Your Career: Governance & Rule of Law

The Fletcher School offers a rigorous, yet flexible curriculum to let you tailor your graduate education to the international career of your choice. The following Fletcher courses can help you launch or advance a career in governance.

Explore Courses in Governance & Rule of Law

Advanced Seminar in Development and Conflict Resolution

Advanced Seminar in Project Evaluation and Learning

Analytic Frameworks in Public Policy Decisions

Civil-Military Relations in Post-Conflict Environments

Comparative Legal Systems

Comparative Politics

Corruption, Conflict and Peacebuilding

Data Analysis and Statistical Methods for Decision-making

Decision Making and Public Policy

Democracia y Reforma del Estado en América Latina

Democracy and State Reform in Latin America

Design and Monitoring of International Development and Peacebuilding

Development Aid in Practice

Development and Human Rights

Development Economics

Development Economics: Micro Perspectives

Econometric Impact Evaluation

Evaluation of Peacebuilding and Development for Practitioners and Donors

Foundations of Policy Analysis

Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting

International Human Rights Law

International Law in International Relations

The International Legal Order

International NGOs: Ethics and Management Practice

International Organizations

Law and Development

Leadership in Public and Private Sector Organizations

Political Economy of Development

The Politics and Processes of Reconciliation: Transitional Justice and Multicultural Citizenships

Public International Law

Nationalism, Self-Determination and Minority Rights

Rule of Law in Post Conflict Societies

Seminar on Actors in Global Governance

Seminar on Current Issues in Human Rights

Seminar on International Legal Aspects of Globalization

Seminar on Peace Operations

Seminar on Strategic Management in Privatizing and Deregulating Industries

Seminar on the Political Economy of Reform, Growth, and Equity

Transitional Justice

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Our Faculty

Louis Aucoin, Professor of Practice and Academic Director of the LLM Program

Louis Aucoin

Professor of Practice

Academic Director, LL.M.


Throughout 2012, as the UN's Deputy Special Representative for Rule of Law in the Republic of Liberia, Prof. Aucoin led the UN's efforts to reform the country's criminal justice system and helped to launch the constitutional reform process.



Our Alumni


Dalia Ziada

GMAP 2012

Egyptian Rights Activist, Blogger

A leading voice for change, Dalia Ziada has twice been honored as one of Newsweek's 150 Most Influential Women in the World (2011, 2012), named one of the Daily Beast's World's 17 Bravest Bloggers (2011), and cited among CNN's 8 Agents of Change in the Arab World (2012). Learn more about Dalia's work helping to shape democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt.