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International Law Fellows Network
Part of Salzburg Global's Peace & Justice Pillar and the Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule of Law
Our Purpose
The International Law Fellows Network, launched in 2025 in partnership with the International Bar Association, is designed to support rising leaders in international law.
It connects Fellows' own international legal skills – whether in economics and trade, human rights, environmental protections, criminal law, or international arbitration – to the fundamental question of our time: How to safeguard the rule of law as a core principle of free, fair, and just societies.
Why It Matters
With the experience to understand how their practice connects to larger legal issues, alongside the flexibility to shape their future professional development, this program allows Fellows to contemplate and maximize their contributions to the international legal sphere.
Through dialogue and reflection, Fellows strengthen the shared ideals of justice and rule of law that unite the global legal community in addressing the world’s most urgent challenges.
Our Approach
This program is specifically for lawyers at the most formative stage of their careers (i.e., with five to 10 years of legal practice).
Through our collaborative initiatives, Fellows:
- Build a global network of legal professionals dedicated to strengthening the rule of law in their respective fields.
- Develop innovative, multipronged solutions to address the complex threats facing justice and governance worldwide.
- Create and share resources that integrate rule of law principles more deeply into international legal practice.
In doing so, this program enables Fellows to develop shared principles and ideas and bring them back into their own legal practice.
Our Format
This program convenes approximately 30 associates and early-career leading international and transnational lawyers from the US, Europe, and other select countries.
During a three-day session at the Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Fellows engage in a variety of pedagogical approaches to build expertise and maximize ways in which every participant can share and learn.
It combines plenary discussion, curated conversations, and small working groups with both Fellows and senior legal experts.
The Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule of Law
The International Law Fellows Network is part of the Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule of Law, which was established in 2010 to honor the legacy of long-serving Chair of the Board and Washington “superlawyer” Lloyd N. Cutler.
Today, the Cutler Center also hosts the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program and the Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law in Washington, DC. The latter features a distinguished speaker on a vital legal issue of international interest.
Lloyd Cutler’s influence on people and institutions is felt in the United States and around the world. In his tradition and in his name, Salzburg Global continues to advance the Rule of Law.
With a mission, focus, and the global connections equal to Lloyd Cutler’s interests and concerns, and with the support of his friends and colleagues worldwide, his commitment to the Rule of Law will endure.
Lloyd N. Cutler (1917–2005), described as the last “superlawyer,” had a brilliant legal career. A founder of the Washington, DC law firm, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale), and White House Counsel to two US presidents, he fulfilled the calling of a public servant over his lifetime.
He was repeatedly nominated for and accepted appointments in Democratic and Republican administrations alongside a vast array of charitable, educational, and legal organizations.
Cutler was a long-time champion of Salzburg Global, serving as chair of its Board of Directors for a decade and as a Board Director for more than 20 years.
Believing passionately in the role that law plays in nation-building and in the ability of the law and legal experts to contribute solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, he attracted high court judges from around the world to Salzburg.
In addition, he was personally committed to ensuring that promising young international lawyers, academics, and jurists had access at Salzburg Global to a rich variety of judicial traditions, international legal institutions, and the international legal community at large.
Today, Salzburg Global remembers him not only for his intellectual brilliance, but also for his commitment to advancing respect for the law as a tool for resolving the great issues of our times.
The Cutler Lecture is held under the auspices of the Cutler Center for the Rule of Law and was inaugurated in 2010 to honor Washington “super lawyer” Lloyd N. Cutler (1917–2005). The Lecture focuses on international legal issues and the rule of law.
The Lecture is held annually in Washington, DC, in a discussion that underscores Salzburg Global’s roots in the United States and its enduring commitment to advancing the rule of law worldwide.
Former lecturers include Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google; Justice Richard J. Goldstone, Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; Dr. Fiona Hill, foreign affairs specialist and former deputy assistant to the U.S. President; and Hugh Verrier, Former Chair of White and Case LLP.
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