The Christian Legal Society and Regent University School of Law created the Institute for Christian Legal Studies, a ministry to law students and professors who desire to teach, study and write about the law from a Christian perspective. Regent Law Professor Michael Schutt serves as the director of ICLS. ICLS is a resource center for Christian law students and professors who desire to integrate biblical principles into the substance of the study and teaching of law.

LL.M. IN AMERICAN LEGAL STUDIES

American law is rapidly becoming the common currency of business transactions worldwide, and also of many other areas of law, policy, and government.  Thus, there is a significant demand by international lawyers for training in American law, and Regent Law School can meet that need.

This degree is designed for graduates of accredited institutions outside the U.S. who have already earned a J.D. equivalent law degree and want to pursue studies in American law.

SUMMER PROGRAM IN CHRISTIAN JURISPRUDENCE

The Summer Program in Christian Jurisprudence provides an excellent opportunity for Christian law students and lawyers to earn law school credit or CLE credit while studying topics of particular interest to a Christian lawyer. The program consists of a one-week modular course. The schedule permits time to take in Virginia's ample sun, surf and history.

SUMMER INTERNATIONAL LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
Strasbourg, France

This ABA-approved program will offer law school students an opportunity to examine international human rights issues from a Christian perspective. Fully accredited courses in Comparative Law, International Human Rights and Legal History will be taught by distinguished American scholars at the University of Strasbourg, which was founded in 1538.

Regent University School of Law continues to expand its international outreach.  The ABA has recently approved a new exciting summer opportunity for law students to study in the unique legal environment in Israel. 

SUMMER PROGRAM IN OXFORD, ENGLAND

This program will offer law school students an opportunity to study international law and politics at the Hertford College at Oxford University, the world’s oldest English-speaking university.  This program is sponsored by the Robertson School of Government and is fully approved for law credit.  Two courses will be offered:  Biblical and Qur’anic Law, taught by Dr. Joseph Kickasola and Anglo-American Politics and Law, taught by Dr. Daniel Dreisbach.

Dr. Joseph Kickasola (Ph.D., Brandeis) is an expert in Islamic and Biblical studies and regularly teaches in the Regent University Law School"; "Dr. Daniel Dreisbach (D.Phil., Oxford; J.D., Virginia) is a nationally-recognized legal historian and scholar in church-state studies.