Research and Education Activities
International Traineeship Program
The Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo has been implementing the "International Traineeship Program" as part of the activities of the Global COE Program "Soft Law in the Interaction between the State and the Market: Forming Educational and Research Bases for the Formation of Private Order" since 2008, and has dispatched interns and graduate students as trainees to overseas law firms and international organizations with the aim of training internationally competitive lawyers.
Since the end of the Global COE Program in FY 2013, it has continued as a program of the Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law & Politics (Business Law Center). The "International Traineeship Program" is supported by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, McDermott Will & Emery, Van Bael & Bellis, and Bredin Prat.
Information on this year's Program
Application Guidelines
＊The information about International Traineeship Program (including the past reports) is viewable in paper media at room 202, Law School Building.
You can see the video "Information Session for International Traineeship Program 2025".
UTokyo Account is required
https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/rec/share/rAR9s0lsQI09igPXDIQaz1wUwWRSZ8tn6EfoKlOehrtpVkMmVlW54TSquw4vzZyG.SBMb-yiDZGRyZBuX
This video is available for viewing by 7 January 2025.
Inquiry: blc※j.u-tokyo.ac.jp＜※=＠＞
Past Destinations
- Clifford Chance (London)
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London)
- Reed Smith (London)
- Herbert Smith (Paris)
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Paris)
- McDermott Will & Emery (Paris)
- Davis Polk (New York)
- Freshfields (New York)
- Holland &Knight (New York)
- Herbert Smith (Brussels)
- McDermott Will & Emery (Brussels)
- Linklaters (Brussels)
- Baker & McKenzie (Antwerp, Brussels)
- NautaDutlih (Amsterdam)
- Arendt and Medernach (Luxembourg)
- Lenz & Staehelin (Geneva)
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Hamburg)
- Wong Partnership (Singapore)
- Rajah Tann (Singapore)
- King and Wood (Beijing)
- Kim & Chang (Seoul)
- Norton Rose Fulbright (Brussels)
