The International Law and Organizations Program has an active speaker series, featuring policymakers, diplomats and international lawyers involved in current issues. The program occasionally sponsors a student trip to the United Nations in New York for high-level briefings, as well as small-group visits in Washington, D.C., to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments and to the U.S. State Department Legal Adviser’s Office. Students also have the opportunity to take part in an international academic field trip, contingent on available funding. Through generous support from the Starr Foundation, the program has organized trips to India (November 2009), Sri Lanka (March 2011) and Bangladesh (March 2012). The program plans to organize a trip to Thailand and Cambodia in Summer 2013.

Furthermore, students have access to the American Society of International Law and its annual Washington meeting and the American Bar Association Committee on Law and National Security, which hosts speakers on the law of armed conflict, arms control and counterterrorism. Students also have the opportunity to attend the International Law Weekend, an annual conference held in New York City, sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association. The United States Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, all in close proximity to SAIS's Washington campus, also present programs on the United Nations.