In Summer 2011, Georgia State University College of Law and Tulane University Law School co-sponsored a summer legal study program called, "Law and International Development" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The program was administered by GSU's Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth and Tulane's Payson Center for International Development. The program was hosted by Fundaçao Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. The month-long program consisted of two separate sessions, each lasting two weeks. Each two week session was worth 3 credit hours. Course offerings included: Comparative Law of Employment Discrimination; Sustainable Development and Environmental Law; Social Equality and the Law: A Comparative Consideration of Race, Ethnicity and Class; Comparative Legal and Policy Responses to Climate Change: Comparative Metropolitan Growth Management Law; Law and Urban Policy in Brazil; Multi-National Enterprises: Environmental Policy, Planning and Practice.
