countries in transition by training their future lawyers and statespeople in our LLM and SJD degree programs, and by supporting initiatives to strengthen their institutions of law and legal education Without lawyers there cannot be rule of law, and without good legal education there cannot be the type of lawyers who will help establish and sustain the rule of law. CILE: Changing the world, one lawyer at a time