Tel Aviv University

Faculty of Law Website

Program Description

Located in the heart of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University (TAU) Law Faculty is Israel's premier law school. It offers renowned faculty, vibrant student life, opportunities for extracurricular activities. Small by design, the faculty's impact on the legal world is measured by its accomplished graduates and its ongoing scholarship and outreach through numerous centers and projects.

Each year the Faculty offers about 20 courses in English, most of them concentrated in the spring semester. Permanent faculty members, all experienced in teaching courses in leading universities abroad, teach five of these courses. In addition, the faculty offers a variety of concentrated / intensive courses, taught in English by visiting professors from leading universities abroad. There is also a possibility of doing a two or three credit supervised research paper.

Exchange students may also participate in courses and activities of the Overseas Student Program (OSP), which is extracurricular. Exchange students may take one free course in the OSP, excluding the Hebrew language course. See www.tau.ac.il/overseas/frameset.html.

Sessional Dates

Dates vary with the Jewish calendar. In general:

Semester 1: October to January (Queen's Law students can only attend in the second semester, except that students able to complete their degree requirements a term early may seek permission to attend in the first semester).

Semester 2: February to June.

The Faculty tries to concentrate a significant number of courses in the first eight weeks of the spring semester to allow foreign students to be back home by mid-May.

Course Load

Students on exchange must successfully complete 12-14 credits at Tel Aviv University to obtain 15 transfer credits.