A unique feature of the Center for Global Law and Practice has long been the wide array of international extracurricular activities available to students at the College of Law. These programs extend the applied learning students undertake in the classroom into other practical arenas. For instance: 
- Membership in the International Law Society (ILS) is open to all students. As an affiliate of the International Law Students Association (ILSA), and with financial support from the Center for Global Law and Practice, ILS helps send students to ILSA conferences held in other cities such as New York City, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere across the U.S. Each year, Syracuse Law students spend part of their semester break in Miami to assist in the representation of Haitian refugees seeking asylum. Many of the activities of ILS are geared toward introducing first year students to the world of global law.
- One of the oldest student-edited international law reviews in the United States, the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a symposium celebrating thirty years of scholarship. Other symposium issues published by the Journal include the 1993 conference on legal harmonization in Europe and the 1995 session on international terrorism and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (an event particularly meaningful at Syracuse University due to our 35 undergraduates on board). Students compete to join the Journal at the end of their first year.
- The College of Law is well-known for the achievements of its Moot Court teams and
international law teams are prominent among them. The Jessup International Team competes regionally -- and if it wins in the region, in the world-wide Jessup Competition sponsored by ILSA and the American Society of International Law. Twelve first year students in the International section of Law Firm are selected for the First Year International Moot Court Team, which competes in Toronto against two other U.S. and 3 Canadian schools in a weekend event sponsored by the Canadian firm of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. University of Toronto and Syracuse were the two schools that originated this "moot" over fifteen years ago. In 2003 our "Toronto Team" took the prize for first place and in 2005 we took second place.
- Another international team flies to Vienna, Austria each spring for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Competition on International Sales of Goods, to which only a select number of U.S. law schools are invited. Syracuse's newest GLAP-sponsored student activity, the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Team, competes in Washington, DC in late May against teams from over a dozen Latin American countries, who argue in Spanish or Portuguese. See our team's memorial from the year 2000 competition.
Students interested in forming new teams to compete in other international law-related intercollegiate competitions (such as Space Law or the Niagara Competition with Canada) should contact the Center director, Professor Arzt.
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