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
2026 International Traineeship Program_Application Guidelines
【Login Required】Video of the 2026 International Traineeship Program Information Session
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Please note that there is no audio during the first approximately 35 seconds of the video.
Inquiry: blc※j.u-tokyo.ac.jp＜※=＠＞
Reports
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)
