Introduction: One Hundred Years of International Law at Fordham University

In the past 100 years, the connotations of the term international have changed dramatically. The ideas we have of concepts such as international communication and global travel are dramatically different from what those concepts would have meant to our forebears - if they had even thought in such terms. But an international perspective is not new at Fordham Law School. The idea of the interconnectedness of our social and legal systems with those of other Nations is one of the foundational values of our school, and it has shaped our history since we opened our doors 100 years ago